Using elgg with EFL & ESL students :: Blog :: Setting up multiple student accounts with elgg

One thing I found difficult was setting up multiple student accounts with elgg.

Obviously, you can get students to set up their own accounts, but I decided to do it beforehand for my Catalan Culture group to save time. Plus, previous experience had told me that if you let students set up their own accounts, then aat least 5% of them will forget their username and/or password, and it becomes a pain/time-waster.

Anyway, I went to set up accounts for my 30 students and ran into problem #1:

1) You need a unique e-mail address to set up an account on elgg. I didn't think about this. I'm used to Blogger, which allows you to use the same e-mail address no matter how many accounts you set up.

So, I had to create a unique gmail account for every student before I could create an elgg account for them. this, of course, meant it took me a lot more time to set up the elgg accounts.

I'd quite like this feature to be changed.