How do I request accounts and individual blogs for my students?

See: Requesting a Class blog with student contributors or affiliated student blogs

Please complete the batch create spreadsheet (Iink) (Click File, Download to download the spreadsheet, complete the spreadsheet and save) and upload the spreadsheet to the Service Desk (link). Remember to add all the staff who require access to these blogs along with the role that they should have.

By default all blogs are set with the privacy setting Only registered users of this blog are able to view it. The blog Administrator(s) can change this from the Dashboard. Click on the Settings menu and select Privacy. From this screen the appropriate privacy setting can be selected and click Save changes.

For an individual student blog, which is not assessed, the student is typically the Administrator (can do everything including complete power over posts, pages, plugins, comments, choice of themes, imports, settings and assign user roles) and tutors are subscribers (can view posts and comments and add comments). For a full breakdown of the roles please see the Edublogs guidance on roles.

For an assessed blog it is recommended to make students Editors (are able to publish posts/pages, manage posts/pages, upload files, moderate comments as well as manage other people’s posts/pages, but are not able to assign and remove user roles)