Welcome to blog.ryerson.ca, Ryerson’s blog network.
Our network is run on WordPress multi-site, similarly to WordPress.com. This means that thousands of blogs (no exaggeration) are currently run on this network at this very moment. All of the blogs share common resources, such as themes and plugins that are selected and installed by our system administrators.
blog.ryerson.ca is open to ANY Ryerson staff, faculty or student for Ryerson teaching and learning use. We do not require that students get permission from their instructor in order to submit a request for a course blog, although we do recommend clearing it with your instructor first.
Need clarity on some of the WordPress-specific terminology? The WP Glossary may help!
Some uses for a blog at Ryerson:
- you want your students to use a blog for a course-related project
- you want students to post their work-in-progress for major assignments
- you want to include reflection as an activity in your course
- you want the students in your class to build a shared repository of course-related knowledge and resources
- you want to provide the students with course-related content outside of the LMS
blog.ryerson.ca may be ideal for you if:
- you hire temporary staff (possibly student staff) to maintain your website, and need some consistency in support
- you don’t require the ability to install your own themes and plugins, don’t require FTP access to the site and don’t require access to edit the PHP end of the site
- you don’t have the skills in-house to build your own WordPress site from scratch
- you don’t have the skills or time to maintain your WordPress installation (i.e. apply updates in a timely fashion)
- you don’t have the budget to hire people to do the above for you, or to cover the costs of the necessary server