We’ve streamlined the process by which students can be added to individual blogs. There are still two ways that you can register students, though most will choose the first.
Creating Accounts for Your Students:
- Visit the Dashboard of your blog. Since many users are all members of multiple blogs, be sure that you’re in the correct place (the blog name should appear at the top of the Dashboard).
- Then, click on the “Tools” menu, and click “Import Users.”
- Then, paste a list of the Baruch email addresses for your students into the field on that page (faculty members can download an eRoster with student email addresses here). The list must be in the following format, using Baruch emails:
- Select the appropriate user role from the drop down menu
- Click “Import Users”
The page will then give you a report of accounts created and accounts added to the blog. Please copy that report and save for your files in case there are any problems.
Each of your students will receive an email with their username, password, a link to your blog, and a link to their BuddyPress profile page (and a nudge to fill it out). Speaking of which, if you haven’t filled out your profile, please do so!
Having students self-register (an older method, but it still works):
If you want your students to register and add themselves as subscribers, contributors, authors (most common), editors, or administrators, they’ll need to first create an account on Blogs@Baruch (if they don’t have one already), and then individually add themselves to your blog. You’ll need give your students this handout (a PDF file that you can alter if you’d like) and make sure that the “Add Yourself as A User” widget appears in the sidebar of your blog.
During this process, you have the choice to password protect self-registration on your blog, and to allow self-registrants to add themselves to your blog at any user level. Once your students have completed registration, you will see them listed in your Users menu.
The screencast below will walk you through setting up this process.
