How To Create a Blog in Sharepoint

For Secondary Educators

To Create…

From your home page, click on SiteActions and Create

Then click on Sites andWorkspaces

Title and Options…

Name your new page

Choose the URL

Choose Blog

Title and Options (cont.)…

Select No

Click Create

Setting Permissions…

To set the permissions so that studentscan contribute to your blog, selectManage comments.

Setting Permissions…

Setting Permissions…

By choosing Anonymous Accessyou are allowing anyone with access to the internet to yourblog.

Setting Permissions…

Another thought about permissions: You can set it up so that only students/faculty will have the ability to comment on your blog. Instead of clicking Settings -> Anonymous Access,Go to New -> Add Users.

Setting Permissions…

When you click “Add all authenticatedusers,” this group will appear.

Uncheck “Send an e-mail”

Versioning? What is that???

Click settings on the breadcrumb trail.

Versioning? What is that???

Here is where you clickto require content approvalfor every comment that is postedon your Blog. REMEMBER, you areresponsible for what is postedon your blog!!!

Enough Already!!!

Click on Advanced Settings. We need to ensure that students cannot edit each other’s comments.

Advanced Settings…

Once all of these settings are in place(which by the way, you only have to do this once!), we can publish our first post. Click back to your Blog tab.

Creating a Post…

Creating a Post…

Once you fill out the titleand body, click Publish andyour topic will post to yourblog.

Title

Body

Tutorial…Need to see it again?

Here is a quick tutorial to walk you through the steps of setting up a blog site: http://www.sharepointhostingprovider.com/sharep

oint-tutorials/CreateBlogSite.htm

Examples… http://agi.seaford.k12.de.us/sites/jforjan/blog/d

efault.aspx http://agi.seaford.k12.de.us/sites/gzoll/honors

blog/default.aspx http://agi.seaford.k12.de.us/sites/nmiller/sstho

ughts/default.aspx http://agi.seaford.k12.de.us/sites/rsalisbury/bl

og/default.aspx