Comments on: Are Your Comment Settings Making It Harder For Readers To Comment?

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:30:11 +0000

@dausten, Glad that information helped.

Threaded comments are feature but only on Pro blogs. Depending on what theme you are using determines how you activated the threaded comments. The three Premium themes you need to use Settings > Discussion and then enable threaded comments.

For all other themes you need to go to Plugins > Installed and activate threaded comments plugin.

By: dausten

dausten — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:20:32 +0000

@Sue Waters,

Hi Sue,

The info re:Settings – Discussion has helped my clear up a number of questions (received 150 e-mails after a I set up a literature blog for our school that another teacher is moderating!). I was able to follow your directions and make changes that will meet out needs.

Glad to hear that you will pass along Grace’s request above ( the ability to comment to a comment). This would seem to make conversations more organic.

Thanks again for the fine work…

Deidre

By: Gregory Stringer

Gregory Stringer — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:25:49 +0000

Thanks for some great tips, Sue. I hope the changes I’ve made will make it easier for others to comment on my site.

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:45:59 +0000

Hi Jonah, that is not correct but I can understand why some people think it is the case. The default is that you have email addresses but you can go to Settings > Discussion and change it so that email addresses is no longer required.

By: jmsalsich

jmsalsich — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:51:18 +0000

Sue,
A colleague switching over from blogger to edublogs raised the concern that it looks like students must have an email address to post comments on edublogs. Blogger’s comment form is a hassle for those of us who want to link to our URLs, but the “anonymous” option does allow anyone to comment.
Is it the case that all commenters must enter an email address? Is there a way around this for elementary students?
Thanks, Jonah

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:40:13 +0000

Yes moderating posts is slightly different from comments however you will need each student to have their own login. Another issue with having one account is all you need is one student clicking password reset and you can have trouble.

By: sweeneyblogs

sweeneyblogs — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:31:51 +0000

I am also setting up a class blog, and the main ability of moderating for me is to “check” my students blogs before they post, to make sure they do not reveal personal identifying information (in addition to anything inappropriate).

However, I have one log in name for all students – and as soon as a post is made, all students (using that same log in) have immediate access to view the post —-Even before it is approved— !! The “moderating” function proves worthless if all students can see all the other students posts right away. I have all the moderation settings turned on, but the posts still pop up when you’re logged in using the account used to post the comment. ::sigh::

I haven’t yet explored the “e-mail extensions” (ex: blogname+studentname@gmail.com) and hopefully that works…

By: sweeneyblogs

sweeneyblogs — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:23:44 +0000

Another thought to limit spam access would be to take your blog out of “public view” (Under Settings>Privacy)

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:47:35 +0000

Hi Denise, to use the gmail method to create student accounts you first need to set up your gmail account. As you say you can’t use + when setting up the account. Once you have created your gmail account then what you do is use + in the gmail address for each student. For example your gmail account might be muddy@gmail.com so the first student account might be muddy+1@gmail.com.

By: dreeder54

dreeder54 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:03:11 +0000

HI Sue,

Actually, I wanted to comment on the gmail info, but couldn’t figure out how to do it. I tried opening a gmail account using the +, but gmail would only allow letters, numbers, and “.” Do you know if this is a recent change? I wanted to try your suggestions for adding students.

Denise Reeder
dreeder54