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Adding Categories and Tags (Block)
Categories and tags are keywords or phrases that are added to posts to help to organize information on a site. Categories are usually more broad, like the table of contents of a book, and tags are more narrow, like a book’s index. Categories can only be created by a site admin, but can be added […]
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Adding Categories and Tags (Classic)
Categories and tags are keywords or phrases that are added to posts to help to organize information on a site. Categories are usually more broad, like the table of contents of a book, and tags are more narrow, like a book’s index. Categories can only be created by a site admin, but can be added […]
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Types of Courses, Projects, Clubs, and Portfolios
Courses, projects, clubs, and portfolios can be categorized on the OpenLab in a number of different ways to help people narrow down their searches and find what they’re looking for. When a course, project, club or portfolio falls in one of the categories listed below, “badges” denoting its type or “category” will appear on its […]
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Distance Education Best Practices
Before creating your course, you’ll want to review the following Distance Education Best Practices below. How you design your course on the OpenLab and interact with students online will largely depend on factors like your class size, your level of familiarity with the OpenLab, your pedagogy, and your vision for the course. Remember that […]
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Embedding Video and Other Media (Block)
1. To embed a video or other media to your site from a video-hosting site such as YouTube or Vimeo, simply copy the URL of the video into a new Block. The link should immediately convert into an embedded form of your linked media. Other media will embed the same way. You can read more […]
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Categories & tags (Block)
Categories allow you to further organize the content of your site. Careful categorization allows your site posts to be grouped together with other similar posts on your site. This, in turn, helps users to better navigate your site. Note that all site posts are filed under categories. If you do not create your own post […]
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Creating pages on your Site (Block)
Creating pages on your Site 1. From your site’s Dashboard, click on Pages > Add New in the left hand menu. 2. Add a title to your page. You will notice that the title is automatically formatted in a title heading style. 3. Add content to your page by adding blocks. The default block […]
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Adding images & other media (Block)
PLEASE NOTE: Each site has a size limit and unnecessarily large images can take up more of your space than you’d like. If you are sharing many large images, we suggest hosting them with an external storage solution, such as Google Drive, Dropbox, or Flickr, among others. Instructions for embedding externally hosted images is
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Adding a link to a post (Block)
1. You can add a link to a post or page by highlighting the words that you would like to link, and clicking the link icon in the block toolbar. 2. Enter the URL for the link and either press enter or click the black arrow. This will add the link to the text you […]
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Writing a Post (Block)
1. From your site’s Dashboard, click on Posts > Add New in the left hand menu. 2. Add a title to your post. You will notice that the title is automatically formatted in a title heading style. 3. Add content to your post by adding blocks. The default block type is a paragraph block, […]
