If you’re a teacher, you have the ability to add private comments to a student’s post for feedback. The student in turn can also respond to those comments privately. This is possible as long as the student’s blog is connected to a class blog via My Class. Private comments and replies to private comments are…Continue Reading Add Private Comment To Student Posts
Category: Blogs
Submit Your Site To Google
Google needs to crawl and index your site once your privacy has been changed to “Allow Search Engines to index this site” in Settings > Reading before it appears in search results. This happens automatically but can take days or weeks. Verifying your site ownership in Google Search Console triggers Google to crawl and index…Continue Reading Submit Your Site To Google
Create student accounts without email addresses
Email address is optional for students on Edublogs.org when their accounts are created using: The Edublogs sign up page (the optional field is only visible if ‘Student’ is selected for ‘Which describes you best?’) My Class > Create Student blogs My Class > Create Student Users If the email field is left empty, the student account…Continue Reading Create student accounts without email addresses
Excerpts
Excerpts are a summary of your post content and are used to shorten your posts so that only the introduction or a summary of your post is displayed rather than the full post. Places where an excerpt might show, depending on your theme, include: Blog Page Search results Portfolio page Featured content on the homepage….Continue Reading Excerpts
User Reports
User reports allow you to run reports on all your users or a specific user. With user reports you can: Monitor your students progress by downloading lists of all the posts or comments made by every student or a specific student. Generate your student user list as a spreadsheet. Post Report 1. Go to Users >…Continue Reading User Reports
Convert Blog into book or PDF
There are a number of “blog-to-book services” that you can use to convert your blog into a book or PDF. This is handy for teachers, students, or parents who want to keep a printed portfolio, PDF, or book of the student’s work. View or print the PDF handout with the instructions to convert your blog…Continue Reading Convert Blog into book or PDF
Categories Widget
The Categories widget displays a list of the categories that you’ve assigned to published posts. It helps site visitors quickly see what topics you write about. Here’s what it looks like when it’s added to a sidebar: Only categories that have been assigned to publish posts are displayed in the widget. Refer to the adding categories support…Continue Reading Categories Widget
Set up My Class for managing student blogs or portfolios
My Class is the ultimate tool for managing, moderating, and monitoring student blogs or digital portfolios. My Class allows you to manage all your student blogs or portfolios from a single dashboard by connecting them to a class, course, or year-level site. You have complete control of their privacy, can choose if students are allowed…Continue Reading Set up My Class for managing student blogs or portfolios
Statistics
Interested in how many people are reading your blog? Want to know what the most popular blog post you wrote is? On your statistics page you can easily find this and much more information, all from inside your dashboard under Dashboard > Statistics. Statistics is an Edublogs Pro and CampusPress feature only. The data is sourced…Continue Reading Statistics
Table of Contents Plugin
The Table of Contents Plugin is designed to help you add tables of contents to posts, pages and sidebars. Once you’ve activated the Table of Contents plugin in Plugins > All it automatically adds a table of content before the first heading on any page with four or more headings. Here’s an example of the default…Continue Reading Table of Contents Plugin