minis Become Editors not Administrators March 8, 2008
Posted by Al Upton in miniLegends.Tags: Al Upton, dashboard, Edublogs, miniLegends, protection
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A test … as I’ve noticed a couple of ‘password change’ requests … all miniLegends have been changed to become Editors of their own blogs.
The features they have access to are in bold below.
• Dashboard - Dashboard, Promote Your Blog
• Write - Write Post, Write Page, Write Tweet
• Manage - Posts, Pages, Uploads, Categories, Import, Export, Subscriptions
• Comments - Comments, Awaiting Moderation (0), Akismet Spam (0)
• Blogroll - Manage Blogroll, Add Link, Import Links, Categories
• Presentation - Themes, Widgets, Current Theme Options
• Plugins - Plugins, Google Analytics, Akismet Configuration
• Users - Authors & Users, Your Profile, Your Avatar, Blog & User Creator, Invites
• Options - General, Writing, Reading, Discussion, Privacy, Delete Blog, FeedBurner, Blog Avatar, Blog Type, Forums, Twitter Tools, Inline Google Maps 2, Subscribe to Comments, AMP, Contact Form (Editors are greeted by “nice try”)
• Upgrades - Upgrades, Credits, History
I also unchecked ‘Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.)’… who knows what someone might put in their post when they link to you?
Keep “safe and savvy”.
What it does mean is that students can’t change their passwords. They also can’t delete or change my editorial status from administrator.
I would still like a way for all posts to be sent to me although I do check them regularly. Currently I am the only administrator of their blogs.
I’m really in two minds about this. What do others think?
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Hi Al
how do you find the individual student pages on the class blog working for you? I’m trying to go the one-blog/individual-user page route with mine.
Great to see the Minis back in 08!
Al, the set up as you describe it is the way I am setting up the LA20 blogs. Some want to change passwords but then that information will slip from my grasp. I am using a gmail account to have all comment moderation come my way and used the name+user feature so all passwords are in that account. So far, so good. And I poached your mentor idea and re-badged for my own purposes.
Thanks for the speedy response guys.
Kate: You won’t find the individual pages until you create them.
Create a new page (use the link on your dashboard or ‘Write’>’Write Page’), Title = ‘Our Blogs’ (or similar), type a few words eg “In the right hand sidebar are our individual pages”>Publish … Create a new page, Title = student’s first name eg Alphonso (then Beata, Chantrice etc)>Open ‘Page Parent’>select ‘Our Blogs’>Publish … and so on through the alphabet. Great to see Kate Foy back ‘Spinning a Learning Web’
Graham: Yeah its the unfortunate way to go. Although I’ve never had trouble before this year I have indications of passwords being changed and so need to retain control. The gmail trick works well but have you had a look at the ‘Blog & User Creator’ under ‘Users’ in your dashboard? [It may only be an Edublogs Supporter feature … in which case it’s well worth the money. These things always seem to come along after you’ve done the hard yard … hopefully its not too late for you.]
“… create multiple users and blogs and add yourself as admin to them …You can create up to 15 different users and blogs at one time and new users will be emailed their usernames and passwords automatically. If you need more than 15 please simply process this form and then start again.”
If anyone uses this please let me know how you go. Cheers, Al
Hi Al
Oops! I mean how do you find them working for you as in are you satisfied with this arrangement? Not being able to post on these pages means a constant editing and adding to individual pages through the ‘manage’ tab. Just wondered how your students were coping?
(Sorry for the confused expression!)
Sorry Kate, it looks like I couldn’t focus right throught to the emd of your first sentence! Yes it is clear to me now, thanks.
I like having all the posts on one page and the individual pages (with comments) easily visible - eg in this Regulus theme. I have tried the different techniques I mention in my previous posts but prefer my students to have their own blogs with as much freedom (that I can monitor) as possible. A blend of student safety and autonomy I suppose. Having all student pages on the one blog means they are restricted to single pages with comments on the one page only. It would be handy to have an edit page feature on each page once we are logged in - the same as we have for posts. At this early stage my students are just communicating through their post page. Later they will add pages of personal interest and for projects etc. - to their own blogs. I am excited to add some of the new Edublog features to our class blog eg forums. My kids are 8 and 9 year olds and handle the manage posts and pages quite well. The alternative for you would be the ‘Blog & User Creator’ feature I mentioned above to Graham. have fun and please let me know how you go. Cheers, Al
Hi Al I am good today and I am happy with my
Hi Al I am good today and I am happy with my blog and I like my blog and I am a good reader and I hop you have a good day
I like sending comments to mentors and having mentors.I like my face on my blog.having a blog is fun.I like having a clustermap.
Hi, Al
It’s to bad were’re not going to be Administraters any more.
To be honest I don’t feel comfortable with sharing our work online.
But i really like doing blogging and cammunicating. But the best thing about it is we actually get to cammunicate with people we do and don’t know like…….Buddies, Family, Friends, Mentors.
I really love getting comments and replying to them.
Highest Regards, Paige
Hi Al
Im happy for my face to be on the online.Im happy to show anythink
to be happy with. Well I woud like to show my football skils
if you want.Im fine with my family,budde,mentors and friends.
I love the vokes and the cluster maps there some of my things
that I like on my blog
Cheers malcolm
I like sending coments and reseving coments because it is fun. I Iove the clustermaps they are cool, I think I have six.
how I feel about bloging
I feel greatful of my self how I put efurt into it
it makes it more fun writing
it’s good learning
I show how I look like
I like how you show how you learn
I like the cluster map
how you comunicat
how your buddies ,family ,mentors and freinds help you learn
you get new friends
glad about how you can put picturs and post’s
how people help you
how people leave coments
I have a kind mentor
how you can comunicat with people you dont know
hi Al I think its cool
i like being a editer.i dont like that we cant change our blogs style 
. it doesent matter about that at least were going safe and savvy! i like how they made up crazy hair day but can we take photos. i realy like how you teach us! can we write tweet.
i dont like book work cause we might have to send it to scotland or somthing i realy think book work is boring.
when can we put some pictures of us and our art-work i think i might like to learn cursive for letters to my mentors. my mentor gail hasent talked to me much i only have one comment from her
bye Al from Ash
I love blogging I would not rather youse books than blogs.
hi al i realy like having a blog because they are fun.
and i really like writing becouse it is fun.
i like communicate becouse i get to talk to people that i do not no .and i can commuincate with my friends & famliy.
i would like to show a picter of me at crazy hair
Hi Al I like blogging and I feel great with people going on my blog and I love my pics going on my blog . And my mentors are great we have a iot in comen
how we comunicat on line blog
how I feel greaful about how much efert I put into it
Hi Al
I will show somethink if
you want me to . I will show any think
hi Al
I like Bloging because we have lot’s of fun, and thers always to do. we can chat By emailing each uther on EdMail. we love geting red dots on our clustrmaps. I like Graham as my mentor and I love everything we do.
hi al
i love the blogs they are cool.
it is fun. it gifes something to do.
and i like to meet other people on my blog.
hi Al
I wont you to no that I am realy good at football,Cricket and sport.
I love chocolat. I love having a blog.I have a fish its name is bungiy.
I fill good about haveing blogs and talking to pepole
i don’t know.I like
Hi Al
I wont you to no I am realy good at Football,Cricket and sport.
I like having blogs.
I like animals i have a turtle and a bearded dragon.
Hi Al, its realy cool having a blog.
I like it how we get to commnicate to people from all over the world. You’ve realy made the computer more fun!!!
My mentors have realy helped me with lots of things. I like everything we get to do on my blog.
Hi Al I realy like having a blog.It make’s writing ,more fun then ever.
I defenetly liked doing themes and all that.It’s good having photos on
our blogs I mean who dosent.
Iwould like to show a picter of me at crazy hair day.
byebye Kayla
Hi Al I realy like having a blog because they are cool.They make writing fun then they ever did.
Happy for other people for helping us with our blogs_mentor,buddise.
I would like to show a picter of me at crazy hair day.
you can commuincate with others