{"id":2363,"date":"2017-06-11T19:17:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T19:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/?page_id=2363"},"modified":"2024-02-19T20:26:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T20:26:57","slug":"bulk-creation-of-e-portfolio-blogs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/e-portfolios\/bulk-creation-of-e-portfolio-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulk Creation of e-Portfolio Blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You can see a video of this process on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/221173376\">Vimeo<\/a>, embedded here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"e-Portfolio-bulk-creation\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/221173376?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"474\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As of June 2017 it is possible for teachers to bulk create blogs for their pupils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The blogs will be given the pupil&#8217;s glow username as a Site Name (the url).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If a blog already exists with that username the teacher, or the pupil, needs to create a blog with a different site name manually in the usual way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Teacher will need to be an administrator of at least one blog to gain access to the creator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pupils will need to be listed in SEEMIS and that data up to date in Glow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the steps that a teacher needs to follow to create a set of class blogs or e-portfolios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Log onto Glow Blogs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Visit the dashboard of a site that you are an administrator of.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Choose Bulk Create Blogs from the Tools menu of the dashboard sidebar.&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2365\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/e-portfolios\/bulk-creation-of-e-portfolio-blogs\/tools-bulk-create-png\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/glowbloghelp\/uploads\/sites\/2545\/2017\/06\/tools-bulk-create.png.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"360,216\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"tools-bulk-create.png\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/glowbloghelp\/uploads\/sites\/2545\/2017\/06\/tools-bulk-create.png.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/glowbloghelp\/uploads\/sites\/2545\/2017\/06\/tools-bulk-create.png.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2365 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/glowbloghelp\/uploads\/sites\/2545\/2017\/06\/tools-bulk-create.png.jpg\" alt=\"Avaliable tools menu item in Tools menu in the Dashboard sidebar\" width=\"360\" height=\"216\"><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On the Bulk Create Blogs page, you select LA, then school and then curricular or year group. 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Selecting e-Portfolios will automatically activate the&nbsp;e-portfolio plugin. 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The pupils will be the administrator. The teacher creating the sites will not have a role on the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Next Steps<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The pupils can find their new site in the <strong>My Sites<\/strong> page linked to\u00a0\u00a0from the LA blog home page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The newly created blogs will be completely private. To make the accessible to the pupils teachers and class mates there are two different approaches. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>They should either make the blog Glow Only in settings-&gt;reading.\u00a0More information on <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/privacy-settings-wp4\/\">privacy settings<\/a>.  <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alternatively, pupils could keep their blog private, adding their teacher and any other potential visitors\u00a0to their blog as users.\u00a0See <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/adding-users-setting-roles\/\">adding users setting roles<\/a> for more information.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>We would recommend that teachers\u00a0\u00a0follow their\u00a0pupils e-Portfolios once they have access to them. This will save a lot of work in keeping up with their pupils. \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/how-to\/glow-blogs-reader\/\">Glow Blogs Reader<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Teachers often have themselves added by pupils as Admins to help them oversee the sites. This can result in a build up of blogs in a Teacher&#8217;s  My Sites page. It is possibler to remove yourself from many blogs at once, details on the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/glowbloghelp\/settings\/my-sites\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"4153\">My Sites help page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can see a video of this process on Vimeo, embedded here: As of June 2017 it is possible for teachers to bulk create blogs for their pupils. The blogs will be given the pupil&#8217;s glow username as a Site Name (the url). 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