Thursday 30 April 2020

Google Classroom: How to Create a Class

 Google Classroom can be created very easily by following the steps given below:


Open a Web browser and go to classroom.google.com. You have to sign in with your Google Account.
When the Google Classroom page loads, click the plus sign at the top right and choose Create Class from the options.
In the Create a Class dialogue box, type in the Class Name and provide the other optional information like section, subject and room.
Click Create.
Your Class will be created in a few seconds.
Watch the video tutorial to learn more


 
Click here to learn how to add classworks - assignments, quizzes etc to your class

Tuesday 28 April 2020

How to Add Scrolling Images to Blog

In the previous post we have seen how to add scrolling text the blog using <marquee> tag. The same tag can also be used to add scrolling images to the blog.
In a library blog, the scrolling images will be useful to display the covers of the books newly added to the library.

How to Add Scrolling Text to Your Blog

You can have a scrolling text added to your blog using the HTML tag marquee. Though marquee tag is deprecated now, it still works in almost all the browsers.  Here I will show you how to use the tag to have scrolling text or images added to your blog.

Copy Paste from Word to Blogger : How to Rectify Formatting Issues

You can copy and paste text from MS Word to Blogger and you might have noticed that Blogger retains most of the formatting from the Word document in the post also. But the post when viewed on a browser may not look nice, especially if you have some numbered or bulleted text or table in it. If you try to change the formatting of the pasted Word content you get some weird results and it make things more difficult.

This happens because the formatting of MS Word is not the same as Blogger formatting. You can tidy up the HTML in the following ways.

Blogger Tutorial Part XII: Theme and Layout - Gadgets Continued

In this video tutorial we will see the remaining gadgets on Blogger.
We will see the list links gadget and create a menu bar for our blog. The other gadgets covered include popular posts, feeds and blog list

Blogger Tutorial Part XI: Theme and Layout II

Blogger Tutorial Part XI: Theme and Layout
In this video you will learn few more gadgets like
- Adding a featured post to hightlight any one special post
- Adding a search box to blog
- Adding HTML/Javascript (This is a very useful gadget which can be used for many purposes. We will have a separate session on this)
- Adding followers and button to follow your blog
- Pages Gadget: making your pages visible and creating a menu bar below your header

Blogger Tutorial Part X: Theme and Layout

Blogger Tutorial Part X: Theme and Layout

 This is the first part of the sessions covering the theme and layout. Theme and layout determines the look and feel of your blog and is full of interesting gadgets to explore. In this tutorial I have included the following
- Change and customise your blog's theme and layout: how to change background colour, how to change width, change layout and number of sidebars, how to add an image as background and change the color and font style for blog elements like title, body, hyperlinks etc.
- Changing layout and adding gadgets in this session covers : changing the favicon for your blog, creating an attractive image header for your blog, changing display of blog archives (the links to your posts) and making them in the chronological order from old to new.

Blogger Tutorial Part IX Settings - Other and User Settings

Blogger Tutorial Part IX
In this video, the remaining two options under settings are covered i.e Other and User Settings
You will learn to:
- Backup your blog content and restore
- Backup your blog theme and restore it
- Manage videos you have uploaded on blogger
- Manage site feeds
- Manage your blogger profile

Blogger Tutorial Part VIII: Settings - Search Preferences Settings

Blogger Tutorial Part VIII: Search Preferences Settings
In this video, you will learn about the basic search preference setting on Blogger.
These settings will help you get your blog better indexed on search engines.
- Add a search description to your blog that will appear on search engine results
- Add a search description for your posts
 - Add a custom error page with some informative messages
- Make a static page as your homepage of your blog
- Redirect your blog traffic to another page
- Make a Static Page your home page


Blogger Tutorial Part VII: Settings - Email, Language Formatting Settings

Blogger Tutorial Part VII: Email, Language Formatting Settings
In the basic settings, we have seen how to add authors to collaborate in our blog. When we add an author we allow them access to the blog and post content without our approval before posting.
Another way to get others to post on our blog is to enable post through e-mail feature where we can give a secret blogger email id to our students/collaborators to send their posts/articles. The received posts will be saved as draft posts which we can open and review before deciding whether to publish it or not.
Also we will discuss setting blog language and creating our blog in languages other than English

Blogger Tutorial Part VI: Settings - Posts, Comments and Sharing Settings

Blogger Tutorial Part VI: Posts, Comments and Sharing Settings
In this video you will learn
- how to control the number of posts that should appear on home page
- how to restrict comments on your blogs
- how to moderate blog comments


Blogger Tutorial Part V: Blogger Setting - Basic Settings

Blogger Tutorial Part V
Now we will be discussing the various Blogger settings. You need not make changes to many of the Blogger settings as the default will work fine for normal users. So if you are confused about any of the settings you may ask and I will explain it.
This video will cover the following
- Changing your Blog Title
- Adding a Description
- Privacy Settings
- Changing Domain Name and Adding Third Party Domain Names
- Blog Permissions: Adding Collaborators
- Blog Readers: Restricting Access to Your Blog

Blogger Tutorial Part IV: Post Setting and Creating Pages

Blogger Tutorial Part IV: Post Setting and Creating Pages
In this session we will discuss
- Compose and HTML Tabs in Post Editor
- Adding Labels to Categorise Content
- Scheduling a Post
- Adding Location to your post
- Enable/disable comments for a post
- Creating Pages
- Difference between Blogger Posts and Pages

Blogger Tutorial Part III: Insert Hyperlinks and Videos in Your Post

In this video you will learn to insert hyperlinks in your post and to insert video in your post.

Blogger Tutorial Part II: Add Content to Blogger

Tutorial Part II: Add Content to Blogger
In this tutorial you will learn
- How to create a post
- How to add images to your post
- How to manage the images

Blogger Tutorial Part I: Create Your Blog

Blogger is a free blogging platform offered by Google. Anyone with a Gmail id can create a blog on Blogger completely free. Blogger provides blogs as a subdomain under blogspot.com.
Creating a blog on Blogger is very easy and no technical skills are required to get your blog working within a few minutes. First you should have a Google account to create a blog.


Thursday 23 April 2020

Blogger Features and Limitations

Blogger is a free blogging platform by Google and the free blogs are hosted as a subdomain of blogspot.com. It is completely free and can be used to create a simple blog without any technical knowledge. Anyone with a Google account can create a blog on Blogger without making any payment.

Q. How many blogs can I have on Blogger?
Ans: You can creates up to 100 blogs on Blogger using a Google account. I think that will be more than enough!

Q. How to create multiple blogs using a Google Account?
To create more blogs, follow the steps below
Login to your Blogger account.
In the Blogger Dashboard click on the title of your blog on the top-left side. In the drop-down click on New Blog... link to create a new blog.

Now provide the title and address for your blog as you have done for your first blog to create the blog.

Q. How many collaborators can be added to a blog?
Ans: You can have up to 100 collaborators or authors to your blog.

Q. What is the maximum number of posts I can have on my blog?
Ans: There is no limit for number of posts or pages you can have on your blog. Blogger provide an image storage limit of 1 GB. Uploaded photos or videos will count towards your storage limit if:
If either the height or width of your photo exceeds 2,048 pixels.
The video is longer than 15 minutes.

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