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City St George’s Blogs staff guide

Explore how to set up and use City St George’s Blogs for teaching and learning activities.

Add a user with legacy City email address to a blog

As a blog administrator, you can use the Invite Users feature to register users with legacy @city.ac.uk addresses to your blog. Ensure that your invite link is set to the right role to ensure that they have the correct permissions on your blog. Send the invite link to the users' City email addresses.

Monitoring users posts and comments

  • Advise your users not to provide any special category and/or sensitive data that could identify a living individual.
  • As a blog administrator, you will be responsible for ensuring that users post appropriately within City's Conditions of Use policy and remove any inappropriate posts or comments from the blog.

Add a user with legacy St George's email address

Log a request on IT Self Service Portal that includes a list of blog URLs that the user with a St George's legacy email address requires access to and indicate what role they should have on each of the blogs. The team will create a local account and add the user to the relevant blogs.

How can an external examiner view a student blog?

Complete the Create/Extend Account Request Form via the IT Self Service Portal.

Log a request on IT Self Service Portal that includes a list of blog URLs that the external examiner requires access to and indicate what level of access the External Examiner should have on the blogs. The Subscriber role is recommended as this enables the External Examiner to view the blog(s), read comments and write comments.

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