In your COMS 463 Online Content project, you will be able to practice WordPress editing skills on a class-wide practice site before your team’s blog is ready.
As you accept the invitation to the practice site, you’ll be asked to c
reate an edurhetor.org WordPress account (based on your email address connected with your IT account at the U of C). Once you’ve been added to the WordPress site/blog, the instructor will change your user role to “admin” or “editor.”
You should not create your own separate blog. In COMS 463 your instructor will give your team a head start by setting up your blog space with an appropriate theme, header, a navigation menu, set of empty pages, a list of categories and their definitions, and perhaps also a style guide. This will make the process of creating content less haphazard and more visually pleasing.
When your WordPress space is ready for your content, you’ll each receive an email invitation to your team’s WordPress blog set up by the instructor.
User roles
Editor: All students besides Team Coordinators (who become admins) will become editors, with full access to add, delete, and edit content.
Admin: In this course, the instructor will be the main administrator of your teams’ sites/blogs on WordPress.com. This enables the instructor to have the access level needed to monitor and grade student work, to set up the overall layout and main structure of the site for your team, to view revisions and dates when items were posted, and to assist as needed.
Limiting the number of blog Administrators ensures that major features of the blog are less likely to be changed unexpectedly or by mistake. The instructor may share Admin access with the Team Coordinator and/or the Community Partner.