| Limited Access Website Content Creation When an Urban Planet administrator creates a Blog section with a Blog Password students can then create Urban Planet website content with minimal access to the administration.
Students can go to the usual public view of the
section and enter the blog password. (Note: This is not a
password protected section. It is password protected administration.)
They will only have edit access
to that one section.
Students will be able to add or edit items (including attachments). They can enter reports, upload
media, and add links to resources.
Students will be able to edit the section introduction but will not have the
administrative rights to delete the
section.
To try a blog from the student's point of view, click on Try Blog and
then enter the password butterfly in the login field at the bottom of
the page. TRY
BLOG
To create a Blog Section:
- Select the Section under which your Blog section will
appear.
- Click on Add a Subsection. Title the Blog. Select Blog section
type. Click on Create Section.
- Go into edit for the section. Fill in
Title (and Introduction if desired). Select Display Settings. Type a password
in Blog Password field.
- If there will be more than 3 items increase the Number of Summary Items to the number you want to display on each page.
- If you want to password protect the section itself go into Access Settings, select click here to password protect this section, enter a password.
- Save
- Click red button to turn on.
See a video on how to create a Blog at http://uphelp3.spps.org/Help_Videos2.html. (Though the system has been updated since the videos were created.)
Blog Issues:
- Students can turn on their items so
the public will be able to view their work. You could password protect
the section until the students are done working, check their work,
change the blog password so they can't get back in to change anything,
and then take the password protection off of the section itself.
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Students will be able to edit and/or turn off other student's items.
Consider setting up a separate blog section for each student.
- Another reason to use separate sections instead of creating one blog section with each student creating an item on it: If one student logs out it logs all the students out so they will lose anything they did not save.
- If a student goes into edit for the blog
section itself on a different browser than the one that you created it
on, extra html can show up and disrupt the formatting.
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