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Return to Diigo Home Page Position Identification I completely agree with the use of Diigo in the classroom- provided it is done so through the educator’s account allowing a greater control for the teacher. There are a number of difficulties faced using programs that are not internally created by the school which is why it is necessary to be careful on which sites are appropriate and safe for student use.

Diigo also has Educators Accounts which can be found at [|www.diigo.com/education] and it provides students accounts for the entire class. To be upgraded to an Educators account from basic Diigo, all the teacher needs is to provide their school email address and answer basic questions about their school, class they teach and years of teaching. This is then sent away and assessed by Diigo and within 2-3 business days a confirmation will be sent via the school email the teacher provided. With the Educators account, the teacher then has the ability to set up a Diigo group for their class which allows group bookmarking and collaborative annotating. Privacy settings can be pre-set on student accounts and allows full communication between teacher and student. The teacher also has an option of limiting the content of the ads viewed on Diigo. Classmates are automatically added as friends and they are limited to only communicating with their ‘friends’ and teacher. Students are unable to be indexed nor searched in “People Search” function on Diigo nor made available to public search engines such as Yahoo or Google.