Controlling Blog Comments

You have several options for controlling the comments made to your blog.

Start by looking under the "Settings" tab for "Comments."

The first choice you have in controlling blog comments is to answer the question "Who Can Comment?" Your choices are 

• Anyone (This includes Anonymous Users)
• Users with Google Accounts
• Only members of the blog

If you want to restrict comments in your blog to classmates, you could set the blog permissions and limit readers to only other classmates. The next step would be to restrict comments on the blog to only members of the blog, or only people that you have allowed to read your blog.

Comment moderation
Another way to restrict comments is to have the Comment moderation option ticked as "Always." This ensures that you read any comment before it gets posted.

For more on Comment moderation, see the Blogger Help topic on "How do I moderate comments in my blog?"

Word Verification
A third way of restricting comments (and reducing spam) is to tick, "Yes" for "Show word verification for comments?"

Requiring people leaving comments to complete a word verification step will help reduce spam.

For more about Word Verification, see the Blogger Help topic on "What is the word verification option?"