I really DON’T want the kids to be able to make their own blogs. A cvs option via the mysql database would expedite the process, but isn’t necessary. We are a very small K12 school, and we only have a few classes participating.

I can’t think of the methods, but you would be essentially given students the ability to create their own blogs. The admin level would be kept intact, and any security exploit would be easily conducted by someone not within the blog community, so security on student authority shouldn’t be much of a problem.

I wish I had links of the MU customization methods. But they are abound, and would make your MU CMS work a lot better.

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Registration can be disabled allowing only an administrator to create new accounts. Unfortunately, this requires a unique email for each user. This can be a hassle as you need a working email account to receive WPMU generated password. Not good news for elementary teachers whose students often don’t have email addresses. I will be looking for a hack to change this.

You could just use dummy email addresses, and manually edit the passwords. Only downside, if they’re not needing comment notifications, is they won’t be able to use “Lost your password?” link to get a new one emailed out.

This Google mail feature might also help. Allows you to create a large number of email addresses, all of which point to the same mailbox.