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*With WordPress, you have several options for controlling who can see your site or portions of your site.
 
*With WordPress, you have several options for controlling who can see your site or portions of your site.
 
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Revision as of 18:13, 14 October 2016

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Site Visibility

  • Settings are located in Settings > Reading. Options include:
  • Publicly viewable and indexed by search engines
  • Publicly viewable but requesting search engines to not index your site
  • Requires a login (must be an Evergreen community member)
  • Requires a login and must be a subscriber of the site (this is the option we use to limit access to enrolled students only)
  • Only admins of the site


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Making your site visible

  • New sites by default are set to not be publicly viewable with the idea that faculty must time to work on the site before it becomes public.
  • To change your site’s visibility got to Settings > Reading
  • Either of the top two options will open the site to visitors. Other options require an Evergreen login and varying levels of access to the site.
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Enrollment

  • At the beginning of the quarter, enrolled students will be added as subscribers to the site
  • Additionally, faculty can add/remove users via Users > Add New
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Users and Roles

  • Users added to your site can be assigned a variety of roles with different abilities.
  • Subscribers can view content but cannot create regular site content. This is the default role students are assigned when added to your course.
  • Contributors can write and manage their posts but not publish posts or upload media files.
  • Authors can publish and manage their own posts, and are able to upload files.
  • Editors can publish posts, manage posts as well as manage other people’s posts, etc.
  • Administrators have access to all the administration features.


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Protected Files and Pages/Posts

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  • Even if your site is set to be publicly viewable you can require a login to access materials designated as Protected.
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File protection

  • Faculty can limit access to enrolled students for uploaded media files that must copyrighted protection.
  • Once a file has been uploaded to the Media Library you can edit items that should be protected by clicking Add to Protected under the Media Vault Protection Settings.
  • Choose "Use Default Setting" for file access permission (which is set to subscribers).


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Page/post privacy

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  • Choose which portions of your site are public and which are only viewable to your students.
  • By setting a page’s visibility to "Private" (in the Publish block) it will only be viewable to logged in users who are subscribers to the site (your students).
  • Note: you should still use file protection for media that needs protection even if it is only linked from a private page.

Additional Features

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Email enrolled students from within WordPress

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Discussion Forums


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Evaluation Conference Sign-up Sheets

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