About Blackboard Journals

Journals are personal spaces for students to communicate privately with you. Students can also use journals as a self-reflective tool. They can post their opinions, ideas, and concerns about the course, or discuss and analyze course-related materials.

You can create journal assignments that are broad and student-directed. Students can reflect on the learning process and document changes in their perceptions and attitudes. Students can describe the problems faced and how they solved them. You can also create instructor-directed journal entries that are more formal in nature. You can narrow the focus with a list of topics for discussion.

• Students may make unlimited entries
• Students and instructors can decide the number of items that appear per page
• Instructors have a count of graded journals

Note: At this time, if you copy only journals from an Original course to an Ultra course, the graded journals only appear in the gradebook, but you can’t edit the content or show them to students. Ungraded journals aren’t copied. We recommend a course export or archive to convert the journals that appear in Original’s content areas to Ultra.