Learn how to add students to your Kidblog classroom | a TeacherCast online course

Hello there, thank you for watching todays screencast from TeacherCast University. This is the fourth video in our online learning series called “Kidblog: An Introduction to Blogging with your students” About This Lesson In todays look at Kidblog.org we will take a look at the Users Menu and help you add your students into your class blog. Before we learn how to add students to your classroom account, lets first examine the concept of user roles in Kidblog. User Roles Kidblog offers several user roles including Administrator, Teacher, Moderator, Student, Parent and Guest Administrator Administrator role is available to users with Admin Pro site licenses Designed for school or district administrators setting up accounts site-wide Teacher Create student accounts Manage student passwords and profiles Moderate content based on class privacy & approval settings Moderator Available for Admin Pro subscriptions Moderate posts & comments in a class Cannot edit user accounts Student Publish posts and leave comments Request post audience based on privacy settings set by teacher Update their profile – avatar, display name, password Parent Connect to their child’s account via email invitation View child’s posts and comments Join class as a Guest (if enabled by teacher) Guest Join class with a Guest registration code (if enabled by teacher) View posts published publicly or for “Connections” Leave comments if permitted by the teacher Can be removed from class by Teacher Creating Student Users There are two ways of creating users in your Kidblog Dashboard. First, click on the Users Tab and click on the Create New Users button on the top right. To create a new user, type in a Display name and select a password. To create a batch of new users click on the Bulk Create button and download the sample CSV file. You can open the CSV file into your favorite spreadsheet application such as Excel, Numbers, or Google Sheets. After opening your spreadsheet, simply fill out the appropriate columns, save your work and upload your completed file. The second method of student registration is to create and enable a unique registration code that students can use to sign up for for you class blog on their own. To do this, click on the Registration Codes button on the top right. This dialogue box provides 2 registration codes. One for Student Roles and one for Guest Rolls. Click the enable button to active these Registration codes. Once created, these class codes can be emailed out to your student population, or shared on a class website. Students can use this code by visiting Kidblog.org and selecting the Enter Your Class Code button on the front page. We will show you how this works from a students perspective on a future video in this online course. Once a user is created, you can edit their account by choosing the edit button . . . . . from this dialogue box, you can change their Avatar, view their individual storage and update their email and password settings. Additional options allow you to set the display type for their date and time and the ability to enable or disable Theme Animations. To remove a student, simply click the Remove button and the student will be deleted. About our Online Course The complete video series to this online course can be found on our website TeacherCast.net/LearnKidblog. I hope you take a moment to browse this and all of our online tutorials over at TeacherCastUniversity.com and TeacherCast.net I hope you liked this video and found it helpful. If you did, click on the LIKE button below and leave us a comment. If you wish to receive more videos from TeacherCast, please click the subscribe button on the top left of this video box and visit TeacherCast.net for more information about google and other great educational tools. Don’t forget to catch TeacherCast LIVE every Sunday night at 7pm as we bring you the TechEducator Podcast on TeacherCast.tv.