The Journals tool provides a personal space for students to communicate privately with their teacher or reflect individually on their own learning. Usually, journals are private and can only be viewed and commented on by the student author and their teacher.
Students can make multiple entries for one journal topic. Journal entries can be assessed or used solely for communication. When used for assessment, grades can be awarded for individual entries or for the overall journal in its entirety.
In a graded journal, due dates can be added, to enable students to access the journal from the Grades pages, the calendar, and the activity stream. You can also add release conditions that students are required to meet before they can view a journal.
Both you and your students can create journal entries. Only instructors in the course can comment on students' private entries. For both staff and students, an icon appears next to the title to indicate new activity.
ADD SCREENSHOT
Setting up a Journal in Ultra
Steps:
if you wish to add a journal, navigate to the area of your course.
Click on the plus symbol and then create
Select the Journal option.
On the journal page, provide a prompt with the instructions and files the student will need to begin.
Otherwise, it says ‘your instructor has not added any instructions’
If you wish this to contribute to the student’s grade, you can tick grade.
can give it a due it.
Indicate whether it is points or percentage.
You can also do that and you can allow or not allow students to edit and delete entries or edit and delete comments.
Make it visible or set release conditions
Edit the title if you have not already done this
You can create as many journal entries as you want. You can also comment on journal entries. You can add a comment after your instructor comments on an entry to continue the conversation.
If you add a rubric for grading to a journal, students can view it before and after starting their submission.
📘 Instructions