Edublog Transitions
The blog transition focuses on making sure Edublogs are associated to the right teacher and school for the new year.
For all existing blogs use the Transition Sheet provided for the school. These slides step you through this process. You will need to be logged in to your schools Edublogs Admin account to see these slides.
Within School Transition
Learners who stay and are moving to a new class:
Complete transitions sheet
Changing comment notifications - add the new teachers email address
Nb - need to have comment notifications plugin enabled - this is a task for facilitators/school leaders
How to change comment notificationsRemove previous teachers from the students edublog
Between School Transfer - Start/end of year
Learners moving from your school to another Manaiakalani Network School
Complete the blog transitions sheet
Remove teachers - do not remove student or school/cluster admin accounts
Learners arriving at your school from a Manaiakalani Network School
Complete the Edublogs Transfer Between Schools Form. This will connect learner's blog(s) with their new school email address enabling the blog(s) to show up in Hāpara and for ease of administration.
Between School Transfer - during the school year
Learners moving from your school to another Manaiakalani Network School
Adding the new school Edublogs admin account as an administrator - you can find these accounts here.
How to add new Edublog admin accounts
Remove previous teacher from comment notifications
How to remove emails from comment notifications
Remove previous teacher from the students edublogs
Learners arriving at your school from a Manaiakalani Network School
Update the tagline and Site Title
Change the year level and teacher name
How to update site titles and taglines
Adding the new teacher(s) as an administrator (when they already have an edublogs account)
Setting comment notifications - add the new teachers email address
Nb - need to have comment notifications plugin enabled - this is a task for facilitators/school leaders
How to change comment notifications
Students will need to be added as users once their new school email addresses are set up. Once the learner email accounts have been created, you can add them as new user - the username will need to follow the convention for the school.
Complete the Edublogs Transfer Between Schools Form. This will connect learner's blog(s) with their new school email address enabling the blog(s) to show up in Hāpara and for ease of administration.
Archiving Edublogs - Start/end of year
Note : This Process is only for learners leaving the cluster OR finishing school (ie year 13)
Complete transition sheet identifying learners as leaving.
We will complete the rest of the process for you.
Archiving Edublogs - during the school year
Note : This Process is only for learners leaving the cluster OR finishing school (ie year 13)
Don't delete the blog!
Update the site title (remove school, leave students name) and change the tagline - I was a learner at xxx school and this is where I shared my learning.
How to update site titles and taglinesRemove all teachers associated with the blog
How to remove teachersChange the student's role to a subscriber - this maintains the link between the student as the author on the post and the content of the post.
How to change an author to a subscriberAutomatically close comments on posts older than 1 day
How to close commentsNotify awhina@manaiakalani.org that the learner has left
Unsubscribing to edublog post email notifications
If you have subscribed to receive email notifications for your learners blogs and you'd like to unsubscribe you can do this by either visiting each blog and heading into Subscription - Subscribers and removing yourself from there. Or if you are no longer an admin on the blog, you can remove yourself in bulk using this template.
Paste the blog URL's into column A
Select the links in column B, use ATL + Enter (Windows) or Option + Return (Mac) to open all the links at once.
Click "Yes, cancel my subscription" on each tab that has opened.
