Archive for August, 2009
Navigating To Different Blog Dashboards Inside Your Account
This post written by Sue Waters in Monday,August 31st 2009 Comments Off
All the blogs you have attached to your username are listed on your My Blogs page.
To access the dashboard of a different blog attached to your username you simply click on My Blogs and the Dashboard link below the name of appropriate blog. This takes ...read more»
Using Blog & User Creator to create student blogs
This post written by Sue Waters in Monday,August 31st 2009 Comments Off
The Blog & User Creater is designed specificially to save time and make it easy for educators to mass create student blogs in batches of up to 15 users. This feature is available only on Edublogs supporters and Edublogs Campus blogs.
Benefits of ...read more»
Filed under: Workinng With Blogs
Tags: Blog & User Creator
Creating student blogs using the Signup page
This post written by Sue Waters in Monday,August 31st 2009 Comments Off
There are two main ways to create blogs for your students:
Using the Edublogs signup page - free Edublogs Blogs
Using the Blog & User Creator – Edublogs supporters and Edublogs Campus blogs only
If you are a free Edublogs blog user you need to follow the instructions ...read more»
Creating new blogs for your own use
This post written by Sue Waters in Friday,August 28th 2009 Comments Off
All blogs you create for your own use should always be attached to the same username because it means you'll be able to navigate between the dashboards of your blogs without needing to log out of one blog and log into the other blog.
It's ...read more»
Tips for creating new blogs
This post written by Sue Waters in Friday,August 28th 2009 Comments Off
The most common reasons why you would want to create new blogs include:
You want to blog on a different topic;
You want your students to have their own blogs
These tips will help you avoid common blog creation problems:
Use only lowercase letters and numbers in ...read more»
Filed under: Workinng With Blogs
Tags: Create new blog
Changing or Deleting A Username
This post written by Sue Waters in Tuesday,August 25th 2009 Comments Off
There is no way to delete a username from Edublogs because deleting usernames can cause problems to our system. If you no longer wish to use Edublogs, simply leave your username account inactive. There are no security risks associated with this policy and your information ...read more»
Filed under: Managing users and their roles
Tags: Delete Username
Changing your personal settings in Your Profile
This post written by Sue Waters in Tuesday,August 25th 2009 Comments Off
You can customise global settings for your username in the Your Profile screen. Any changes to these settings apply to all blogs accessed with that username.
Your user profile is quickly accessed in your dashboard via the Users > Your Profile menu option. ...read more»
Filed under: Managing users and their roles
Tags: display name, HTML editor, nickname, visual editor, Your Profile
Changing your username password or email address
This post written by Sue Waters in Monday,August 24th 2009 Comments Off
The password and email address attached to your username can be changed at any time uisng the Your Profile screen.
Changing Your Password
Go to Users > Your Profile in your blog dashboard
Scroll to the bottom of the page to the New Password area
Type your ...read more»
User Roles and Changing a User’s role
This post written by Sue Waters in Monday,August 24th 2009 Comments Off
When you set up a blog with multiple users you have the ability to assign and control what other users can do in the blog depending on the tasks you want each user to be responsible for.
You need to consider carefully what role you assign ...read more»
Filed under: Managing users and their roles
Tags: Administrator, Author, Changing yuser role, Contributor, Editor, Subscriber, User, Users
Creating and Adding Users To A Blog
This post written by Sue Waters in Monday,August 24th 2009 Comments Off
You need to add users to a blog when 1) You want other people to write posts on the blog or 2) Your blog is private and is only visible to registered subscribers
PLEASE NOTE: If you only want your students to comment on posts ...read more»
