Blogging for Students

Description

This post is intended to be a starting point for students participating in class blogs.  It will be updated as needed. Please note, Bentley currently does not have a mechanism in place to create personal blogs for students.

First Steps
Your instructor has probably scheduled an invitation to participate in your class' blog to be emailed to you at a selected time.  Once you have the invitation please follow the instructions on accepting the invitation (http://blogs.bentley.edu/invite/invite_stu.html).

There will be two sites you need to keep track of:

1. On the right you will see a link to your course's blog, where you can read all of the posts and comment on them.  This is likely passworded with a common password that every student will be given by the instructor.

2.  On the left, under "Getting Started", there is a link to "Login to TypePad (to create a post)".  This is where you can create your own posts to the blog and edit ones you have previously made.  The username and password are the ones you will have made while accepting the invitation above. 

For convenience the "Getting Started" section to the left can also be in your class blog, should you need it.

Blogging

Please take care to note the differences between posts and comments.  Posts are the main sections of text on the blog itself, and are seperated by text like "Posted by so-and-so on some-date at some-time in some-category | Permalink | Comments (0) ".  A permalink is a link to the individual post on a blog.  On that page, after the post, there will likely be a comments section, which is where clicking on "Comments (0)" will take you.  If you have something new you would like to discuss use the "Login to TypePad (to create a post)" link on the left to create a new post.  This way others can then comment on it, if they wish.

General Information on posting to the blog is available using TypePad's online Help system under "Posting to Your Weblog".  The "Out of Many, One" post will help place Bentley's blogging efforts into the wider framework of blogs, and explain why you've got two URLs to keep track of, per blog.

Comments

[Long Huynh]

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