From Language Center Technology Resources

Want to use a blog or wiki for your class? The easiest way is to do it in CourseWork!  

On your site, go to Site Info and select Edit tools. For a blog, turn on the Forums tool, and for a wiki, turn on the Wiki tool.

In order to comply with federal privacy guidelines, blogs and wikis for class work need to be private within the class by defailt.  For blogs, you can offer the students the option of creating their own public blog using one of the many free services available around the Internet.  The choice to go public has to be offered as an individual choice for each student, with the default to keep their work private in CourseWork.

Stanford ITS has made several Web 2.0 tools available to departments, including WordPress weblogs and Mediawiki wikis. However, for most pedagogical applications, the tools in CourseWork are the best choice. If you feel that you have a compelling reason to use a public wiki or blog, please contact me and we can discuss it.  Wikis and blogs in which only instructors post information are, of course, a different story - there are no privacy regulations surrounding what you post yourself. However, for wikis and blogs that just last the duration of a course (one quarter), the best option is still CourseWork, because we don't have to worry about what to do when the quarter ends.