We’re excited to announce that iSchool Blogs has been upgraded to WP 2.9.

The new version contains major functionality and feature enhancement to the blog admin panel. Some of the new features includes easier video embeds that allow you to just paste an URL directly into your contents. Build-in image editor allows you to crop, edit, rotate, flip and scale your images directly from the site without using external image editor.

To get familiar with the upgraded interface and features, please visit our online user guide with link http://ischool.tv/doc-blogs-v2/.

The iSchool Blog is specially tailored for SMJK users i.e to teachers and students of the SMJK communities, whereby the user is authenticated with the account in Google Apps under the smjk.edu.my domain. Thus it is not possible to add an user outside the SMJK domain.

However, you may create the user with a Google Apps account and give him the access as student or staff member from your school under the SMJK domain using the User Management ~> User Account ~> Create option on the SMJK admin panel in smjk.edu.my.

iSchool Blogs is now enhanced to allow you embed the following into your blog’s content.

Google Services

Google Maps is a free web mapping service application and technology provided by Google offering powerful, user-friendly mapping technology and local information-including business and school locations.

Please refer to Embedding Google Maps on how to embed Google Maps in your blog.

Google Calendar is a contact and time management web application offered by Google. With Google Calendar, it’s easy to keep track of all your life’s important events such as school exam schedules, birthdays, reunions, appointments – all in one place.

Please refer to Embedding Google Calendar on how to embed Google Calendar in your blog.

Google Docs is a free, Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation application offered by Google. With Google Docs, you can create and edit documents online while collaborating in real-time with other users.

Please refer to Embedding Google Documents, Embedding Google Spreadsheet and Embedding Google Presentation on how to embed them in your blog.

Scribd

Scribd lets you publish and share documents online. It makes use of a custom Flash document viewer that lets you display documents right in your Web browser.
You can publish and shares documents in Word (.doc), PDF (.pdf), text (.txt), PowerPoint (.ppt), Excel (.xls), Postscript (.ps) etc.

Please refer to Embedding Scribd Document on how to embed them in your blog.

WPMU deletes all the posts and blogroll links upon user master profile delete request submission. With this, we’d developed a new plugin that will transfer the posts / links’ ownership from deleted user to blog owner / site administrator prior to the profile deletion. If the deleted user is the blog owner, this Plugin will re-assign the post author to site administrator. This Plugin is implemented to our products that are powered by WordPress engine ie iSchool Blogs and iSchool Contests.

We have provided School Blogs Deletion option and the priviledge is granted to School Portal Administrator or Web Administrator only to perform the function. To do it, please refer to our online documentation on How to Edit my School Blog?

It is important to take note that once the school blog is deleted, all those users’ or co-curriculums’ blogs blogroll or links shall be removed. In the event whereby you create your school’s blog again, all those existing users and co-curriculum blogs will not be listed in your newly created school blog’s blogroll. Thus, you need to add in their link manually to your school blog. To do it, please refer to our online documentation on What are Blogrolls? for details.

iSchool Blogs is finally going live on 10/08/2007. All SMJK Schools’ Principals and Administrators have officially informed via e-mail on this launching. This new has also announced in http://smjk.edu.my so that all school users within the SMJK community are awared on the launching.
iSchool Blogs is specially designed for schools and educators. It provides various ways to effectively use blogs in teaching and learning at all levels. Please visit this site: http://blogs.smjk.edu.my/ischool-blogs/ for more details.

Please refer to our online documentation for iSchool Blogs Manual that will guide you on how to get started for Bloggers and also for School Administrators. Should you need further assistance, please contact us at support@perridot.com.