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In addition to adding individual images to a post or page, you can also add an image gallery. 1. From the Edit Post or Page screen, click the Add block button and select Gallery. 2. In the gallery block that appears below, you can either choose images that you’ve already uploaded to your Media Library, […]

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. You can add a link to a post or page by highlighting the words that you would like to link, and clicking the link icon in the block toolbar. 2. Enter the URL for the link and either press enter or click the black arrow. This will add the link to the text you […]

The following screencast covers how to create and edit posts and pages. You can also find step-by-step instructions on how to create a post below.

What are blocks? Blocks are individual elements containing all the content you add to a post or page. They can be easily rearranged by dragging and dropping within the editor. Blocks include text such as paragraphs, lists, headings; individual images and image galleries; embeds from YouTube, Vimeo, Soundcloud, Prezi, Twitter, and more; and visual elements […]

In December 2018 with the release of WordPress 5.0, the Block editor (also known as Gutenberg) became the new default post and page editor, replacing the editor that has been around since the beginning, now called the “Classic” editor. The Classic editor will be officially supported by WordPress through the end of 2021, and while […]

The Course Site offers an easy and powerful way for students and faculty to add and share content. You might ask students to write posts, participate in discussions, share documents, and work collaboratively on projects. You can also use the site to display important course information, collect student work, and provide feedback and grades. If […]

These are just a few of the hundreds of courses running on the OpenLab, selected to illustrate some of the ways your colleagues are using the OpenLab for distance education. You can also check out the many courses we’ve featured In the Spotlight in the past, or explore the Courses directory for courses in your discipline. Questions? Contact us at openlab@citytech.cuny.edu. You can also join the conversation in the Open Pedagogy […]

You can provide students with grades and comments using two tools for grading on your Course Site, WP Grade Comments and OpenLab Gradebook. You can add these plugins to your site by going to your site Dashboard and clicking Plugins > Installed Plugins in the left-hand menu, following these instructions. If you are using the Course Profile […]

The OpenLab offers tools for adding quizzes or polls to your site. For specifics about grading see the Grading section. Gravity Forms Quiz Add-On You can use the Gravity Forms Quiz Add-On plugin to set up quizzes for your students. You can view the results in the Dashboard (only admins — students can’t view results), set up quizzes to be […]