Comments on: Creating Student Accounts Using One Gmail Account

By: healthstudies

healthstudies — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:51:07 +0000

Thanks! I can now stop trawling through help forums to try and figure out why the little check box didn’t make threaded comment magically appear
Given my class blog is so new, I think I’ll trial the free version for a few months at least and see how it goes before deciding whether to upgrade to Pro.

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:28:40 +0000

@healthstudies, This new version of WordPress MU that powers Edublogs now supports threaded comments however the theme needs to be designed for that feature.

So you can only use Settings > Discussion enabled threaded comments option if you are using one of the three Premium themes that support it (we now have more Premium themes but I haven’t checked if they support this feature).

Other wise you need to use Threaded comments plugin.

Both the Premium themes and access to plugins are Edublogs Pro features.

By: healthstudies

healthstudies — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:14:45 +0000

I forgot to add that this is the only post on the Edublogger with the search term ‘threaded’ in it and I can’t find anything in the Edublogs Forum

By: healthstudies

healthstudies — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:12:05 +0000

Hi @Sue Waters, I'm having trouble getting threaded (nested) comments to work. I’ve ticked the checkbox ‘Enable threaded...’ in the ‘Discussion’ tab under ‘Settings but I’m not able to activate the Threaded Comments plugin because I’m not an Edublogs Pro user. Is there a way to activate threaded comments without becoming a Pro user? I’m using the Ocean Mist theme on the discussion blog I’ve just set up for my students. I did a test comment for threaded comments on the first post, but it doesn't look like it's worked.

By: jonesian1

jonesian1 — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:33:18 +0000

@csweet, That all depends on what you’re trying to teach them.

By: csweet

csweet — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:59:50 +0000

I was wondering what Web 2.0 I should definately introduce my students to?

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:10:10 +0000

@Ian, you are using an Edublogs Campus site which works differently than Edublogs.org because you can specify which email domains are allowed to sign up.

On your site you have it restricted to your district email domain. To allow gmail+ you need to allow gmail.com in your email registrations in Site Admin > Options. I’ve responded in more detail by email.

By: jonesian1

jonesian1 — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:18:43 +0000

Oddly enough, this doesn’t seem to be working anymore. We had several teachers using this method; but now an error message stating that the “email address is not allowed” is showing up in Edublogs. Has WordPress changed something?

Ian

By: Stampin Corner Help - Creating student blogs using the Signup page

Stampin Corner Help - Creating student blogs using the Signup page — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:56:10 +0000

[...] TIP: Remember if your students don’t have email addresses you can use Gmail method. [...]

By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:20:28 +0000

@thesuper7, The gmail account you create for yourself is used to set up their accounts on Edublogs. I think you are trying to use the gmail + method to create individual gmail accounts for them — which you can’t do.

If you want them to each have their own gmail account it needs to be created in their own name.