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Cloning a club will create an exact copy of an existing club, keeping all content created or uploaded by an admin, but any work created by club members will not be copied over.  The club avatar, club settings, and site settings will all remain the same, although you can change anything as necessary. 1. After […]

This plugin allows you to add a widget to your sidebar that generates a menu based on the section of your site you’re viewing. It will show all the subpages related to the page being viewed, and could be helpful for sites with large amounts of content. Activate plugin 1. Activate Advanced Sidebar Menu under Plugins […]

This plugin provides an easy interface for dragging and dropping pages to change the order and hierarchy of all pages on your site. 1. Activate Nested Pages under Plugins in the left-hand menu of your Dashboard. 2. Once activated, you’ll notice that when you go to Dashboard > Pages, it looks different. This is the plugin’s […]

Gravity Forms is a very robust plugin that allows you to create and embed forms on your OpenLab site. Through these forms, you can do many different things, from polling users, collecting contact information, to organizing reservations for events, and more. If you are using Gravity Forms to poll users or create a quiz (Block editor) / poll users or create a quiz (Classic editor), you have […]

Gravity Forms is a very robust plugin that allows you to create and embed forms on your OpenLab site. Through these forms, you can do many different things, from polling users, collecting contact information, to organizing reservations for events, and more. To use these different functions, you’ll first need to activate the plug-in, and […]

This plugin allows you to highlight text in a page or post, as well as to add inline notes with your highlights.   1. If you are the site administrator, you will first need to activate the Highlighter Pro Plugin under Plugins in the left-hand menu of your Dashboard. 2. To highlight text in an OpenLab post […]

Categories and tags are keywords or phrases that are added to posts to help to organize information on a site. Categories are usually more broad, like the table of contents of a book, and tags are more narrow, like a book’s index. Categories can only be created by a site admin, but can be added […]

Categories and tags are keywords or phrases that are added to posts to help to organize information on a site. Categories are usually more broad, like the table of contents of a book, and tags are more narrow, like a book’s index. Categories can only be created by a site admin, but can be added […]

Courses, projects, clubs, and portfolios can be categorized on the OpenLab in a number of different ways to help people narrow down their searches and find what they’re looking for. When a course, project, club or portfolio falls in one of the categories listed below, “badges” denoting its type or “category” will appear on its […]

Before creating your course, you’ll want to review the following Distance Education Best Practices below. How you design your course on the OpenLab and interact with students online will largely depend on factors like your class size, your level of familiarity with the OpenLab, your pedagogy, and your vision for the course. Remember that […]