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CampusPress Guides for Students

CampusPress is a tool for creating blogs and websites for teaching and learning purposes. Powered by WordPress, students can create and manage their own blogs, using a range of accessible themes.

It is available to all students by going to campuspress.leeds.ac.uk and logging in using your University username and password. 

You can choose to use your personal blog for various functions including:  

  • Public record of achievement   
  • Private journal 

You may also be asked to create a blog as part of a module activity or assessment, which is known as a class blog.

How to login to CampusPress

This guide explains how to access CampusPress.

Creating a Personal Blog

Get started with using CampusPress by creating your own personal blog.

The Dashboard

This guide contains information about how to start building your blog.

Privacy Options

This guide explains the different privacy settings that are available.

Adding Users

This guide explains how to add additional users to your blog.

Accessibility

This guide contains information about the in-built accessibility checker in CampusPress.

Creating a blog and connecting it to the class blog for your module

Follow this guide if you have been asked to create an individual blog as part of a teaching activity or an assessment.

Joining a collaborative class blog

Follow this guide if you have been asked to join onto a collaborative class blog as part of a teaching activity or assessment.

Guidance on publishing content online using Digital Education Systems

All content created in CampusPress is subject to the conditions detailed in our publishing content online guide.

Community Guidelines

This set of guidelines contains a list of useful considerations and links to University policy related to blogging.