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Strategies for creating student accounts

Strategies for creating student accounts - WordPress Tutorial

From the course: WordPress for Education: Multisite

Strategies for creating student accounts

- Now let's shift gears to our second example for this course, of creating and managing a multi-site network for students. If you're following along, I'm in the student's or site's multi-site network that we created in an earlier movie. Many campuses already have a WordPress multi-site service available for your students, so you may be able to simply leverage that system for your class. You likely will not be given the same latitude in managing the site for your students, but campus implementations generally have broad campus-wide support and the advantage of being tied to your campus single sign on system, allowing students to use their regular campus accounts to sign in with. If this is available at your campus, by all means take advantage of it. If not, then one of the first challenges that you'll face is how to create accounts for all of your students in your class. We've already seen how you can manually create accounts via the network admin Add User form. If you have a small…

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