Help my students post to my course Wordpress site

September 20, 2016 2:33 PM

I teach media arts, and am trying to get my (college) students to post to our class blog, which is at a wordpress.com site. I have invited them all as authors. I am the admin. The students who have never used WP before are posting fine. However, the students who have their own wordpress sites are having a hard time, because when they try to post, they are only given the option to post to their own sites.

I tried inviting myself at another email address, and when I log and click the "+" to add a blog post, I'm given a simple dropdown menu to select which blog to post to. However, the students are evidently not seeing this dropdown menu.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

posted by betsbillabong to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

Does the class blog show up on the My Blogs page? If so, is the Dashboard field set to Visible or Hide?
posted by sparklemotion at 2:53 PM on September 20, 2016

Can they open an incognito window when logging into your site?
posted by MsMartian at 4:58 PM on September 20, 2016 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Thank you both! Sparklemotion, that's a good question. I'm going to send the question out.

MsMartian, do you mean like private browsing? My understanding is that they need to be logged into Wordpress in order to post to the blog. But please, correct me if I'm wrong!

And I guess I should have said, too, that I'm not running any plugins.

Thanks, all.
posted by betsbillabong at 2:25 PM on September 21, 2016