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For more information, check out the plugin developer’s very thorough documentation and FAQs. Create a table and add it to a post 1. Activate the TablePress plugin. 2. On your site’s Dashboard, click TablePress > Add New Table in the left sidebar. 3. Add the table name and choose the number of rows and […]

Group admins and moderators can now add announcements to the profile of a Course, Project, or Club. Members can reply to announcements. Adding an Announcement to your Course, Project, or Club Profile To edit the profile of a course, project, or club, make sure that you’re logged in, and that you are the administrator or […]

The Twenty Twenty-Two and Twenty Twenty-Four themes are quite different from the other themes on the OpenLab. They introduce a new functionality called full site editing, which uses blocks for all parts of the site, rather than just posts or pages. Menus and sidebars are created with blocks rather than through separate interfaces in Appearance […]

Embedding a board from Miro is very simple! Just like other types of embeds, you simply need to paste the URL. 1. Copy the URL of the board, which should look something like this: https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVOb3jDOA=/?fromEmbed=1 2. Paste the URL on its own line in a paragraph block, or add an embed block and paste the […]

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 Favorites feature allows any logged-in member of the OpenLab to bookmark courses, projects, and clubs. You don’t have to be a member to save to Favorites. When you visit the profile of a project or course, a button will appear beneath the avatar that says Add to Favorites. 1. In order to favorite a […]

This plugin allows you to transfer content from Microsoft Word to a WordPress site more easily, without losing formatting. In addition, any accessibility-related changes, such as alt text and heading styles, that you’ve added to your document will be preserved. 1. Activate Mammoth .docx converter in Dashboard > Plugins. 2. When writing or editing a post […]

Any public or private group on the OpenLab can be made non-joinable. You can also think of this as a group being made invitation-only. However, this only affects who can become a member of the group; who can view the group and its content still depends on the group’s privacy settings.  For example, a public, […]

Much work on the OpenLab is collaborative: members co-create projects and courses, clone groups and OERs that others have created, use model courses that others have created as templates, and draw inspiration from others’ work. There are two different ways to acknowledge past sources for your group.  If you have cloned a group, acknowledgements to […]

This feature allows you to automatically add students with existing OpenLab accounts to your course using a list of student emails. 1. Go to your Course Profile > Membership.2. Click Invite New Members. 3. At the bottom of the page is an option for Import Members to Your Course. 4. Here you can paste a […]