Incredibly simple educational blogging blatform

My Take

Kidblog's is an incredibly simple to use, yet powerful educational blogging platform. I literally set up a classroom blog in under five minutes, including adding a couple of test student accounts. I liked how I was able to authenticate using my Google login; no new login account required. Kids are able to login with their own name, not a generated user ID.

Teachers have the ability to create student accounts, but there's no requirement for doing that. Kidblog generates a secret code that students can use to add themselves to the class blog. Each student gets their own control panel and ability to customize their own blogging space, but is attached to the class blog as well.

Security can be customized to make all posts private, viewable only to members of the class; or, you can make your blog publicly visible; or, you can collaborate with other classes using Kidblog.

The one feature I did not see that would be desirable is a community of publicly viewable Kidblog classrooms that one could discover and interact with. That's why a rated it down in content/pedagogy.

The System is based on WordPress, which was a welcome familiarity. There are a number of themes that kids can choose from. Although all WordPress functionality is not enabled, the most important features are available such as media uploading and embedding, as well as post tagging.