Thread:John Mackenzie Burke/@comment-5438725-20120826223831/@comment-3030984-20120827124142

Yes, this does make sense to me.

As you may have noticed, each user has their own user profile page, as well as a Message Wall and blog area. Writing a message on your own message wall doesn't let anyone else know what is going on, unless they themselves check the page.

My suggestion would be to get users (I assume your students have their own accounts) to post blogs. The most recent of these would be able to be viewed at Blog:Recent posts on your wiki. This would also allow users to comment on the blogs if they so wish.