Blackboard comes up a little short

I wanted to use the blogging tool available in Blackboard for this blog. I even started out using it for my first entry, but when I tried to link to the blog from the course menu, it wasn't possible. I don't think it will get read as much if it's buried inside a folder and since it's very simple to link to an external site from the Blackboard menu, I set up another blog using Blogger in about 3 minutes and I'm all set. One negative there is that with the Blackboard blog tool, it would be easier for students to add comments. With Blogger, they will have to log in in order to do that.