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TEACHERS: Tips for following your students' posts
Unfortunately, the "muut" forum is not set up well to be able to follow or find individual users, and there is no way explicitly to have all of your students be in a single group.
But there is a way you can keep track of your students' posts and comments.
You need EACH of your students to send you their username. Note that this may not be the same as their "display" name (it is originally, but they can change their display name!).
The easiest way for them to find out their user name is to look in the top right corner of the page where their display name is and click on their display name.
Then a dialog box comes up with their info. At the top of the dialog box it shows their user name as:
"@____"
So for me, username hodin, it shows
@hodin
If you go to this page you can see all my posts and comments:
http://web.stanford.edu/group/inquiry2i … s#!/@hodin
Likewise if you simply replace the "@hodin" in that URL with anyone else's user name ("@___") then you can see *their* posts and comments as well.
Try it with your own account and see how it works.
So...if all of your students tell you what their user names are ("@___") then you can check all of your students' posts and comments.
please reply below with any questions about or problems with these instructions
Thanks for this, Jason. I have created another spreadsheet with all student data, and on it I also put the average for where they live (as our school is a distance learning school). I have asked them to put their username (should have said display name, but I think they figured it out) on the spreadsheet. They are not getting as involved as I hoped they would in the discussion. Does anyone have any hints on how to get them talking? I'm so glad there is a way to see how many times they've contributed to the discussions! I see the discussions range far and wide beyond the general theme of carbon footprint. Interesting! I'm tempted to pipe in on the student discussion, asking questions to get them thinking, but I'm resisting because this is their space - right?
you should go ahead and comment! I certainly do 