More and more, WordPress for WWU is being used in courses as a way of encouraging students to create web based content- which is awesome. But for faculty with large classes, or now classes with a mix of students on and off campus, it still can be a grind for a faculty to setup a site for a class needing to individually add every student from that class to that site. However, over the summer an update came out that now allows site owners the ability to create invite codes to a WordPress for Western site, and set their role of those invited upon enrolling into the site using a generated link.

In using the Users > Invite Users setting, you can even bypass the need for students to have already created a WordPress site prior to being added. This was especially confusing, or frustrating, before if classes had a high level of freshman and new to campus students who have never used WordPress for Western before.

Now with this invite code process, the link will allow the site admin to bypass the need for students to have to create a site upon being enrolled to the WordPress for Western site.

This 6min video walks you through the ins and outs of; adding students to a site in bulk, adding them individually, and when to do either with which role.

If you are interested in this and want to know the difference between using this method (which I would recommend) over My Class (in most cases here at WWU I wouldn’t use it), you can read my previous post here.