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You can create a site on the OpenLab to provide an additional online presence for your course (faculty only), project, or club where you can create content (e.g., blog posts), maintain content (e.g., a syllabus, project description, or club mission statement), and engage in discussion with other site users. 1. To create a […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

Images that you upload are integral to the appearance and message of your OpenLab presence. From your My OpenLab profile to your Course, Project, or Club and their sites, images play a very important role.  Hence, it’s important to use these images ethically and legally. Here are some ways to find images that are meant […]

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. […]

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 […]

When you are viewing a post or a page on a course, project, club, or portfolio site, you will usually have the option of leaving a comment to respond to the content of a post or a page (e.g., expand a conversation, answer a question, etc.). Sometimes comments have been limited to only logged in OpenLab members, so if […]

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 […]

Courses on the OpenLab offer an online extension of the classroom-learning environment.  They can provide a forum for students and faculty to maintain ongoing conversations and collaborate outside of a set course time, and a space to share and discuss each other’s work.  Each course offers a Discussion forum, Docs for collaborative editing, a place to upload Files, and a Site where […]