Well, besides the fact that you get to manage, control, create and generally be the boss of all the blogs on a Campus site (not to mention hosting them all on your own domain!) there are actually a few other pretty cool ways in which you can put your Campus account into operation.

So for your delectation, and because everyone loves a list… here are 10 ways you can use Edublogs Campus to make serious change in teaching and learning online at your school, college, uni or educational institution of choice!

1. Provide simple to use but powerful webpages for every class

Ever wanted to have a webpage for every year, class, teacher and student… well, the blogs that you get with Edublogs Campus do exactly that. They can have static front pages, look just like a regular website and be customized to whatever look and feel you fancy. It’s never been easier to get your whole school online.

2. Give every student their own eportfolio, publishing and reflective learning tool

As well as being great website tools, the blogs can equally effectively be used as eportfolios where students can simply upload, post or embed their work. But they don’t have to stop there! As a simple publishing tool for photos and stories or as a private or shared reflective learning log, Edublogs Campus blogs are hard to beat!

3. Surpass the paper newsletter with something far more interactive

Not only is it simple for students, parents and other staff to subscribe toany blog but it’s equally easy for them to leave comments, and for you to manage entirely which comments are displayed and which are not. Now, your regular class newsletter can spare the dead trees and allow parents and students to comment freely.

4. Showcase your brilliant teachers, students and school on the web

Parents, and especially parents or prospective students, are increasingly using the web to scout out good schools and this is one way you can make a definite impression. Edublogs Campus is highly Search Engine Optimized (SEO) so, if you choose, you’ll be able to create a significant place on the web that is easily found and shows your quality.

5. Get your materials, resources, plans, minutes and more online, easily

It used to be the case that getting anything up online was a daunting prospect involving FTP, third party services and worse. Not any more! With Edublogs Campus your teachers and students can simply upload documents, images, videos, audio and more and share it in seconds… and we provide you with unlimited space and bandwidth!

6. Provide private, public and semi-public blogs with a couple of clicks

Your privacy and security is really important to us and that’s why we’ve configured Edublogs Campus to allow you to set three levels of access. Your entire site can be completely private to only registered users, some blogs can be public and others private or your whole site can be open. And you can always password protect individual posts too.

7. Get your teachers talking, with each other and the world

Blogging is a great way to reflectively communicate your ideas, aspirations, thoughts and reactions and the edublogosphere is a vibrant example of how much that can help teachers (check out the edublog awards for example). Give your staff the chance to join in, and while they’re at it raise the profile of your organization.

8. Embrace the social web and kickstart your school into the future

There’s no stopping it, the web is becoming increasingly a place of comments, feeds, blogs, widgets and ‘web 2.0′ or ‘social’ applications. Getting an Edublogs Campus account is a great way to start building up your staff’s literacy in these technologies and empowering them to take their first steps into the interactive web.

9. Let each teacher use it each and every way they want

We’re quite serious here… if you look through all the tens of thousands of edublogs created at our free site you can see teachers using blogs in a myriad of different ways, from homework reminders to discussion forums and more. Sometimes the most exciting and worthwhile thing you can do is let your teachers (and students) experiment.

10. Replace your entire school website!

We’re quite serious here… you can easily use Edublogs Campus to replace almost any website. It’s got contact forms, subscription built in, is highly customizable, editable by any staff member (or student!) and is supported, regularly updated and fully hosted by us at no extra charge. You could even save a lot of money!