Multi user and education blogs

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    cdickie73 · Member ·

    Hi everyone,
    Im new to wordpress and just wanted to gain some insights and advice.

    I work as a design lecturer and I am in the process of setting up a new blog for my students and colleagues to access. Overall I guess we want to achieve a variety of things;

    * For staff to post and provide images, articles, and links etc – for students to access and use inspiration/research sources

    * Provide information source for students – dates, details, deadlines etc, and also as a route to students own design work.

    There are lots of little things we would like to add eventually – online galleries, events calendar, polls and feedback on teaching… and so on.

    At the moment I have set up on wordpress.com but I’m already beginning to contemplate if we should be on .org. As part of the setup the students have registered with wordpress, and I now have a blog with one administrator and approximately 37 authors – each of these authors has an individual wordpress.com page. These numbers will increase by approx’ another 15 and I will need to add another administrator/staff member soon.

    One dilemma we have at present is wether to setup multiple blogs, and example might be – one for artwork and galleries of student work, another for “things we like” and inspiration sources, and another for info and facts. This strikes me as long winded. Any thoughts?

    Another issue is – because of the educational nature of the site – is how we can categorise our blog feeds. Can we have more than one – year 1, 2 and 3 being an example?

    So given this confusion any help on wordpress.com vs wordpress.org would be great. Sorry for the very long question.

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    raincoaster · Member ·

    I think if you want online galleries and events calendars integrated directly into the site, you’re going to be looking at WordPress.ORG pretty quickly. The sooner the better, as it means you have fewer people to shift over to the other site.

    If you decide to stay here (and my advice is that you not) then I suggest you set up one blog but use many different categories and kinds of posts, eg asides, galleries, etc. You can have a category for each year of the course, and then people can subscribe to the posts tagged Year One, etc.

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    timethief · Member ·

    I agree that what you want to do points to hiring a web host and setting up a WordPress.org install. Please see here > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

    You may also want to look into edublogs as that’s what that platform is dedicated to. Blogging for teachers and students, made easy
    Since 2005, Edublogs has been hosting blogs and providing custom blogging platforms to individual teachers, school districts and hundreds of thousands of students. We’ve grown to become the largest, most trusted, best supported and widely used way for teachers and students to engage with the world of blogging
    See here > http://edublogs.org/

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