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Accessibility means ensuring that people with disabilities can use, interact with, and contribute to websites, web tools, and the materials they contain. Making websites and materials accessible also often makes them easier for everyone to use and understand. The information below outlines what you should do to improve accessibility on your own Course, Project, Club, […]

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This page describes the accessibility features of the OpenLab. Visit the CUNY IT Accessibility site for resources and information on technology accessibility for students, faculty, and staff at The City University of New York (CUNY). For information about making your work on the OpenLab accessible to all, visit the Accessibility on the OpenLab section in Help or the City Tech Library’s Introduction […]

Category Sticky Post for WordPress is a plugin that allows you to mark a post as sticky within a specific category archive. It works exactly like the typical sticky post functionality within WordPress, except that it’s specifically for category archives. To use it, first activate the plug-in. Once you do, you’ll […]

Gravity Forms is a robust plugin that can do many different things, from polling users, to collecting contact information, to organizing reservations for events, and more. It also has an add on that makes for a great way to give and automatically grade quizzes. To use it, first you’ll need to activate the plug-in. You can […]

This very simple plugin can do wonders to organize a site with multiple users, just by making sure users don’t forget to pick a category. To use, it first activate the plugin: When users don’t select a category, they’ll see a pop up reminder that won’t allow them to publish the post without first […]

This is a very simple plugin that will allow sticky posts (posts that you want to “stick” to the top of a page) to expire on their own. Once expired, they will move down the page to appear in reverse chronological order like any other post. 1. Go to Dashboard > Plugins to activate […]

The Prezi WP plugin allows you to embed a Prezi presentation into a page or post.  Much thanks to Boone Gorges for creating this, and the team over at the CUNY Academic Commons for some of the language here. 1. To embed a Prezi presentation into a WordPress post or page, you will first need […]

The WP Grade Comments plugin is very simple to use, and it has an easy interface for privately leaving grades only the post creator and administrator can see. Once activated, you’ll see the two options appear next to any post. Easy! 1. Activate the plugin via the left hand menu on your dashboard. […]