Glow Blogs Adding Users. This is one of
a series of short screencasts that should
you get up and running with Glow Blogs.
Before you start adding users it is important to know what
the different roles these users can have in your blog.
If you need more information
on the roles it is on the help blog
and also in the longer version of this video
The roles I most commonly use in glow blogs would be
Administrator and Author. That means you
someone who is doing the design and looking after the site.
And someone else who can add
content to the site.
You probably do want to have more than one Administrator
on the blog in case some happens to you,
or you leave the school or move on or retire
there will be someone there who can take over the blog
If you leave a blog without an administrator it means that nobody can take on
that job until you log a call
with your LA help desk to get someone else to take over.
So I’ve now
going to add some other users to my blog.
I’ve logged onto to glow and gone
through the tile and found my blog. I know I am logged in
because I can see the admin bar art the top
with the name of the blog customise and other things
If I had not logged into glow and had gone straight to the blog
I could click on Site Admin and that would
take me through the login to log in.
I am going into the Dashboard now
On the left hand side
there is a list of the different screen you see in the dashboard
where you can control your blog
I am going to the user screen. When I hover over that it says
All Users, Your profile and Add users. I want Add users.
to add some people to the blog. I click Add Users
In there I can start filtering
for my local authority, then my school
and then it is going
list the curricular groups. my school is very small so there are not
many curricular groups. Down below that and below the year groups
is a Teachers
I probably wanto get at least one of the other
teachers as an Administrator.
in case I need someone else to access the blog
or if I leave the school.
I choose the role Adminstrator
and click Add Selected users
That says ! user added to a blog
If I now look at all users I can see that this person
has been added as an Admin. Because this person has been added as an Admin
has logged onto glow before, you can see their name
and email address is filled in. If they had not logged on
to blog before you would not see that information until they did.
If g oback to the add users screen. I can filter again
again choose teaching staff. I am going to add some other
teachers as
Authors to the blog
I click Add selected users
It tells me 3 users are added to the blog.
There is another way to add users.
YYoucan add users if you can’t find them you can go in and add
by using their User Name.
It is important that you
put the username, not their email address
so gw
09johnston
like that. you can put @glow but do not put
the whole email address. i usually leave it as the user name
If I want to add more I could put another one on
an other line
set the role and Add users
I’ve added a few different users with different roles.
These people should be able to access
and carry out the duties
of either Admin or Author.
More information at
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/glowblogs/glowbloghelp