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Permalink Reply by kolson on January 18, 2008 at 2:36pm

My advice would be to make it required that all comments must be moderated before appearing, and then just not approve them. that way you'll see them and kids won't. Let me know if that doesn't work in blogspot.........i'm not very familiar with it, but I think most blogging platforms allow you to change the security/discussion settings.

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Permalink Reply by Darin on January 19, 2008 at 5:36pm

I think this will work. Thanks for the help.

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Permalink Reply by Elizabeth Davis on January 18, 2008 at 7:00pm

I like @kolson's suggestion a lot. You could also set up a ning site for your class and have students blog their answers. You can set your blog preferences on Ning for each blogpost to only allow your "friends" to see your post. Then have students only "friend" you.

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Permalink Reply by James Durkan on January 23, 2008 at 12:45pm

As far as I can see, unless you want to unveil all the answers at some point in the future for peer-evaluation or whatever, it might be easier to manage this by simply have them message you their solutions.

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Permalink Reply by Jack Phelps on January 28, 2008 at 4:59pm

Hi Darin,

I hope this message isn't too commercial for you, but I occasionally troll ning looking for people whose problems my company can help solve. I run ChitChat, which is an "educational network" that, among other things, let's teachers create interactive class web pages. By "interactive" I mean several things, but probably the most important one (and the most pertinent to your question) is that students can respond online to posts by their teachers, following which teachers can write feedback into students' work just like with a red pen. We also turn standard LATeX syntax into rendered equations, which might make it easier for you to write problems for your students. We're working on RSS enabling everything and have been adding features pretty rapidly since our recent launch (coming relatively soon are discussion forums you can add to your class, wiki-editable posts, and a class enrollment system so you can let students share work without it being visible on the open web).

I won't belabor the discussion here as it's not really a commercial forum, but I'd be thrilled if you'd check it out, and hopefully we can help you out. Or, if you don't like something, I'd love to hear what/why; maybe it's something we'll be adding or fixing. Good luck!

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Permalink Reply by Jeff O'Hara on January 28, 2008 at 7:21pm

Well you could just turn Moderation of your comments on and then never actually publish them. It would allow you to see the answers in the moderation queue, then if you desired after everybody commented you could publish the comments or not.

-Jeff
http://edmodo.com

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