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This documents the major features of the blogwow tool. The goal of this page is to explain what the tool actually does and avoid issues related to assumptions about what a blog is.
Features
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- The Blog
- The main page for the app includes a list of all the blogs in the current site
- Users create a blog in a Sakai site automatically by simply access the blog tool
- Permissions control whether the blog is created or not
- Users can edit the profile of each blog to include information about themselves
- Profiles can contain html and are creating using the richtext editor
- User can also provide an image URL, this image will be displayed with the profile text
- This text and image will appear on the right hand side of the view which displays their blog entries
- Entries
- Users can create blog entries in their own blog
- Entries can contain html and are creating using the richtext editor
- Text entered is run through a cleaner to remove harmful tags
- Blog entries can be public, group visible, instructor only, and private
- Entries store the time/date they are created
- Entries can contain html and are creating using the richtext editor
- Entries are only shown if the user has permission to view them
- The list of entries pages so that a limited number appear at once
- Users can create blog entries in their own blog
- Comments
- Plain text comments can be made on entries
- All text is escaped so no harmful tags can be used
- Comment can be made by authorized Sakai users, public comments not currently allowed
- Comments can be removed by a site administrator with appropriate permissions
- Plain text comments can be made on entries
- RSS feeds
- Links for RSS feeds are available on the main page with the list of blogs
- RSS includes links back to the blog and to the individual entries
- Public (anonymous) access to RSS feeds for individual blogs or all blogs for a site is provided
- Human readable URLs are
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- Links for RSS feeds are available on the main page with the list of blogs
- Sakai
- One click access from the main page for all actions
- Uses RSF so templates are easy to customize
- Fine grained permissions control in Sakai
- There are 7 permissions available for controlling access to various parts of the blog (creating entries, creating comments, etc.)
- All pages fully internationalized (I18n)