Using the Progressive U site and its features

There are several features that allow you to connect with other bloggers. Of course, the blogs themselves allow you to discuss any topic with other people on the site. However, there are other features we have available as well.

Profiles

The rating feature allows users that are signed in to rate blogs on a scale from 1 to 5 (with 5 being the best). The five blogs with the highest rating on the site at a given time are featured in the 'Highest Rated posts' block on the right side of the screen (a blog must have a minimum of 3 ratings to be placed on this list).

Linking to other posts is fairly simple if you follow the steps below.

• When you entering the body text for a new post, you will see a link icon that looks like a chain in the toolbar above the text entry area.
• Highlight the text in your post that you want to link from, then click on the link icon.

At the bottom of your post, before the comments fields, you should see text that says something like "15 reads." In this case, that means that your post has been read 15 times. Every time someone loads the page for your post in their browser, either by clicking on the title of the post, or by clicking on "read more," or by coming from another website, the counter will go up by one.

There are a few ways of determining this.

Subscriptions: ProgressiveU will send e-mails to your account to any blog or forum topic you have subscribed to.

• Your blog: before you submit, check the box in the 'subscription' menu under the body of your blog/forum topic.

While most people will never want to change or delete their blogs, in certain cases, a user may see it as valuable or necessary to do. Duplicate blogs should be deleted as soon as possible, in order to prevent having to later delete one with comments. The moderators would love your help in this endeavor, so here is how you delete a blog:

1) Click to open the blog you wish to delete.

We rely on the ProgressiveU community to help us identify and remove posts that do not belong on ProgressiveU. If you come across a posting in the forums, in a blog or even in a comment that you feel violates the Terms of Service of ProgressiveU, we ask that you flag it for review by a member of the A-Team.

Every ProgressiveU user has their own in site inbox. This feature allows for users to privately communicate with other users, moderators and ProgressiveU administrators when the occasion arises. Private Messaging another user can be useful in many situations.