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1 Edublogs Staff Guide This guide will help you to manage your classes and administer your Edublogs and also provide basic worksheets for the creation of content. Menu Logging in Pg. 2 Edublogs Dashboard Pg. 3 Assessment criteria – How do you want your students to setup their blog? Pg. 4 Creating a class & Student Process Pg. 5-8 Managing your class & sites Pg. 8-9 Class Settings Pg. 10 Adding teachers to the class & reports Pg. 11 Housekeeping & Managing your sites Pg. 12 Removing old classes, spring cleaning Pg. 13 Pre-create your students’ blogs Pg. 14 Basic blog editing & how sites work Pg. 15 - 22 Creating menus Pg. 23 - 30 Further support Pg. 31

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Edublogs Staff Guide

This guide will help you to manage your classes and administer your Edublogs and also provide basic

worksheets for the creation of content.

Menu

Logging in

Pg. 2

Edublogs Dashboard

Pg. 3

Assessment criteria – How do you want your students to setup their blog?

Pg. 4

Creating a class & Student Process

Pg. 5-8

Managing your class & sites

Pg. 8-9

Class Settings

Pg. 10

Adding teachers to the class & reports

Pg. 11

Housekeeping & Managing your sites

Pg. 12

Removing old classes, spring cleaning

Pg. 13

Pre-create your students’ blogs

Pg. 14

Basic blog editing & how sites work

Pg. 15 - 22

Creating menus

Pg. 23 - 30

Further support

Pg. 31

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Logging in

1. Firstly always use the ‘Google Chrome’ browser when accessing Edublogs

2. Go to www.moodle.marjon.ac.uk (LearningSpace)

On the home page, you should see a number of different areas, one is Edublogs, click on this:

3. You will now be taken to the main Edublogs login page for Plymouth Marjon University. Click

on ‘Login’

4. Enter your username and password. If you have forgotten your account details please follow

the instructions here: https://sites.marjon.ac.uk/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword

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Edublogs and the dashboard The below screenshot will show what each section means in your dashboard.

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Assessment criteria – How do you want your students to setup their

blog?

Have you considered how you want your students’ blogs to be setup?

For example, if this is their first year – do the students have set tasks to fulfil related to their blogs as

opposed to a running commentary? So, do the students need to capture their daily experiences and

have their peers comment to reflect on their activities? Or are they simply performing static tasks

that don’t require the running commentary?

If students are just creating static pages rather than collaborative posts, then the setup of their blog

in their first year may be different to their second year when they will be providing their experiences

from their placement.

In either case, a sound understanding of how blogs are constructed will be important in order to get

the most out of the blog creation exercise.

Here is a link to a screencast, which you should watch now to get a full understanding – this will

help you and your students to understand their blog setup.

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Creating a Class & Student Process In future, staff should have the required skills to be able to create their own Edublogs classes and

understand how blogs are setup. This guide forms part of the how-to process.

1. Login to Edublogs

2. Click on ‘Get a Blog’

3. Follow the prompts for setting up your new site

4. For the Site name – enter the module code in lowercase followed by the year

5. For the Site title enter the module title and the year

6. Enter any privacy option (it does not matter which as you will select the class privacy later and

this determines the students’ privacy for their blogs that are attached to the class)

7. Select any template (it does not matter which as the site is simply a route to enable you to

create a class)

8. Create Site

Note: If you get an error message at this point, it may be that someone has the same site name as you,

go back to the top and edit the site name

You will be redirected to another page and you should see a screenshot like the one below. Click on

the link after ‘The site …. is yours.’ The site will then be created and once created you will

automatically be sent to the dashboard for the site.

9. Within the dashboard of your new site you should hover your mouse over ‘My Class’ and

select ‘Create Class’

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10. Check the box ‘This is a class blog’

11. Leave the settings as default for the first two sections

12. Select the required privacy you want for the class (which will determine the privacy for the

students blogs once they have joined the class)

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13. Privacy key:

‘Allow search engines to index this site’ – not recommended whilst the students are at

university. It may be that students will want the option after leaving university to allow

Google to index the site, if they have a portfolio to show potential employers.

‘Discourage search engines from indexing this site’ – Although Google will not list the site on

its search engine, it will be available for external visitor to visit the website if they have the

website link.

‘Only registered users of Plymouth Marjon University Sites network can view this site’ – Only

users that have signed up through the Marjon institutional login process will be able to view

the blog. This means that any student or member of staff registered will be able to see the

content if they have the blog link.

‘Only registered users of this site can view it’ – This means that only users that have been

added to the particular blog will be able to see the blog (this option is used when students

either work collaboratively on the same blog or as part of a group to reflect on each other’s

blog. So, students would add each group member via ‘Users’ > ‘Add New’) – note that

teachers attached to the class will still be able to view the blogs

‘Only someone who provides the following password can view this site’ – The Ronseal option.

14. Check the box for ‘Allow all students in this class to read each other's posts in the dashboard

'Reader' tool.’ If you’re happy for students to see a snippet in their dashboard from other

students’ blogs

15. Set any specific permissions for access to things like ‘Switching Themes’ (usually this is set to

‘Allow’ – but you may have had a specific template created especially for the module, so in

this case uncheck this option.

16. Save your class

17. Do you have other members of staff that you want to give access to the class? If you do,

head over to ‘Users’ > ‘Add New’ – in the search box start typing the email address for the

member of staff. If you are using Google Chrome browser their name should automatically

appear for selection. If you’re using Internet Explorer, this may not happen – enter their full

email address and then select the role of ‘Teacher’ from the drop-down box

18. Click the ‘Add Existing User’ button

19. Go back to the Class via ‘My Class’ > Settings.

20. There will be the following message at the top:

21. Scroll down the page and check any additional teachers and then Save.

Student process Students will be asked to follow the below process to join your class – this is just for information

purposes to show you what they do.

The class enables your tutor to access all your blog work, so it is important that you join the class.

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Before we begin with the task, it is worth explaining what happens when you subscribe to other

people’s blogs or what happens when you create more than one site. (you are not required to be in

groups for this exercise or subscribe to other blogs, this is for information purposes)

If you look to the top of the screen you’ll see ‘My Sites’ – hovering your mouse over this will reveal

your new site, but if in the future you are subscribed to numerous sites or you create more – all these

sites will also appear in the drop-down list. This can get confusing, so keep this in mind.

If you do get stuck in the future or confused by a long list of sites, you can hide them by following this

guide on our TEL help site: https://sites.marjon.ac.uk/elearning/2018/11/07/dit-hint-of-the-week-

organising-your-edublog-sites-2/ (for now, just keep this link bookmarked as you only have one site)

To join the class

1. Hover your mouse over ‘My Class’

2. Click on ‘Join a class’

3. In the search box copy and paste the following text exactly: xxxxxx

4. Click ‘Search’

5. Click on ‘Request to join’

Managing your class & sites To manage your class, navigate to the class site via the drop-down list under ‘My Sites’ (if you can’t

find the site, you’ll need to view all sites by clicking directly on ‘My Sites’ and find the site and then

visit the dashboard – or refer to the housekeeping section further down this guide)

1. Go to ‘My Class’ and click on ‘My Class’

2. You will be taken to your class. (note if you have not done so already, there may be student

blogs to approve on this page. If there are, approve them)

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3. Each page will display a maximum of x10 student blogs on each page and here you can view

any blog by clicking on ‘Visit’ through each of the blog areas, as below:

There are many additional options, for example if a student has added the wrong blog to your class,

you can ‘Remove Blog from Class’ – then they will be able to add the correct blog.

Note: Students can only join one class at a time, they can’t join numerous classes.

Sometimes on occasion, you may visit a student’s blog and find that there is no content or have

difficulty finding it. In this case, you can visit the student’s dashboard or go directly into their

pages/posts. So, if I wanted to view the 6 pages above, I would just click on them. This way you can

view any content you need to.

Click on the page to view the content, then click on the name of the page to view the students’

content.

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Class settings If you need to check the permissions for privacy for the class, or for example you want to lower the

level or privacy after the students have had their blogs marked for the purposes of reflection so the

students see each other’s blogs – you can do this via the settings.

1. Hover the mouse over ‘My Class’ then click on ‘Settings’

This will enable you to alter the settings as required.

Class settings key

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Adding Teachers to the Class

1. To add other teachers to the class, go to ‘Users’ > ‘Add New’

2. Search for the member of staff (if you use Google Chrome, when you start typing a name it

should automatically appear – if you use Internet Explorer most likely it will not do this) – or

find the staff email address and type it into the search box.

3. Set the role to ‘Teacher’ and ‘Add Existing User’

4. Navigate back to the class settings (My Class > Settings)

5. Save

The member of staff will be added to the class. Just make sure that the ‘Teacher’ box is checked

within the class, as below:

Class Reports If you wish, you can create reports on the class activity, this can be done to show all activity relating to

all the student blogs, including posts, comments and users. You can only set it to extract data

monthly.

If you want to generate a report, go to ‘My Class’ > ‘Reports’

You can download any data as a PDF or CSV file for use in a spreadsheet. This could be useful if you

want to see when content was saved. For example, if a student was able to upload their blog before

the deadline. You can filter the date column to display the most recent items.

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Housekeeping & Managing your class & sites

Housekeeping If you are already a user on numerous sites, then it’s likely that the drop-down list of sites is long and

if you are a user on more than 20 sites, then you will not be able to see all the sites.

To access all your sites, just click on the link at the top of the drop-down list ‘See All’ or click on the

three houses icon.

This will take you to pages of your sites. Here you can opt to hide any old sites that you no longer

need access to from the drop-down menu. Keep in mind that when students add their blogs to the

class, this will automatically add their blogs to the drop-down list. Once all the students have added

their blogs, you can go back into the pages and opt to hide their blogs from the drop-down list in the

same way. This will not delete their blogs.

If you hide any blogs remember to ‘Save Changes’ before moving on to another page.

If you find this method above problematic, you may want to review a previous blog post about

managing your sites, with instructions on how to create lists to help you manage Edublogs.

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Removing old classes, spring cleaning If you have been a teacher on previous classes for past years and no longer need the classes or

would like to remove them – you can. Follow the below steps to find out how.

1. Visit your My Sites area, by clicking directly on it.

2. You’ll see all the pages of sites that you are a user on.

3. When you have identified an old class site, click on the ‘Dashboard’ link

4. Click on ‘My Class’

5. You’ll then need to ‘Remove Blog from Class’ for every student blog in the class before you

will be able to delete the class from your ‘My Sites’

6. To bulk remove student blogs from the class, tick each one and then use the drop-down

menu to remove them all.

7. Student blogs can be deleted but be warned this will delete the student’s entire blog from

Edublogs as well as the class.

8. When you have removed all the blogs from the old class, hover the mouse over ‘My Class’

and then go to ‘Settings’

9. Uncheck the Class Blog: ‘This is a class blog’ setting and ‘Save’ – the class will be removed.

Taking your account off an old student blog site If you have previously been added to a student’s blog as a user, perhaps before classes were enabled

and used. You can remove yourself from old student blog sites to clean up space in your Edublogs.

To do this, navigate to the student’s blog that you no longer need to mark or access if it is an old blog

site from past years.

Either find the site from your drop-down ‘My Sites’ area or click on your ‘My Sites’ area and search

through your site pages to find the blogs.

Once found, click on the site dashboard link and head to ‘Users’ > You can then remove yourself as a

user from the student’s blog. (note: don’t do this for any current blogs you’re making or that are part

of new classes)

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Pre-create your students’ blogs If you prefer to setup everything for the students prior to a teaching session, you can within the class.

(this assumes you have created a class already)

1. Go to ‘My Class’ > ‘Create Student Blogs’

2. Click on the + on the page

3. If the students do not have Edublogs accounts, you can create new users or if they already

have Edublogs accounts, you can switch to ‘Existing User’

4. If you want to create new users enter a username in the following format ‘first name,

followed by last name’ – for example mewens

5. Enter the student’s email address [email protected]

6. Provide a user password, for example ‘password’ (they can change their password during

their first session)

7. Enter their blog url, this should be in the following format ‘name of their Edublog project or

module followed by their name initials or mewens as above (this must be all lower case

letters, containing no spaces or special characters.

8. Enter their blog title and ‘Create Blogs’

If you want to add an existing user, follow these instructions:

1. Enter the student’s username or email address

2. Enter their blog url, this should be in the following format ‘name of their Edublog project or

module followed by their name initials or mewens as above (this must be all lower case

letters, containing no spaces or special characters.

3. Enter their blog title and ‘Create Blogs’

4. The students will be informed that they have a new blog and they can access this the next

time they login to Edublogs.

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Basic blog editing & how sites work This section will show you how to create a blog site yourself and detail the different

components/elements that make up a blog and how to create something engaging. This will be useful

knowledge to learn if students have any questions about their blogs, particularly if a member of DIT is

unavailable to provide support in the first instance.

1. If you are already logged into Edublogs, click on ‘My Sites’

2. You should see a link at the top ‘Add New’ – click on this.

3. Follow the on-screen form (remember Site Name must be all lower case with no spaces)

Creating new pages/posts & basic editing To begin with we will explain the differences between pages and posts.

• Pages are static, so if you imagine most websites, they have ‘home, about us, contact us, etc’

these are static pages and won’t change much over time. Pages are non-collaborative,

meaning that other people can’t leave comments on them or have any kind of engagement in

them.

• Posts are collaborative and other people can leave comments on them and engage with the

content, so most blogs are setup so that the home page will display the most recent posts.

This is a convenient option for most students as any new post will automatically appear on

the home page once published. (some modules prefer a static page for the first year, with

blog posts being created in the second year for placement capture)

The above screenshot shows a site that has recent posts set to display on the home page.

We’ll now start creating pages and posts for your blog.

1. Click on the ‘Pages’ link

2. With the template for any new blog you create you will have example pages, select all of

these and remove them. To do this check the top-left hand box and click on the ‘Bulk

Actions’ drop-down box and select ‘Move to Bin’

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3. Click on ‘Apply’

We do this as common practice because the template pages will not allow you to save as draft. Save

as draft will allow you to work on your page until you are ready to publish it.

When all pages have been removed click on ‘Posts’

Prepare your workspace

Repeat the same process as above to remove any example posts that you have in your new blog.

1. To help you work in the editor and see your blog, it’s good practice to open your live site in a

new browser tab. Hover your mouse over the icon of a house at the top of the page and

right-click on ‘view site’ then select ‘open link in new tab’

Example screenshot shows where you can open your site in a new tab

2. You can now switch between the live site in the browser and the editor

3. Let’s add some pages to your new blog site – navigate to pages in the editor and click on

‘Add New’

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4. Enter ‘About me’ as the title of the page and click on ‘Publish’ on the right-hand side of the

screen (We publish this straightaway to enable the link to appear in the menu - we’ll also get

into creating more content a little later)

5. Now click on the live site tab you opened earlier and refresh the screen. You should see a

new navigation link called ‘About me’

6. Depending on the template you selected when creating the site, the navigation menu may

appear at the top or side of the screen.

7. Create more new pages using the same instructions as above, you may want to create a

‘placement’ page or a ‘references’ page – ask you tutor if you are unsure what pages you

may need.

Site structure

1. Most blog sites are configured so that blog posts always appear on the home page – you can

check this by visiting Settings > Reading

2. For the purposes of this guide keep the reading settings set to ‘Your latest posts’

Creating new posts

1. Navigate to your ‘Posts’ area and click on ‘Add New’

2. Create your first blog post – call it something like ‘Day 1’ – if you are capturing your

placement experiences, this may be a suitable way of doing it.

3. You can now add content to your post – see below for a description of the editor:

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4. So let’s start by adding a title – so in the empty content area, underneath the toolbar - type

‘Title’ – then click the mouse inside the text and click on the ‘Paragraph’ drop-down menu

and select ‘Heading 2’

Your title should look similar to the below example:

5. Press return after the title and write some text in the box.

Adding media

1. Click before the first sentence before the first word in the text box

2. Click on ‘Add Media’

3. You should have some example images as part of the template – click on one of the images

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the above are just examples of image sets

4. When you click on an image, it will appear on the left of your screen and you’ll notice that

on the right-hand side of the screen there are boxes, some may be populated with text

already. Take a look at the below diagram which shows what these boxes mean:

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5. For now set the alignment to ‘Right’ and select the size to be ‘Medium’ and then ‘Insert into

Post’

Example of an image inserted into the post

6. You can edit any image that you have added to the post just by clicking on it.

7. So if you prefer the alignment to be to the left, you can click on the top options bar to do

this.

8. The pencil tool will enable you to change things like the size and captions. You can also drag

the handle bars on the image when selected to make it larger or smaller. (a word of caution,

don’t add a thumbnail image and then stretch it, as the quality will reduce significantly.

Start with a larger image and reduce it, if you want to use the corner handle bars)

9. To add you own images, just click where you want your image in the page/post editor and

click on ‘Add Media’ > Upload Files > Select Files

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Adding video

1. You can add you own videos in the same way you would add an image. There is a maximum

file size of 50mb for uploading video.

2. You can always opt for adding a YouTube video. If you visit YouTube and find a video that

you want to embed into your blog, simply copy the website address of the YouTube video

and paste it into your blog editor. The video should automatically be created.

Adding links

1. Add a hyperlink to your post by clicking and dragging the mouse over ‘working at Fictitious

Sports Centre here in Plymouth’ – with the text highlighted click on the link icon.

2. Just type in www.google.co.uk and click on the blue arrow icon

3. This will add the link to the text to Google and it’s how you can link to any other webpage.

4. Click back on the link text and click on the pencil icon > then click on the cog icon. 5. Check the box ‘Open link in a new tab’ and Update

6. This will mean that the link when clicked will open in a new tab, so the visitor to your blog

site can still access your site easily. 7. Experiment with the other formatting tools like bold and italic and start creating content for

your blog.

Remember to save your work by ‘Save as Draft’ or if you’re ready to publish ‘Publish’

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Hint: always publish any pages or posts you create without content, this way the page or post will

appear in the navigation menu. (You can then work in draft on the main body of content until you’re

ready to publish)

How to upload a document

1. Within the edit screen for either a post or a page, click on ‘Add Media’

2. Go to ‘Upload Files’ > Select Files

3. Find the document you want to upload and add it

4. Change the title on the right-hand side to something more suitable and ‘Insert into Post’

5. If you want the change the title of the text, just click on it > select the pencil icon > click on

the cog icon > Update ‘Link Text’

How to change the template

1. Navigate to ‘Appearance’ > ‘Themes’

2. There are over 300 hundred templates to choose from – popular templates include

‘Bushwick, Aaron, Tracks.

3. Hover your mouse over ‘Aaron’ > Click on ‘Live preview’

4. If you like the new template style click on ‘Save & Activate’ if you don’t like it, click on the

cross top left-hand side of the screen to return to the templates.

Be aware that each template is different and the layout of the navigation and other aspects not

covered in this session may be in a different place as well. Some of the templates setup during site

creation are not recoverable once changed.

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Creating menus Menus by default are automatically created by Edublogs when pages & posts are published.

However, there may be times when students will want to create drop-down menus and there are

several methods for doing this.

1st method

You can edit the menu system within the pages edit area – this will allow you to make drop-down

links and order the menu. The limitations of this method area that you can’t add categories from

posts as menu items, or create custom navigation links, or add posts as menu items.

2nd method

This method will let you control all aspects of the menu. So you can add posts as drop-down menu

items, create custom navigation items and make categories as menu items.

Categories can be created within posts, so these tend to be used within the widget area of a blog site

– for example to make it easier for people to find related content. So let’s say the blog post was

about sports injuries, you could have a category called ‘sports injuries’ then if later on you are talking

about knee injuries in a separate post, you can also tag the same category in that post and when a

visitor to your site clicks on the category ‘sports injuries’ it will bring up both blogs.

We will look at creating menus using both methods, starting with the 1st method

1st method 1. Firstly let’s change the default settings for the home page – go to ‘Settings > Reading’

2. If the home page is set to posts – change this to a static page and choose a page called

‘home’ (if you don’t have a home page, you will need to create one first and then go back to

the settings.

3. ‘Save Changes’

4. Now go into pages and create a page called ‘Blogs’ and save it

5. Go back to the reading settings and set the ‘Posts page’ as the new page you just created

called ‘Blogs’ > Save Changes.

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What you’ve done is set a static home page and any posts you create will now automatically display

when a visitor visits your ‘posts’ page on your blog.

1. Create the following pages if you have not done so already: ‘Home’ – ‘About me’ – ‘Blogs’ –

‘Sports Injuries’ – ‘Injury Blogs’

2. Create the following posts ‘Knee injuries’ – ‘Arm injuries’ – ‘Dreaded Achilles injuries’ – ‘Day

1 of placement’ – ‘Day 2 of placement’

3. Go back into your pages and go into the home page – set the order to ‘0’ and update the

page.

4. Now go into your About me page and set the order to ‘1’ – repeat the same process for

‘Sports Injuries’ to order as ‘2’ – then set the ‘Blogs’ page to order at ‘3’ and finally set the

order for the ‘Injuries Blogs’ to ‘4’

5. Hover your mouse over the icon of a single house at the top of the screen and right click on

‘Visit Site’ > then open in a new tab.

6. Click on the new tab to view your site – hopefully it should have the navigation looking a bit

like the below screenshot:

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7. Now what we want to do is make a drop-down menu item so that the ‘Injuries Blogs’ will

appear under the main ‘Blogs’ menu item.

8. Head back into your pages and edit the ‘Injuries Blogs’ page

9. Now you’ll want to assign a parent as the ‘Blogs’ page. Look to the right, under ‘Page

Attributes’ you’ll see a drop-down box called ‘Parent’ – click on this and select ‘Blogs’

10. Update.

11. If you view the live site and refresh the page, you’ll see that ‘Injuries Blogs’ has disappeared

from the main menu, but if you hover the mouse over ‘Blogs’ the ‘Injuries Blogs’ page will

appear as a drop-down.

This is how you can order any menu within the pages area, plus create any drop-down pages.

2nd method This method is used to control all aspects of a menu system.

1. Go to ‘Appearance’ > ‘Menus’

2. There should be no menu available, if there is delete it and create a new menu. Call it the

jazzy name of ‘Menu’ and then hit ‘Create Menu’

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3. Set the new menu to ‘Primary Navigation’

4. On the left-hand side are all the page, tick them all and ‘Add to Menu’

5. You’ll see all the page names inside the menu structure, save this menu and then view your

live site.

6. Has the menu changed?

7. Yes it has, now it’s in the wrong order and there are no drop-down menus – let’s fix this.

8. Go back into the menu via appearance and click on ‘Home’ and hold down the mouse button

and drag the Home menu item to the top of the menu structure.

9. Repeat the same process to re-order your menu in the right order

10. To get a drop-down, you’ll need to click and drag the ‘Sports Injuries’ menu item underneath

‘Blogs’ and then indent it to the right by moving the mouse to the right.

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11. Save the menu and return to the live site and refresh the page.

You should have the navigation displaying the way you want once more. What you can additionally

do now, is add individual posts as drop-down items and also categories.

Adding induvial posts to your menu

You can add individual posts in the same way you’d add pages to your menu. The only difference, is

that you’ll need to open up the posts area on the left-hand side of the menu to gain access to all

your posts.

1. Collapse the ‘Pages’ tab by pressing the ‘Up’ arrow

2. Open the ‘Posts’ tab by pressing the ‘Down’ arrow

3. Find the ‘Day 1’ post and check it and then ‘Add to Menu’ (keep in mind that when there are

lots of posts, they may not all appear until you click on the ‘View All’ tab)

4. Move the Day 1 post under the ‘Sports Injuries’ page and indent it.

5. ‘Save Menu’ > view the live site and refresh the page.

What are categories and adding them to the menu

Categories can be used within posts to help provide users to the blogsite with easier ways to access

related content. For example, if you were writing about sports injuries and you had three blog posts

all talking about different aspects related to knee injuries – you might want a way for people to be

able to access all the content related to this area. That’s what categories are, they help organise

content better. If you had fifty posts, but no categories, then it would make life more difficult to find

content.

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Let’s setup some categories.

1. Go to your posts

2. Create a new post called ‘arm injuries’

Copy the below text and paste it into the editor for the new post:

Elbow and arm pain is not usually a sign of anything serious. If it does not go away after a few

weeks, see a GP.

How you can ease elbow and arm pain yourself

Try these things for a couple of days:

• put a pack of frozen peas wrapped in a tea towel on your arm – do this for 5 minutes, 3

times a day

• take painkillers like paracetamol or ibuprofen

• raise the arm if it's swollen

3. Update or save the post.

4. In the categories section on the right-hand side, click on the ‘+ Add New Category’ link

5. Type in ‘Arm injuries’ and click on ‘Add New Category’

6. Uncheck the category called ‘Uncategorized’ and ‘Update’ the post.

Now create a brand new post called ‘elbow injuries’ and this time from the categories section,

simply check the category for ‘arm injuries’ and update the post.

You now have a new category for ‘arm injuries’ that you can assign to as many posts related to arm

injuries as you like. The next thing you can do is create a custom link for that category.

Go to ‘Appearance > Menus’

We’re going to create a new menu item called ‘arm injuries’ and add this to the menu. This will

include all the posts related to arm injuries.

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1. Click on the ‘Categories’ drop-down box and open it up.

2. Check the category called ‘Arm injuries’ and ‘Add to Menu’

3. Click and drag the new menu item under ‘Sports injuries’ as per the screenshot below:

4. Save menu.

Now take a look at the live site and click on the navigation item ‘Arm injuries’

It should display your two new posts, the ones where you checked the category for arm injuries.

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Further support

For further support head to the TEL help site and look under ‘help for students’ section for Edublog

support posts: http://sites.marjon.ac.uk/elearninghelp/category/help-for-students/edublogs-help-for-

students/

If you are struggling with anything related to today’s session, you can also contact me directly via:

[email protected]

Or called 01752 636700 ext 5673

If I am unavailable or away, you can also email [email protected]