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This section covers a few of the things you’ll want to consider as you’re creating your course. If you haven’t already, please review “Distance Education Best Practices” which covers recommended pedagogical standards.  Contact OpenLab team with questions! Considerations Do you want to create a new course or clone an existing course? A new course is created […]

Signing up The first step is for your students to sign up for an OpenLab account, if they don’t already have one. Share this Setting up your account link with your students. A few things to note: Students need access to their City Tech email to join the OpenLab. The OpenLab help section provides instructions for students for accessing their City Tech email account and creating an OpenLab account […]

Using the OpenLab, faculty can create courses to share materials, hold discussions, collect assignments, grade coursework, and more. The first step is creating an OpenLab account using your City Tech email address. Join the OpenLab Sign up for an account. If you already have an account but have forgotten your password, you can

Welcome to the OpenLab! This section is designed to provide help for faculty who are using the OpenLab for distance learning, especially those who are new to the platform and perhaps to teaching with technology. What is the OpenLab? The OpenLab is City Tech’s open online community. It’s designed to support teaching, learning, and collaboration, […]

Assignments on the OpenLab can take many forms, depending on the content, your teaching goals, your course’s student learning outcomes, and your comfort level with the technologies involved. Faculty have developed many creative assignments over the years that take advantage of the OpenLab’s features. Some examples are provided below, ranging from straightforward to more complex. […]

1. To reset your password click on the “Forgot Password?” link in the “Log in” box on the OpenLab homepage. 2. Enter your username or City Tech email address, and you’ll receive a link via email to reset your password.   3. You will receive an email with the subject “[City Tech OpenLab] Password Reset” […]

If you’re looking for help cloning your own course, you can review our help document on Cloning a Course. Shared cloning is a separate functionality that can be enabled to allow other faculty to clone your course. Once enabled, other faculty will be able to clone your course, creating an exact copy of an […]

Cloning a project will create an exact copy of an existing project, keeping all content created or uploaded by an admin, but any work created by project members will not be copied over.  The project avatar, project settings, and site settings will all remain the same, although you can change anything as necessary. 1. After […]

A widget is a tool that adds different functions to your site. Most sites come with certain widgets already installed, but you can add to and remove them by following the steps below. 1. Go to your site Dashboard and click Appearance > Widgets in the left-hand menu. 2. Choose a widget and […]