While it is great to get notification via email that comments have been left on a student’s page, I wish I could be notified via email when students leave posts that need reviewing. That would wipe out hours of clickage.

knowwhatimean?

Here is an article I’ve written previously about dealing with student blogs at the end of the year – http://theedublogger.com/2009/06/05/dealing-with-student-blogs-at-the-end-of-the-school-year/

Hope that post helps!

I am an admin on all student blogs, and approve comments etc.
Like an earlier moderator mentioned, once you have had to remove something once, they don’t do it again.

Something I am concerned with at the moment – as it is end of year, and many of my students are moving on to high school, what do you recommend I do bout their blogs? They still want to keep them, but I am the first teacher at our school to have student blogs, so who moderates in the future? And who moderates the ones who have left the school? I’m sure this is a problem that others have come up against. What do you recommend?

Regards, Sam G, Kallista PS

The alternative is they subscribe to students comments and posts using Google Reader; then moderate after posts are published. They spend a lot of time before the students start publishing their own wrote educating them about appropriate online behaviour.

Is there a way for students’ “Pending Posts” to show up on the Teacher’s dashboard in the same way that “Pending Comments” do?

Right now it is quite easy to moderate comments that are pending as they show up right on the teacher dashboard. However, when students submit blog posts for approval, the teacher is not notified in any way. Instead, we have to click on each student’s dashboard and check to see whether or not they have a post that’s awaiting approval. It’s do-able, but quite time-consuming.

If there is a better way to do this, please let me know.

Thanks for your help,
Stacey

I did give you some options via twitter. The best is to get your students to log in and then quickly add you as a user using User > Add New. You will need to tell them your username and the email address attached to your username.

Here are the instructions – http://help.edublogs.org/2009/08/24/adding-users-to-a-blog/

Please let me know how you go.

My mistake! I just created 15 student blogs, but got confused and panicky. Forgot to add myself as admin. Is there a way those blogs can be fixed/deleted so I can create new ones with me as the admin?

PJVermont

Sorry for taking your time with this.