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school website yourself. What will you write today's school news to be?How to: save but not publish news items
A great way to get children to create items, then subject them to peer review, before publishing them to the front page. With your discussion group set for members only you can, in a small way control who sees news items that haven't been posted to the front page.
Ordinary members cannot post news items to the front page. They can only release them for the editor to post to the front. This stops children from editing items on the front page. You wouldn't want children editing things on the front page, since this is the most visible of pages.
| So, it is important to understand that once a news item is released it's not editable by the item's owner any more. (However, knowing that this is a shiny button waiting to be pressed we've added a way for editors to unrelease a released news item to allow children to begin editing their news item again.) Also, this is a way of returning the news item to the children for further editing, or polishing. To unrelease a news item, editors should view the pending news items page and check the item and hit Unrelease. See the difference in an editor's view and an ordinary visitor/member's view of the pending news items page. | ;newWindow.focus())
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Once a news item is created by a child, it's available to be edited upon via the discussion group. Find the item there, and begin posting responses as any other item in the discussion group.
This is a great way of other children reviewing an item before it's pushed up to the front page. This way children can get their news item perfect, before it's published to the front page.
