Category: primary technology

Moderating Blog posts and comments on PrimaryBlogger

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When it comes to being e-safe online without thwarting creativity PrimaryBlogger has your back.

Moderation of comments:
a) Spam filtering software detects unwanted spam.
b) Pupils cannot see unmoderated comments.
c) Teachers moderate comments.
d) Pupils can only see approved comments.

Moderation of posts:
a) Teachers can receive emails when a new draft is published by a pupil.
b) Teachers can select to moderate posts before a pupil publishes it to the internet.
c) All posts on PrimaryBlogger are checked by a human after being published

PrimaryWall is available for FREE download!

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Want to host PrimaryWall in your school for your pupils/teachers and/or customize the look & feel? Good news! We open sourced the project so you can go ahead and download it now!

We open soured PrimaryWall as part of our ongoing commitment to Open source software and community engagement/control over technology. We will still be providing PrimaryWall.com as that is where we will be developing new features.

PrimaryPad being used — Writing/search task

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We thought this was a good example of teacher/pupil engagement with PrimaryPad. Here you can see the timeslider being used to play back the document progress.

PrimaryBlogger updates

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We updated PrimaryBlogger to WordPress 3.1.1 on the 9th of April, everything has gone to plan.

Enjoy the new features and access to new plugins! :) Please report any bugs on the community page.

Adding google search to your VLE or Learning platform

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This is a question I keep getting asked so I wanted to answer it.

“How do I put a google search onto my VLE or website or Blog”

Firstly, it is wrong that the google search on your VLE or Learning platform should show adds.

Secondly, if it does then whoever put it on is probably making money off it (we see this a lot and its a disgusting trend to make $ out of childrens searches in the bid they click on adds)

So yeah of course its doable for free and easily. What you want (assuming your a school) is a safe search without adds and focused on education.

Right, anyways.. The best solution is Primary School Safe Search

Read this guide and which will give you what you need to add some code to make this happen, but don’t worry its just copy and paste..