What You're Doing, Where We're Going
City Tech welcomes new students and faculty and staff members every year–so welcome to everyone new, and welcome back to everyone returning!
The OpenLab team is excited to work with you this semester as you do great things on the OpenLab–and to help you learn more about using the OpenLab and working in an open community.… Continue reading this post
When you use the OpenLab, you’re using WordPress, the most popular software for building websites, powering over 43% of the internet. That means that when you do things like develop your portfolio, add a post in a course, comment in a discussion, build a club or project site to bring together people in your community, you’re learning different aspects of WordPress.… Continue reading this post
The OpenLab team provides many different modes of support to help members learn how to do what they want to do on the OpenLab. Co-working sessions are a little different as they’re more about fostering a community of support.
These hour-long sessions are for quiet working time alongside others, with the option to move to a breakout room for conversation or questions.… Continue reading this post
Welcome to the Fall 2025 semester! City Tech welcomes new students and faculty and staff members every year–so welcome to everyone new, and welcome back to everyone returning!
The OpenLab team is excited to work with you this semester as you do great things on the OpenLab–and to help you learn more about using the OpenLab and working in an open community.… Continue reading this post
At the end of every summer (not to say this is the end of the summer!), there are new members of the City Tech community, all of whom are welcome to become members of City Tech’s OpenLab. There are also returning City Tech students, faculty, and staff who have yet to explore the OpenLab.… Continue reading this post
This summer, the OpenLab Team implemented new options that allow members to choose what they want to share, with whom, and how. Here are the highlights:Â
If you created an OpenLab account since the new semester approached, you may have noticed options that allow you to decide who can see individual fields on your member profile (e.g.… Continue reading this post
Themes are what determine your site’s appearance and presentation and what tools and features it has.
Changing your site’s theme is a great way to give your site a new look and feel. If you’ve created a new site recently, it uses a newer theme that will allow your site to have a contemporary style, layout, and range of tools.… Continue reading this post
You may have noticed in the August edition of This Month on the OpenLab that one of the new features from the summer updates is a template chooser. When you create a new Course, Project, Club, or Portfolio, the site created uses a template that is appropriate for each type of site.… Continue reading this post
The OpenLab has some useful resources to help you consider accessibility when you create or add content to a site. Learn more about accessibility on the OpenLab, and take advantage of the new Editoria11y plugin, a “spellcheck for accessibility” created by the web team at Princeton.… Continue reading this post
It might not look like spring outside, but welcome back for the Spring 2023 semester!
The OpenLab team is excited to work with you as you do great things on the OpenLab–and to help you learn more about using the OpenLab and working in an open community.… Continue reading this post
