We’ve got some big plans for Edublogs.org for 2010 — including cool new features.
So to kick start the New Year we’ve just installed these new features on Edublogs!
Add New Users
This is a nice simple feature, but very powerful tool for creating and adding new users to your blog in batches of up to 15 users.
This is the fastest way to add students quickly to your class blog — if they don’t have a username.
Off course this means there’s now four tools that create usernames slightly differently so here’s a quick summary of their differences.
Limiting who see comments in dashboard
You told us you didn’t want students who are contributors or authors seeing unapproved or spam comments — to prevent younger students from seeing inappropriate comments.
So we’ve:
- Removed the Recent Comments module from the dashboard of contributors and authors
- Made it so they can only see approved comments on their comments page
Now they can’t see any comment until you’ve approved it!
Giving Contributors ability to upload media
You want to moderate all student posts by making them a contributor but that’s been annoying you because contributors can’t upload media such as images, videos….
Problem solved!
We’ve adjusted the role of contributors so they can now upload their own media and you can review their posts before publishing them!
My Blogs
Sick of the endless searching for your students dashboard on your My Blogs page?
We heard your pain….and transformed your one column into four!
Clicking That Pesky File URL
Been caught out by remembering to click on File URL before Insert into Post when you’ve been uploading audio, video etc files to your posts?
Yes it’s driven us crazy too so we’ve done a quick patch to solve the problem….now you don’t need to remember as it does it for you!
Free Trial Of Edublogs Campus
Heaps of schools, districts and Universities are taking advantage of our 30 Day free trial of Edublogs Campus, get in touch with us any time to start yours!
Help!! People are reporting that they are unable to post comments on my blog: http://literarylitebookclub.edublogs.org. I have looked through the forums, but can’t find a solution.
Sue, can you tell me what’s going on and how I fix it? Thanks!
I can’t see any settings on your blog which would be causing a problem. Can you tell me is it a specific post they are having trouble writing comments on?
Thank you so much for those four columns in My Blogs. Next step is to sort them so most used are at the top? Maybe in the next upgrade.
Will be creating another 70 or so in the next few weeks getting me to nearly 300.
What do I need to do to sort the comments so that the most recent comment is first?
Thanks
@Miss W I’m not sure if it could sort most used at the top and to be honest once you are talking 300 student blogs you are definitely better on a Campus site :)
@R. Comments traditionally have always been the oldest comment at the top. However this latest version of WordPress that powers Edublogs Campus now supports changing the order so you can make most recent comment first.
However you need to have a theme that has been designed for this feature. There are three themes that currently support most recent comments first they are WPMU-Nelo, WPMU-Dixi and WPMU-Triden. They are all Edublogs Supporter themes that are located in the Premium Themes tab.
Once you activate these themes on a blog you need to go to Settings > Discussion and change the order of the comments.
Dear Ms Sue,
I have a little problem, because when I want to post something on my blog, I dont have the option between the HTML and VISUAL, the two buttons that are usuall next to the Upload/Insert buttons, doesn´t exist. What can I do?
Thanks
@vangogh13 Can I get you to log into your blog? Go to Users > Your Profile then select ‘Disable the visual editor when writing’ and click Update Profile. Once you have done that deselect ‘Disable the visual editor when writing’ and click Update Profile. When you go to your write area it should now be working.
Thank you so much, it worked!
I think the theme you choose can be responsible for problems with comments.