When I first started this blog, I was teaching sixth grade. When I made the transition to my new job, I didn’t want to lose the memories that this blog had, but I was no longer “surviving sixth grade”….I guess I’d “survived”…lol.
Two years ago when I first become introduced to Google Apps and we were trying to find away to get our 6th graders email accounts so they could share things that they’d created with us, I bought a domain from GoDaddy to apply for a school level GAFE.
I’ve been working off and on (waaay more off than on) to mask the “Surviving Sixth Grade” url with my “mrsjeff2u.com” domain. I’m not much of a informational text reader, so I was just like….eh….I’ll figure it out. I did…but I didn’t…ya feel me?
But after the initiation of @EdTechBoC I figured….I better figure this out! And I did. 🙂 So if you have a custom domain that you would like to use – but you don’t want start your blog all over again….here are the steps.
- Log into your Edublogs account.
- In the Dashboard, click on Tools > Domain Mapping
- Enter your custom Domain and then click “add”.
- Log into your DNS control panel. (For me that meant that I went to www.godaddy.com, clicking on Domains > My Domain > DNS Zone File).
- Configure your DNS records using the DNS configuration information on your domain mapping page.
- Click the Edit icon in the @ row under A (Host)
- Change Points to the A record IP address shown on your domain mapping page (copy and pasting is fine) and then click Finish.
- Scroll down to www. under CName (Alias) and click on the Edit icon.
- Change Points to the CName record shown on your domain mapping page and then click Finish. Please note that GoDaddy doesn’t allow you to use the dot of the end of the CName, so don’t add it.
- Click “Save Changes”.
- Go to back to Tools > Domain Mapping inside your dashboard and click Activate. It normally takes at LEAST an hour for it activate.
