HowTo: Getting a Username and Adding Students to Course Blog

How do I get a blog and/or Username on UMW Blogs?
Note: If you already have a blog and/or username on UMW Blogs you can skip the following two steps.

To setup a blog on UMW Blogs go to the sign-up page and enter a username, e-mail address (you must use your UMW email), and a password. Make sure the "Gimme a blog!" radio button is selected.



How do I change my password?
When you sign up for a blog, you will be given an automatically-generated password. It's a good idea to change your password first thing. To do this, login to your blog, go to the Users tab on the left side in the administrative back-end, and click on the Your Profile subtab. From here you can enter your personal information and change your password at the bottom of this page.



Once these steps are all completed, you should receive an e-mail confirming that you do, indeed, want a blog. Click on the link in the e-mail to activate your blog and log into your account.

Joining the Mysterium Humanum course blog
Now that you have a username and/or blog, becoming an author on the course website will be relatively easy. Go to the course site here and look for a login link on the sidebar.

Login into the site, which will most likely push you back to the front page of the course blog, and then look for the "Add me" button on the front page of the course blog and click it.

After that you will automatically become an author of the course blog, and you should now be able to click the login link and be an author on the blog.

Writing a post


This section is where you can write new blog posts and edit existing posts. Writing a post (as opposed to a page which is distinct from blog posts because pages remain outside of the blog's reverse chronology) is probably the lion's share of how you will use your blog. When writing a new post you can control the status, i.e., make the posts a draft, password protected, etc. You can also change the time stamp to control when the post shows up in the blogs chronology of posts.

Copying a MS Word Document into the Text Editor
Click on the button the arrow is pointing to below- affectionately termed the "Kitchen Sink"- in order to get additional options for your editing toolbar.

Go from this:



to this:



After following the step above you will see an icon with the MS Word icon in your visual text editor (which the arrow is pointing to). Click on this and copy the Word Document text into this window and save it. This strips out all the MS Word code and "cleans" the text for publishing on WordPress. There may be some minor formatting you have to update afterwards, but most of the formatting from MS Word should remain intact.

Categorizing a Post
Additionally, you will need to categorize your post according to the group you are a part of. For example, if you are in Group 1, you will need to check the radio button from the Categories Section in the post editor.

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