Managing Comments and Posts On Student Blogs Using Google Reader

It’s important, when managing student blogs, to be able to quickly read all their latest posts and any new comments.

Sure you could visit each individual blog but that is incredibly time consuming. The better way, which saves time, is to bring the posts and comments to you using their RSS feed.

Here is how you do it:

1. Set up your Google Reader account

Follow these steps to set up your account
Learn more about RSS here

2. Add your student blogs, one at a time, to your Google Reader account by:

Clicking on Add A Subscription
Entering their blog URL
Now click Add

3. Next create a folder and place all the student blogs into the folder by:

Clicking on Manage Subscription

Click on Change Folder next to the name of any student blog to create a folder for your student blogs

Now add all the student blogs to the folder you have created by selecting all the student blogs, clicking More Actions and selecting the name of your new folder

4. Click Back to Google Reader.

5. Now add your student comment feed, one at a time, to your Google Reader account by:

Clicking on Add A Subscription
Entering their comment feed URL. For Edublogs blog you add comments/feed/ to the end of the blog URL. For example it should look like this https://www.theedublogger.com/comments/feed/
Now click Add

6. Next create new folder for the comments and place all the student comments feeds into that folder by following the same steps you used for the student blogs.

Using Your Google Reader

Now that you’ve set up your Google Reader account all the posts and comments will come to you. As you scroll through the latest feed in each folder they will automatically be marked as read.

To visit a post or respond to a comment — just click on its title!