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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 […]

An OER (Open Educational Resource) badge appears on a Course or Project avatar to identify it as an official OER. Courses and projects with an OER badge can also be searched for in course and project directories. What are OER (Open Educational Resources)? As noted in the City Tech Library’s

Twenty Seventeen offers many options for customization, including a full-page header image and large featured images on the homepage and other site pages. Please note: Twenty Seventeen allows you to upload a video instead of an image for your header, but we strongly recommend against this since autoplay video is not accessible.  Please see […]

Readability is an important part of making a web document accessible to all users. Many of the following tips are adapted from the Town of Whitby Guide to Accessible Documents pdf. This document also includes market research done by the Nielsen Norman Group, as well as another article by Nielsen Norman Group. The OpenLab Help post Making your Work Accessible has more information on best […]

WP Accessibility helps correct a number of common WordPress accessibility issues. The plugin is activated by default on every OpenLab site, so you don’t need to activate it on your site, and you won’t see it listed in Dashboard > Plugins. The plugin is set up to correct the issues outlined below, but you […]

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, […]

To contact the OpenLab team, send an email to openlab@citytech.cuny.edu or use the form below. Please include a detailed explanation of your issue. We will get back to you as soon as possible.

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 […]