Current workflow for exercises with blogs is not satisfying. User has to make many clicks and can easily get lost on the way. The new page editor in the tool slate made this problem somehow worse.

Here is the current workflow:

1. User opens exercise’s *Assignments* tab.
2. User opens accordeon that contains the blog exercise.
3. User clicks on "Start Assignment".

4. ==First issue: Accordeon is closed after page reload. User gets stuck.==
5. User has to open accordeon again.
6. User clicks on "Create Blog".

7. User has to select the resource folder to add the blog to. (==This is medium-confusing if you have never been to My Resources!==)

8. User returns to *Assignments* tab. A confirmation message is shown.

9. User ONCE MORE has to open the accordeon (==see step 4==).
10. User clicks on the title of the assignment blog. ==Why not open the blog right away? Even if this is not a good idea, this whole presentation could be more engaging: "Click here to edit your blog.==

11. ILIAS opens blog. ==This view has very confusing messaging!==

•   You can "Finalize and Submit Blog", which is the primary button here. KS Purpose for primary button is: "The primary button indicates the most important action on a screen." But for the user, this button is in NO WAY the most important action!
• The exercise-related information in the Tool Slate can be helpful. But its presentation is quite in-your-face. User would care most of all about the work instructions. The Assignment and the Schedule are of much lower importance to her!
• The main content area gives the user an option to add a "Title" and "Add Posting". This is the first time, the term "Posting" is shown to a user. But didn’t she want to submit a blog? What is the difference? When does she even see that she is done??

12. User invents a Title and clicks "Add Posting".
13. ILIAS opens ==another screen with confusing messaging.==

• In the slate, the editor offers to "Finish Editing". ==Does this mean content is saved?==
• In the main content area, ILIAS informs: =="The posting is withdrawn and no longer published." Why?? What did the user do to withdraw anything?==

16. The user clicks on the primary button and ILIAS submits the post.
17. But: The primary button is STILL SHOWN!

• Even though it was supposed to finalize something, ==it is still usable!== I understand why this is the case, but it is super-confusing!
• The confirmation message for hitting that button is not shown where the button is, but in the main cintent area: "The Blog has been submitted." ==This is too far away.==

18. So what now? How to get out of here???
19. User clicks on "Back" tab in the blog.
20. ==ILIAS does not go BACK at all! It opens the "My Resources" tab, where the blog is "(meta)physically" located. But this has NOTHING to do with the exercise the user tries to submit!==
21. She clicks again "Finalize and Submit", hoping it will help., But it won’t.
22. She clicks on the Assignment Title and finally gets back to where she started.

During the discussion of an improvement of this situation, we did not find a single user of this feature. Hence, my new suggestion is to abandon  the submission of blog exercises in ILIAS 8.