<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Mr. King,<div><br></div><div>Multisite, without question, is the way to go.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm from Henrico and we tied in LDAP with this plugin <a href="http://wpmuldap.tuxdocs.net/">http://wpmuldap.tuxdocs.net/</a> You get a blog on login that's named with your LDAP username. We are not currently allowing users to add additional blogs on their own. </div><div><br></div><div>It's working well for us with 2,566 blogs and 26,100 users as of today.</div><div><br></div><div>If you'd like any other information, I'm happy to try to help.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Tom</div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Tom Woodward</div><div>Assistant Director</div><div>Instructional Technology</div><div>Henrico County Public Schools</div><div>804-652-3031</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 9, 2011, at 9:26 AM, <<a href="mailto:wp-edu-request@lists.automattic.com">wp-edu-request@lists.automattic.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Send wp-edu mailing list submissions to<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="mailto:wp-edu@lists.automattic.com">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com</a><br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-edu<br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>wp-edu-request@lists.automattic.com<br><br>You can reach the person managing the list at<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>wp-edu-owner@lists.automattic.com<br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of wp-edu digest..."<br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. Wordpress for all! (King, Mr A)<br> 2. Re: Wordpress for all! (Tim Owens)<br> 3. Re: Wordpress for all! (King, Mr A)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 13:45:32 +0000<br>From: "King, Mr A" <a.king@macmillan-academy.org.uk><br>Subject: [wp-edu] Wordpress for all!<br>To: "'wp-edu@lists.automattic.com'" <wp-edu@lists.automattic.com><br>Message-ID:<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><3791CC6677D37747BF2CF983FCD67F5D06C3F6@Mac1.macmillan-academy.org.uk><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br><br>Hi,<br><br>I am head of ICT in a secondary school in Middlesbrough, UK. I have used WordPress for a number of years as a personal teacher blog - http://www.macmillan-academy.org.uk/staff_blogs/mr_king/<br><br>I am happy to say that since its introduction, we now have a large number of staff with their own personal Blog.<br><br>I am looking into the feasibility of getting every student who joins us their own blog. I want them to use it to showcase their work throughout their school life and for friends, family and teachers to comment on the work they produce. I think it will help to instill pride in the work they produce.<br><br>I would like to know what are the options for proceeding. We are a large school with 220+ students in each year group, so setting the blogs up student by student like we do for the teachers is not an option. I have heard something about WordPress MU, but not sure if this is related?<br><br>Ideally, we would like to export a CSV list of our students accounts from our Network from active directory, and for this in some way to be used to generate individual student blogs.<br><br>Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.<br><br>Many thanks<br><br>Adrian<br><br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <http://lists.automattic.com/pipermail/wp-edu/attachments/20111209/e21d70fa/attachment-0001.htm><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 09:02:02 -0500<br>From: Tim Owens <genial@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [wp-edu] Wordpress for all!<br>To: wp-edu@lists.automattic.com<br>Message-ID:<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><CAPaV0RR52e050Ab2PGunodV5kDfBaR0ZfiCdEjc7=b6V9k8cTQ@mail.gmail.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>Multisite is absolutely what you're looking for (previously called<br>Wordpress MU but it's now built into Wordpress). I'd highly recommend this<br>ebook to get you started on that setup:<br>http://wpebooks.com/2010/09/how-to-enable-multisite-in-wordpress/.<br><br>You can setup blogs from a CSV file using this paid plugin as well:<br>http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/batch-create although some on the list<br>here may know of some free options for accomplishing that task. Another<br>option you might consider is having a blog automatically be created the<br>first time a student logs in (could reduce the number of blogs that might<br>get generated automatically and then remain empty). There are plugins to<br>build in Active Directory login for the system and then when they login the<br>blog would be created. I know some folks doing that in a K12 environment in<br>Henrico, VA and can likely get documentation if you'd like to go that route.<br><br>We run a rather large multisite setup here at the University of Mary<br>Washington for a few years now and it's great for collaboration. We have<br>courses running solely on that system instead of a learning management<br>system and we have organizations using it to publish their content like the<br>school newspaper. I think you'll be quite pleased with what it has to<br>offer. If you have any questions don't hesitate to let me know!<br><br>Tim Owens<br><br>*Instructional Technology Specialist*<br><br>*University of Mary Washington*<br><br>*(540) 654-1510*<br><br>On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:45 AM, King, Mr A<br><a.king@macmillan-academy.org.uk>wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"> Hi,****<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I am head of ICT in a secondary school in Middlesbrough, UK. I have used<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">WordPress for a number of years as a personal teacher blog -<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">http://www.macmillan-academy.org.uk/staff_blogs/mr_king/****<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I am happy to say that since its introduction, we now have a large number<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">of staff with their own personal Blog.****<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I am looking into the feasibility of getting every student who joins us<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">their own blog. I want them to use it to showcase their work throughout<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">their school life and for friends, family and teachers to comment on the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">work they produce. I think it will help to instill pride in the work they<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">produce.****<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I would like to know what are the options for proceeding. We are a large<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">school with 220+ students in each year group, so setting the blogs up<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">student by student like we do for the teachers is not an option. I have<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">heard something about WordPress MU, but not sure if this is related?****<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Ideally, we would like to export a CSV list of our students accounts from<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">our Network from active directory, and for this in some way to be used to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">generate individual student blogs.****<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.****<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Many thanks****<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Adrian ****<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">** **<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">wp-edu mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">wp-edu@lists.automattic.com<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-edu<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <http://lists.automattic.com/pipermail/wp-edu/attachments/20111209/d9a8ce03/attachment-0001.htm><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 3<br>Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 14:25:54 +0000<br>From: "King, Mr A" <a.king@macmillan-academy.org.uk><br>Subject: Re: [wp-edu] Wordpress for all!<br>To: "'wp-edu@lists.automattic.com'" <wp-edu@lists.automattic.com><br>Message-ID:<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><3791CC6677D37747BF2CF983FCD67F5D06C418@Mac1.macmillan-academy.org.uk><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br><br>Many thanks Tim - this is excellent information.<br><br>I think purchasing the e-book is a good start, although the automatic creation of a blog using Active Directory also sounds good. If you could find anything from your contact in Henrico that would be much appreciated.<br><br>Many thanks for your time<br><br><br>____________________________________<br>Adrian King<br>Head of ICT<br>Macmillan Academy<br>Stockton Road<br>Middlesbrough<br>TS5 4AG<br><br>Tel | 01642 800 800 (Switchboard)<br>Tel | 01642 354 481 (Direct Line)<br>http://www.macmillan-academy.org.uk<http://mac1.macmillan-academy.org.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=e6afd10a771644d5933853bb1b716bf0&URL=http%3a%2f%2fexchange.macmillan-academy.org.uk%2fexchweb%2fbin%2fredir.asp%3fURL%3dhttp%3a%2f%2fwww.macmillan-academy.org.uk><br><br><br><br>From: wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-edu-bounces@lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Tim Owens<br>Sent: 09 December 2011 14:02<br>To: wp-edu@lists.automattic.com<br>Subject: Re: [wp-edu] Wordpress for all!<br><br>Multisite is absolutely what you're looking for (previously called Wordpress MU but it's now built into Wordpress). I'd highly recommend this ebook to get you started on that setup: http://wpebooks.com/2010/09/how-to-enable-multisite-in-wordpress/.<br><br>You can setup blogs from a CSV file using this paid plugin as well: http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/batch-create although some on the list here may know of some free options for accomplishing that task. Another option you might consider is having a blog automatically be created the first time a student logs in (could reduce the number of blogs that might get generated automatically and then remain empty). There are plugins to build in Active Directory login for the system and then when they login the blog would be created. I know some folks doing that in a K12 environment in Henrico, VA and can likely get documentation if you'd like to go that route.<br><br>We run a rather large multisite setup here at the University of Mary Washington for a few years now and it's great for collaboration. We have courses running solely on that system instead of a learning management system and we have organizations using it to publish their content like the school newspaper. I think you'll be quite pleased with what it has to offer. If you have any questions don't hesitate to let me know!<br><br>Tim Owens<br><br>Instructional Technology Specialist<br><br>University of Mary Washington<br><br>(540) 654-1510<br><br>On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:45 AM, King, Mr A <a.king@macmillan-academy.org.uk<mailto:a.king@macmillan-academy.org.uk>> wrote:<br><br>Hi,<br><br>I am head of ICT in a secondary school in Middlesbrough, UK. I have used WordPress for a number of years as a personal teacher blog - http://www.macmillan-academy.org.uk/staff_blogs/mr_king/<br><br>I am happy to say that since its introduction, we now have a large number of staff with their own personal Blog.<br><br>I am looking into the feasibility of getting every student who joins us their own blog. I want them to use it to showcase their work throughout their school life and for friends, family and teachers to comment on the work they produce. I think it will help to instill pride in the work they produce.<br><br>I would like to know what are the options for proceeding. We are a large school with 220+ students in each year group, so setting the blogs up student by student like we do for the teachers is not an option. I have heard something about WordPress MU, but not sure if this is related?<br><br>Ideally, we would like to export a CSV list of our students accounts from our Network from active directory, and for this in some way to be used to generate individual student blogs.<br><br>Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.<br><br>Many thanks<br><br>Adrian<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>wp-edu mailing list<br>wp-edu@lists.automattic.com<mailto:wp-edu@lists.automattic.com><br>http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-edu<br><br>Scanned by MailDefender - managed email security from intY - www.maildefender.net<http://www.maildefender.net><br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <http://lists.automattic.com/pipermail/wp-edu/attachments/20111209/799f3fe2/attachment.htm><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>wp-edu mailing list<br>wp-edu@lists.automattic.com<br>http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-edu<br><br><br>End of wp-edu Digest, Vol 30, Issue 1<br>*************************************<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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