This article will show you how to find your secondary student blogs. You can do this in two ways; by using a query called “My Students Blogs” or by using “Netvibes”
“My Students – Blogs” Query
This query will give you a list of all your students and a URL preview of each blog. This is recommended if you want to just view a set of students’ blogs. You can choose to read each blog directly from the query or visit the blog site directly to make a post. You can visit a students blog from the query by clicking on the “open in new window” button(can be found at the top right corner).
You can find the “My Students – Blogs” query by logging into Veracross faculty portal and looking under the student queries section(can be found at bottom right of faculty portal)
Netvibes
Netvibes is a visual dashboard that we use to view recent posts made by students by homeroom group in order to keep up to date with students’ blog posts. This is recommended if you want to assign students to make a blog post then want to see that specifically titled post across a whole class of students.
You can access Netvibes from the NIST Blogs page, which can be found by logging into Veracross staff portal and looking under the News menu item.
Here is an example of what Netvibes looks like. You can navigate students blogs by homeroom by using the the homeroom tabs at the top. Whenever there is a new blog post, each tab and tile will have a notification icon. This notification icon will indicate how many blogs have new posts. Blog posts that have been read will be grayed out.
