As of October 30, 2009, you have 100 MB of space allotted to your blog. This increased quota, the previous quota was 50 MB, will allow you to store more images, videos, and other files with your blog. Enjoy! Faculty can contact the OIT Help Desk for information about increasing their quota beyond 100 MB. More on…
Tag: UMass Blogs
TeachOIT Podcast #3: UDrive and UMass Blogs
In the second of our two-part podcast series “Catching Up with Emerging Technologies” Tony and Fred discuss two OIT services: the online file storage tool UDrive, and the Blogs at UMass Amherst service. What are the best ways to use these tools and how are instructors using them? Listen and find out! Learn more: UDrive: easy-to-use,…
Tracking Visitors to your Blog with Google Analyitcs
If you’ve set up a UMass Blog to document your research or teaching, you might be interested to know who your visitors are. The days of the simple hit counter are gone, replaced with Google Analytics, a Google tool that tracks a wealth of data about where your visitors are coming from, which sections of your blog they are reading, and…
Blogs as Coursesites: Spring 2009
Tried building a web site from scratch but never quite finished? Never have the time to slog through programs like Dreamweaver to update your existing site? Maybe setting up a blog is the answer. Many instructors are finding blogs to be a friendlier alternative to building a traditional course website. The UMass Blogs service provides a space…
Major Upgrade to Blogs at UMass Amherst Planned for Jan. 7
The Office of Information Technologies (OIT) will be performing a major upgrade to our Blogs at UMass Amherst service on Wednesday, January 7, 2009. The new version of Blogs comes with big improvements to the software’s interface and a revised list of supported themes, widgets, and plugins. more…
UMass Blogs Activity
Nick and Michele just finished pulling together some data on the use of the UMass Blogs service for the Fall semester: 72 instructors have attended one of our recent blogging workshops! Of the almost 300 blogs that have been worked on this semester, there are: 54 course blogs (see some examples) 11 faculty professional/research blogs…
Blogs as Coursesites: Fall 2008 Course Blogs
Tried building a web site from scratch but never quite finished? Never have the time to slog through programs like Dreamweaver to update your existing site? Maybe setting up a blog is the answer. Many instructors are finding blogs to be a friendlier alternative to building a traditional course website. The UMass Blogs service provides…
Getting Started with Blogs in September
We have added a “Getting Started with Blogs” workshop to our September workshop list. It is scheduled for Wednesday September 17th 1:20-3:20. If you are looking for an easy way to build a web presence for a course or your research the UMass Blogs tool is worth exploring! Registration is online at: http://www.umass.edu/accoprod/workshop/register.php
Blogs for Courses
This February, OIT introduced a Blogging service to the campus in a low-key beta release (meaning that we didn’t advertise it and we tell all users that policies and features may change by the time it is officially released.) In the first month we had over 500 blogs created. Most seem to be “hello world”…