Under “Users” click “Add New”.
Enter the user name and e-mail address of the student you wish to add to the system.
Select the student’s role. (See important note below.)
Click “Add User”.
Note: Selecting roles for students is an important part of the administrator’s job, and it’s the main way that the site stays secure. Students must be “invited” to become part of the site, and their roles should be considered carefully. As the administrator, you can change the role of a student at any time, and you can also delete a student from the site. Purging names from the staff list should be done at the end of each semester or year – whenever the staff changes.
You are the administrator of the site. This means that you can exercise complete control over the site. We strongly recommend that you be the only one who has that role.
We also recommend that you select two or three (at most) of your most trusted and mature students as editors. Editors have the power to post onto the live site and can edit and change the articles produced by other students. This is a position of power and trust that should not be taken lightly.
Here is how WordPress defines the other roles that you can give to your students:
- Editor – Somebody who can publish and manage posts and pages as well as manage other users’ posts, etc.
- Author - Somebody who can publish and manage their own posts
- Contributor - Somebody who can write and manage their posts but not publish them
- Subscriber – Somebody who can only manage their profile
