Edublog Rollover
The blog rollover focuses on making sure edublogs are associated to the right teacher and school for the new year.
For all existing blogs use the Rollover Sheet provided for the school. These slides step you through this process.
Within School Transition
Learners who stay and are moving to a new class:
Adding the new teacher(s) as an administrator (when they already have an edublogs account)
Changing comment notifications - add the new teachers email address
Nb - need to have comment notifications plugin enabled - this is a task for facilitators/school leaders
How to change comment notifications
Updating the tagline - If the data is updated on the rollover sheet, this will be done by Edublogs.
If you wish to do this manually will need to change the year level and teacher name
Remove previous teacher from the students edublog
Between School Transfer
Learners moving from your school to another Manaiakalani Network School
Adding the new school Edublogs admin account as an administrator - you can find these accounts here.
How to add new Edublog admin accounts
Remove previous teacher from comment notifications
How to remove emails from comment notifications
Remove previous teacher from the students edublogs
Learners arriving at your school from a Manaiakalani Network School
Update the tagline and Site Title
Change the year level and teacher name
How to update site titles and taglines
Adding the new teacher(s) as an administrator (when they already have an edublogs account)
Setting comment notifications - add the new teachers email address
Nb - need to have comment notifications plugin enabled - this is a task for facilitators/school leaders
How to change comment notifications
Student will need to be added as users once their new school email addresses are set up
Complete the Edublogs Transfer Between Schools Form. This will connect learner's blog(s) with their new school email address enabling the blog(s) to show up in Hāpara and for ease of administration.
Archiving Edublogs
Note : This Process is only for learners leaving the cluster OR finishing school (ie year 13)
Don't delete the blog!
Update the site title (remove school, leave students name) and change the tagline - I was a learner at xxx school and this is where I shared my learning.
How to update site titles and taglinesRemove all teachers associated with the blog
How to remove teachersChange the student's role to a subscriber - this maintains the link between the student as the author on the post and the content of the post.
How to change an author to a subscriberAutomatically close comments on posts older than 1 day
How to close comments
