Step 4: Quality Commenting (IV)

 Commonly Asked Comment Questions 
  There are some commonly asked questions that we receive at Edublogs Support. Let’s break them down.

1. How do you enable comments on pages? 

      Most Edublogs themes support comments on pages and by default comments are disabled on pages.

      2. Why will not comments display on pages?
       
       Most Edublogs themes support comments on pages, however, there are a few themes that do not. If the theme you are using does not support comments on pages, and you would like this feature,then  you will need to use an alternative theme.

      3. How do I make comments display on my homepage?

      Traditionally comments are designed to be displayed under a post and you view the comments by clicking on the post title or the comments link.It is done this way because posts can have hundreds of comments and displaying them directly under a post on the post page can make it hard to read the comment. Most teachers display the comments on their homepage by adding the Recent Comments widget to the sidebar.

      4. How do I remove the option to add email address to comments?

      By default, anyone leaving a comment must leave a valid name and email address. Please note, readers will still see the name and email address option on the comment form but the email address is no longer required to submit a comment. This option is often used when teachers don’t want students to use their email address.

     5. How do you stop the “Posting Comments too quickly” message?

     Comments allow your readers to add feedback to your posts and pages. Unfortunately, if all your students are submitting comments at the same time to a class blog on your school computers they may see the ‘You are posting comments too quickly. Slow down’ message and they might lose their comments.

    6. How do I moderate all comments?

     The default comment setting on all newly created blogs is ‘Comment author must have a previously approved comment before a comment appears’. This means any visitors that have had a comment approved on the blog in the past will have their comment immediately posted and only comments from new visitors are placed in the moderation queue.
Your Task 
Complete the following tasks:

1.  Choose one of the activities for developing commenting skills, complete the activity, and then leave a comment to share what you created or to let us know how you went. The activity number 7º, is about how to write A quality blog comment. “After some time, I noticed a stand-still in commenting. It appeared that students were posting a lot but no commenting, which limited the amount of student learning from their peers via feedback “.
2. Read through the most recent comments in reply to this step and leave a response to another person’s comment. I agree with mrscrowningshield comment about created a guideline for their students, when they