The Blog & User Creater is designed specificially to save time and make it easy for educators to mass create student blogs.

Benefits of the Blog & User Creator include:

  1. Allows you to mass create blogs and users at the same time
  2. Lets you add yourself as a administrator when you create the blogs so you can easily manage all student blogs.
  3. Allows you to add them as a user to your blog while creating their new blog.  So they can be added as a user to the class blog and their own student blogs.

Here’s some tips for choosing usernames and blog URLs

Educators normally use the same name for both the student’s username and blog URL.  Keep them simple and easy for the student to remember.

Use a combination of  your student’s first name followed by numbers that might represent the year or class number.  For example, username misty09 and blog URL misty09.edublogs.org.

If you want your students to use the blog for their entire school then use a combination of letters and numbers that achieve this goal.

Creating blogs is as simple as:

1.  Go to Users > Blog & User Creator in your Dashboard

2.  Click on the Create Blogs tab

3.  Select their role on their new blog, their role on your blog, your role on their blog and select ‘Upgrade to give access to new premium features and other features’  (learn more about user role’s here)

3.  Add the usernames

  • Use only lowercase letters and numbers, with no spaces, in the username
  • The username is what they use to sign into the blog dashboard and is displayed on posts and comments they write. You can’t change a username,  however you can change what name is displayed.
  • If you are creating a new username and see ‘Sorry, that username already exists!’ it means you need to use a more unique username.  Remember there is over 1,000,000 users in Edublogs.org.  A simple solution for students is to use a combination of their first name, school initials and their room or year.

4.  Add their email address

  • You can’t create several usernames with the same email address because the system resets password based on email address. But you can trick it using the gmail+ method
  • Spam filters, especially strict ones for institutional email addresses, often block these activation emails. If unsure use free webmail accounts such as gmail, hotmail that don’t block these invitation emails.

5.  Add their password

  • Leave this blank if you want to let the system automatically create the password

6.  Add their blog urls

  • You can’t change a blog URL once a blog is created so choose carefully
7.  Add Blog title
  • This can be changed later in Settings > General

8.  Click Submit at the bottom of the page

  • Click on Add More if you want to create in batches more than 5 blogs.