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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 plugin allows you to create a Site Archive file (.zip) that will be downloaded to your computer and can be imported into another WordPress site. This can be a site you host on your own, or on another platform like the CUNY Academic Commons or BMCC OpenLab. You can also share a site with […]

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 […]

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 […]