Head Teacher's blog
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Head Teacher's Blog
Creating a community
You may like to create a blog to share with the rest of the school.
The best way to do this will be to create a new community.
In the Administration view of the platform, click on Communities and Create Community.
Now select 'Whole School' from the drop down menu and click on Create:
In the body of the page, you will want to remove of the wiki and what's on panels and add a community blog panel.
To do this, click on the cogs at the top right of the page to visit the community administration area:
Click on remove on the wiki and what's on panels:
Now, from the the Available Panels dropdown, choose Community Blog:
Select the number of posts you would like to appear on the front page and click on save.
Users will still have access to historic posts by clicking on the blog button to the left of the page:
It is likely that you will only require the 'Blog' feature button for this community. To amend which of the features appear in the community, still in the community administration view, uncheck the features you don't want to appear:
Click on update to save your changes:
Setting user rights
In the community administration view, select 'Manage Membership' at the top right of the page:
The panel at the right of the page shows you the membership of the community. The icons to the right of the group names show the users' membership rights.
You will need to be a leader of the community. Leadership rights are shown by a mortar board icon. A leader of a community has rights to edit the community.
Every other member should be set to a viewer. A viewer will only be able to see updates in the community, but not edit or contribute to it. To change users' membership rights to viewer, click on the icon until an eye appears:
Usually, when children are in the same community, they will be able to email anyone else who is a member, but setting the users' membership rights to viewer disables this feature.
Restricting comments feature for staff
Because teacher accounts come with certain administrative rights, teachers will still be able to use the comments feature. If you wish to restrict the commments button for all, when you are in the Manage Membership area of this community, click on the Access tab to the top left of the screen. Now drag the slider to Private. The comments feature is now disabled for all.
Receiving notifications
All members of the community will now receive a notification on their homepage every time you make an update to your blog:
