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This section covers a few of the things you’ll want to consider as you’re creating your course. If you haven’t already, please review “Distance Education Best Practices” which covers recommended pedagogical standards.  Contact OpenLab team with questions! Considerations Do you want to create a new course or clone an existing course? A new course is created […]

Signing up The first step is for your students to sign up for an OpenLab account, if they don’t already have one. Share this Setting up your account link with your students. A few things to note: Students need access to their City Tech email to join the OpenLab. The OpenLab help section provides instructions for students for accessing their City Tech email account and creating an OpenLab account […]

Using the OpenLab, faculty can create courses to share materials, hold discussions, collect assignments, grade coursework, and more. The first step is creating an OpenLab account using your City Tech email address. Join the OpenLab Sign up for an account. If you already have an account but have forgotten your password, you can

Welcome to the OpenLab! This section is designed to provide help for faculty who are using the OpenLab for distance learning, especially those who are new to the platform and perhaps to teaching with technology. What is the OpenLab? The OpenLab is City Tech’s open online community. It’s designed to support teaching, learning, and collaboration, […]

The Gravity Form Add-On plugin allows you to automatically send files uploaded with Gravity Forms to your Dropbox account.   To get started, if it’s not already activated on your site, activate Gravity Forms under Plugins in the left-hand menu of your Dashboard.  Then, activate Gravity Forms Dropbox Add-On.   Connect to Dropbox 1. Go to Forms > […]

Assignments on the OpenLab can take many forms, depending on the content, your teaching goals, your course’s student learning outcomes, and your comfort level with the technologies involved. Faculty have developed many creative assignments over the years that take advantage of the OpenLab’s features. Some examples are provided below, ranging from straightforward to more complex. […]

OpenLab passwords will expire and need to be reset every 180 days, or you can reset your password at any time if you forget it, or just want to change it. Required password reset Two weeks before your password is set to expire, you will see a notice at the top of the OpenLab after […]

An open assignment refers to any student coursework done on a public-facing platform like the OpenLab. These assignments are designed according to their purpose, content, and audience. Designing an open assignment requires answering some basic pedagogical questions. What is the goal of the assignment? Is it to have students talk to each other? To have […]

This page covers how to get students started on the platform, and how to interact with students online. Getting students started Signing up The first step is for your students to sign up for an OpenLab account, if they don’t already have one. A few things to note: Students need access to their institutional […]

The Hamilton theme is described as “a clean WordPress portfolio theme for creatives. It displays posts in a beautiful image grid that can be set to either two or three columns, which makes it a perfect fit for photographers, illustrators or graphic designers looking for a theme for their portfolio.” View this demo to see an example of what […]