Giving students some admin rights gives them ownership of the blog tool AND gives you a break from constantly updating!
When you add USERS to the blogsite, you can choose the degree of control they will have over the blog:
- Administrator– total control, including the ability to remove other Administrators
- Editor– slightly limited, but still powerful
- Author– can write and edit posts
- Contributor– can edit
For more detailed info, see FAQs: Different users’ Roles which includes this helpful advice:
Be careful what roles you give people, especially if you want them to be an Editor or joint Administrator – Editors can delete content, and Administrators can remove users, including you. Promoting someone is easy – removing a role is much harder.
I would love to hear what others think about this. It is all a bit experiment at this point. I am working with student USERS on the following blogs:
Waimea Senior Music – students are full administrators and can add other users. Means I need to keep an eye on content, but haven’t had any trouble yet. I add quite a few posts to this site to pass on notices to the kids.
Camerata Choir– students are full adminstrators, and they also conduct this choir. The condition is that I remain an administrator. Again, no probs. I try not to add anything to this and just watch over it
Posted by Chris Burcin 
