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  • Adding plugins to your Site

    Plugins add functionality to your course, project, or club site.  A plugin may allow you to create, manage, or edit features of your site that you cannot normally create, manage, or edit without the addition of a plugin.  You can view available plugins by going to your site Dashboard and clicking Plugins > Installed Plugins. […]

  • Categories & tags (Classic)

    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 […]

  • What is a “Site” on a Course, Project, Club, or Portfolio?

    1. If you are faculty, you can create a site on the OpenLab as an extension of your course, project, or club.  Your site provides an additional online presence for your […]

  • Writing a post (Classic)

    1. From your site’s Dashboard, click on Posts > Add New in the left hand menu. 2. Add a title and content to your post.  You will notice that many of the formatting buttons such as bold or text alignment look similar to those in common word processing and email programs.  You can type […]

  • Adding images & other media (Classic)

    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

  • Embedding video on your Site (Classic)

    1. To embed a video to your site from a video-hosting site such as YouTube or Vimeo, simply copy the URL of the video onto a single line on a “Post” or “Page” in the content area. 2. When you click Publish in the right-hand menu, your embedded video will appear on the published post […]

  • Adding a link to a post (Classic)

    1. You can add a link to a post or page by highlighting the words that you would like to link, and selecting the link icon in the toolbar. 2. Enter the URL for the link and click the blue button with the arrow. This will add the link to the text you highlighted. 3. […]

  • How do I get to my Site?

    1. You can reach your site by logging in to the OpenLab and clicking My OpenLab in the main menu.  In the right-hand menu on the following screen, click the appropriate category for which you have either created or joined a site (i.e., My Courses, My Projects, My Clubs) and then click the site title on […]

  • Commenting on a Site

    1. When you are viewing a post or a page on a course, project, or club site, you will usually have the option of leaving a comment.  Comments usually respond to the content of a post or a page (e.g., expand a conversation, answer a question, etc.).  To leave a comment on a site, you will need to

  • What is the Site Dashboard?

    1. When you type in the URL, or web address for your site, or if you navigate to your site from the OpenLab Profile, you are viewing the public side or “front-end” of your site.  If you have kept your site public, anyone can see this. 2. The private section of your site is called […]