Primary Technology

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<ModulePrefs title="Embedded Primary Pad in iGoogle" height="300" width="300" />
<Content type="url" href="http://primarypad.com/faq?sidebar=0" />
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This may be a bit more tricky than most other embed options as it means creating an .xml file  - See above.

Primary Paint is now in public beta, you can check it out by going to your primary pad and clicking the paint brush icon.  Let us know what you think via twitter @primaryt or @primarypad or as a comment on this blog!

Screenshot:



How to put it onto your blog:

1. Log into your admin panel
2. Click Appearance - Widgets
3. Drag a new Text widget to your sidebar
4. Open a new Tab in your internet browser
5. Goto http://revolvermaps.com
6. Click Get Standard version
7. Set the size (Recommend 180x180
8. Set the style and colors
9. Copy all the contents of the box "Copy the code to your side" 
10. Go back to your Primary Blogger dashboard Tab
11. Click the down arrow next to Text (This may already be open, if it then skip this step)
12. Paste the contents of your clipboard

Alternatively just drag the Feedjit or Map Stats widget over for an alternative appearance.

Want to make it so pupils blogs can't be read without the "viewer" being logged in?

1. Login to the pupil blog
2. Click Settings -> Members components
3. Click Private Blog
4. Click Activate

Done :)

We assume you have already created a class or school blog.  If not, go and sign up now, it's free and easy.

Creating individual pupil blogs on Primary Blogger:
1. Login to your Primary Blogger Account at yourblog.primaryblogger.co.uk/wp-admin
2. In your address bar type in the address of the new pupil blog
3. Type in your pupils blog title
4. Decide if you want this blog to be searchable by search engines such as Google & Bing.
5. Click Create Blog
6. Click the blog address which will read something like http://mrpurple5.primaryblogger.co.uk
7. Click Site Admin
8. Click Plugins -> Installed
9. Click Activate under Pupil Interface
10. Click Settings -> Discussion
11. Click Users -> Add New
12. Type in a chosen username
13. Type in the pupils email OR your email address in the format of youremail+%pupilsusername%@googlemail.com
Example:  If your email address was mrsJRobertson@greatschool.mgfo.org.uk and you type mrbloggy in the Username box then the email address you will type in is mrsJRobertson+MrBloggy@greatschool.mgfo.org.uk
Note: This works with the following email providers: School Email, Primary Email, Gmail
14. Under Role select Administrator
15. Click Add User
16. Check your email inbox for an activation email
17. Click on the activation link in the email, write down the blog address, username and password and give it to the pupil.
Note: You may want to simplify their desktop and restrict comments, see below:

Highly Recommended
Restricting comments to pupils and teachers only.
Click Users must be registered and logged in to comment if you only want other teachers and pupils to comment on this Blog

Sending pupils an email when a new comment is posted on their blog.
If you want pupils to recieve emails for comment moderation then:
1. Click Plugins -> Installed
2. Under Notifications to all Administrators Click Activate

Simplifying the pupils dashboard/interface. (see picture at top)
1. Login as the pupil
2. Click Screen options
3. Remove any items you don't want
4. Click 1 Column
5. Click Screen Options

Simplify the interface even more:
This process is difficult and lengthy, we will document it soon!

We recommend Primary Email for a great full school email solution

We are doing a number of deployments lately of home access systems and we wanted to make it clear that we do not install any software that spies on you or your child at school or at home.

We migrated to some new servers yesterday and at 7:30am today the ISP hosting the server began having issues, we are waiting on an update to the situation. We will keep you posted with updates as we receive them. This is now resolved

Primary Pad is now available worldwide and has a 6 month trial option available for professional accounts.

Yet again we need your help! We are going to be able to re-open pro account registration for Primary Pad and we want to know how long you think the free trial accounts should exist for? When the free trial duration has ended the school can either pay to continue to use Primary Pad or use an alternative solution or keep using the free basic pads. :)

Thanks for everyone who voted on the last poll, basic accounts are now restricted to 6 active users.

We are currently working on testing our fail-over systems so we may have some downtime of the following services:

Today the memory went out to the primary pad server, giving us some more resources to play with. We are super happy :) Yay!!! Expect stability to be the norm now, and if you are following us on twitter then expect more requests for stress tests!

Want to hide the chat/sidebar from users when they connect? We made it really easy for you!

Simply add ?sidebar=0 to the end of your PAD url, IE http://primarypad.com/test?sidebar=0

We have temporarily disabled new pro account sign ups and disabled all accounts that registered and never logged in.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused. We are doing this to ensure only educational users use the service.