After creating a journal in Blackboard, the instructor still has to make it available for students enrolled in the course. To achieve this, you’ll have to make a link to the journal within a content area. More information about the creation process of the journal itself can be found in the manual Creating a journal.

Creating a journal link in a content area:

1. In the content area, open the screen to create a journal link:
   
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2. Create a link to an existing journal in the content area. Select the desired journal, in the example below this is ‘Oceanography in focus’, now click ‘Next’ to continue.
   
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3. In the next screen, the link name is automatically filled in. You can adjust this if you wish. In the text editor, you may want to write a description of the Journal. In the Options section, you can also set certain options, as shown below:
   
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4. Select ‘Submit’. The link will now be visible in the content area.
   
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   The journal itself can be viewed/edited in ‘Journals’ in the Control Panel. This is not the link to the journal, which only generates the availability of the journal to the students, enrolled in the course.