Kidblog has released two new features to help teachers expand their blogs’ audience and more efficiently manage posts across multiple Kidblog classes.  

Sharing Your Blogs with Other Kidblog Classes 

The first new feature allows blog administrators to easily provide other Kidblog classes with access your class blogs. Do you manage multiple Kidblog classes?  Do you know of another Kidblog class somewhere in the world with whom you’d like to connect?  Now you can quickly grant them access to your posts via the Settings tab of the control panel.

Users from the list of your connected classrooms can read posts and (optionally) leave comments on your students’ posts. This great new feature makes it easier then ever to create a blogging network with Kidblog. Check out our Knowledgebase article for more details.

Post Broadcasting

Kidblog has enabled a powerful new feature to assist teachers who manage multiple Kidblog classes: Post Broadcasting.

Post Broadcasting allows a teacher to compose a post in one class and automatically copy the post to other classes.  Teachers can choose to connect/link the copied posts to the original post, so changes to the original propagate to the linked posts.   Or teachers can simply create copies of a post without linking them back to the original.  Post Broadcasting speeds up teachers’ workflow by eliminating the need to copy and paste post content on multiple classes.  Simply compose your desired post, and send it off to every other class with a single click. Check out our Knowledgebase article for more details.

Enjoy these new features and, as always, don’t hesitate to contact support@kidblog.org with any questions or comments.

Best,

The Kidblog Development Team

The Kidblog Development team is pleased to announce the release of three new themes for your class blogs.  

Kidblog Bluebird

Light-colored with a tall header, based on an original design by Randa Clay.

Kidblog Notepad

Notepad theme with dynamic, organic background. Based on original design by Evan Eckard and Smashing Magazine.

Kidblog Waterlily

Dark background with prominent waterlily featured in header. Based on original theme by Lisa Sabin-Wilson.

 

 

We’re committed to providing the most teacher- and student-friendly blogging platform available. We only release themes after a rigorous testing procedure to ensure that your students have a seamless blogging experience. Despite this testing process, if you do notice issues when using one of the new themes, please email support@kidblog.org and we’ll take care of it right away.  

Theme development is a high priority for us, so stay tuned for more options coming soon. Enjoy the new look of your class blogs!

-The Kidblog Development Team

Kidblog.org introduces its new Knowledgebase and help-ticket system. 

The addition of a variety of technical support articles will give current and future users a quick reference for our most frequently-asked questions. If you’re stuck on a task related to blog management, this is the place to start.

In addition, our new help-ticket system will streamline the process of resolving technical support issues.  You can open a new ticket directly from our website, or a ticket will be automatically generated for emails sent to support@kidblog.org. 

For general inquiries, questions, and comments please email info@kidblog.org. 

We look forward to this new resource benefiting all of our users.