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Step One: Create your Custom Sidebar 1. First, activate Easy Custom Sidebar under Plugins in the left-hand menu of your Dashboard. 2. Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Theme Sidebars 3. Enter the Sidebar Name that you prefer (“Custom Sidebar 1” in this example) and click Create Sidebar. Once you have created your new sidebar you […]

A useful component of the Gravity Form plugin is the ability to allow people to schedule appointments with you by visiting your OpenLab site, such as for tutoring or office hours. 1. First, activate Gravity Form under Plugins in the left-hand menu of your Dashboard. 2. Go to Dashboard > Forms > New Form. Here, type […]

This plugin allows you to embed Google Forms, Slides, and Sheets into a post or page on your site. For example, the instructions below explain how to embed a Google Form so that it appears right on your OpenLab site, and your visitors won’t have to click a link to Google Forms and complete your […]

OpenLab GradeBook provides faculty with a simple and secure way to keep track of and share grades for a course. When logged into the OpenLab, faculty, as admin of their course site, will be able to enter and view all grades for their course via their course site dashboard, and each student will be able […]

If you’re looking for help cloning your own course, you can review our help document on Cloning a Course. Shared cloning is a separate functionality that can be enabled to allow other faculty to clone your course. Once enabled, other faculty will be able to clone your course, creating an exact copy of an […]

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

An OER (Open Educational Resource) badge appears on a Course or Project avatar to identify it as an official OER. Courses and projects with an OER badge can also be searched for in course and project directories. What are OER (Open Educational Resources)? As noted in the City Tech Library’s

Twenty Seventeen offers many options for customization, including a full-page header image and large featured images on the homepage and other site pages. Please note: Twenty Seventeen allows you to upload a video instead of an image for your header, but we strongly recommend against this since autoplay video is not accessible.  Please see […]

Readability is an important part of making a web document accessible to all users. Many of the following tips are adapted from the Town of Whitby Guide to Accessible Documents pdf. This document also includes market research done by the Nielsen Norman Group, as well as another article by Nielsen Norman Group. The OpenLab Help post Making your Work Accessible has more information on best […]

WP Accessibility helps correct a number of common WordPress accessibility issues. The plugin is activated by default on every OpenLab site, so you don’t need to activate it on your site, and you won’t see it listed in Dashboard > Plugins. The plugin is set up to correct the issues outlined below, but you […]