How does Ping work?

Information for teachers, students and educators about how Ping works, what you will need to participate, and technical requirements.

What is Ping?
How do students use Ping?
Teacher information
IT requirements
Ping program flow

Help

Have a problem using Ping? Maybe this section can help.

I can't log in
Account activation error
No one can find my blog
I can't upload an avatar image

Getting Started

In this section we cover the basics from creating your account to setting up your blog.

Entrance Survey
Cyber safety
Creative Commons explained
Etiquette
What’s a URL, and why is it important?
What is HTML?
How To Create An Account
How To Create A Blog
An introduction to blogging on Ping
Your Account
Enabling video uploads

Blogging

How to write blog posts and organise them with categories and tags

Writing your first post
Categories and tags
Pingbacks & Trackbacks
How to change your blog’s header image

Media

How to upload videos and your music to your blog

Adding video
Uploading your music

Social Networking

Ping has social networking features like “friending’ people, sending messages and activity feeds.

Friending
Messaging
Joining Discussion Groups
Discussions