We have a couple of events coming up featuring our student community team we’d like to let you know about!
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CUE CONFERENCE
First, our team will be presenting at the CUNY CUE conference on May 8th. The conference starts at 9 am at City College, and you can register here.
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The annual City Tech Literary Arts Festival Approaches!
City Tech will host its 34th Annual Literary Arts Festival on Thursday, March 26th, at 5:30 p.m., in the Voorhees Theater. The poet Dinaw Mengestu will be this year’s guest speaker. The event is free and open to the public.
… Continue reading this postThis week we wanted to let our new student community team introduce themselves! Check them out below, and don’t forget to follow The Buzz for all their wonderful work.
Hello I’m Jean-Luc Antoine, I am a student majoring in Bioinformatics. The program is pretty challenging but what I particularly like about it, is that it’s a link between computer science and biology.
… Continue reading this postWe have had a recent release on the OpenLab, which includes a few new features and plug-ins we think you might be interested in! Here are the important details:
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PAPERCITE
We have installed the most recent version of the Papercite plug-in, which allows users to upload and display bibtex files on a page or post.
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This week we introduce our newest Community Team members! We’re excited to add several new student bloggers to our team, to pick up where last year’s bloggers left off. We have bloggers who will be writing about fashion, about food, and more!
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WELCOME BACK!
As the new term begins, we want to announce our workshop schedule, and two new OpenLab initiatives: Office Hours and Open Hours!
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Office Hours (please note, office hours are for faculty and staff only)
The Community Team will now be holding regular office hours to help those of you who feel you need extra help, have a quick question, can’t make a workshop, etc.
… Continue reading this postNumber of users broken down by students, faculty, staff:
Students: 10,953
Faculty: 561
Staff: 114
Alumni: 6
Number of courses, projects, clubs, portfolios:
Courses: 803
Projects: 1356
Clubs: 59
Portfolios: 2,676
Pageviews (for past quarter):
843,838
Average visit duration (for past quarter):
5:03
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Thought we’d take this final post of the term to revisit an old post/topic, Course Cloning. Cloning is a key feature to course management on the OpenLab, and we want to be sure as many of you know about it as possible.
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Happy Thanksgiving to all who will celebrate it this week, happy to break to anyone who is not. Enjoy the days off!
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REMINDER! STUDENT BLOGGER/PHOTOBLOGGER OPPORTUNITY!
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Applications have been coming in over the last two weeks for our student blogger and photoblogger opportunities, and we’re thrilled about it.
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