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1. Choosing a theme allows you to determine the visual aspects, or “look,” of your site.  You can change your site’s theme by going to your site Dashboard and clicking Appearance > Themes in the left-hand menu.  Additionally, you can customize your current theme by clicking Appearance > Themes and then clicking Customize underneath the […]

1. To create a page on your site, go to your site Dashboard and click Pages > Add New in the left-hand menu. 2. On the following screen, you will see a title line, a text box, and a formatting toolbar.  Here you can enter a title for your page and the content that you […]

With most themes, you can create custom menus on your site.  Custom menus give you the option of modifying how viewers access the particular content on your site.  For example, custom menus allow you to change where your page links appear on your site, they allow […]

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 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 […]

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 […]