This final step will grant your access to posting their writing to the blog site. You will be adding your students to your Edublog as Contributors watch gives them access to author on the site, but allows you to still monitor what is being posted. To add students to your blog follow these steps:
- Login to your blog site (you can do so at http://edublogs.org if you are not already on your blog)
- Click on Users link all the way on the right of your Dashboard
- Click on Add Users in the top center of your screen
- Complete the fields with the Gmail sub-account addresses you created and select Contributor/User role as the User Role for each student.
- Complete for each student in your class or blogging project.
Next >> Begin blogging 
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You now have a teacher Gmail account and enough Gmail sub-accounts for the students in your class or blogging project. A third step is necessary before you grant them access to your blog site… setting up an Edublogs.org accounts for each student. Follow these steps to create Conributor accounts for each student:
- Enter a Username for the account (again generic applies here)
- Enter the Gmail Email Address that coincides with the Username above
- Check the I Agree box.
- Select Just a username, please.
- Click Next >>
- Repeat for all students in the class or blogging project.
Next >> Adding Users to Your Edublog
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Updated: 11/18/2008
Your tech saavy will really shine once you complete this task. You’ll be creating sub-accounts in Google Mail to create email accounts for students in your class. For these accounts you don’t need student names you just need a generic name (i.e. – smithclassroom @ gmail.com) to start. Follow these directions to get going:
- Log in to Google Mail with the account you created previously
- Click Settings in the upper right hand corner and then click the Accounts tab
- Click Add another email address link and enter a new email address based off of the main email address (smithclassroom@gmail.com). For instance, Student 1′s email would be smithclassroom+1@gmail.com. Adding the “+1″ to the end of the email name is what differentiates this new account from all others.
- Continue adding sub-accounts until you have enough for the students in your class. Note: think about the potential growth of your class. If you don’t have enough accounts, you can go back and add more later.
Next Step >> Creating Edublog Student Accounts
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Most schools do not offer email accounts to students. Even if they did, managing a blog might get unwieldy when you have turnover year after year. So, here’s where you will show your technology saavy-ness. Go visit Google Mail and start an Internet email account there. It’s okay, you don’t have to use it for your email, just to register your students as contributors within your blog. Our next step will be to Create Sub-accounts in Gmail.
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