This is not a welcome back post–there’s still a week until the semester begins on August 25th! This is instead a reminder of all the support the OpenLab Team offers students, faculty, and staff members for getting started, setting up your OpenLab site, and continuing your OpenLab work as you get ready for next week.… Continue reading this post
Category: OpenLab News
OpenLab Scheduled Maintenance Outage
The OpenLab will be down for essential maintenance from 9pm on Thursday July 21, 2022 until approximately 6pm on Friday July 22, 2022. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Please contact us with any questions or concerns. Thank you for your cooperation!… Continue reading this post
Updated! Job Opportunity: Digital Pedagogy Fellow for City Tech’s OpenLab
Application deadline extended to Wednesday, June 22!
The OpenLab is hiring! Please help us to spread the word.
The OpenLab team seeks to add a Digital Pedagogy Fellow to our enthusiastic team.… Continue reading this post
Job Opportunity: Digital Pedagogy Fellow for City Tech’s OpenLab
The OpenLab is hiring! Please help us to spread the word.
The OpenLab team seeks to add a Digital Pedagogy Fellow to our enthusiastic team.
City Tech’s OpenLab (https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/) is an innovative, open digital platform for students, faculty, and staff at New York City College of Technology, CUNY (http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/… Continue reading this post
This Month on the OpenLab: April 2022 Release
On April 19 we released version 1.7.61 of the OpenLab. It included one new and one retired plugin, a few minor plugin and theme updates, a small design update, and two bug fixes.
Plugins
The Zephyr Project Manager plugin adds some project management capabilities to OpenLab sites, most notably the ability to create, assign, and manage tasks. … Continue reading this post
This Month on the OpenLab: March 2022 Release
On March 15 we released version 1.7.60 of the OpenLab. It included two new plugins, a few plugin and theme updates, and two bug fixes.
Plugins
The new plugins are:
- Taxonomy Dropdown Widget, which allows you to add a widget with a dropdown listing categories or tags on your site.
This Month on the OpenLab: February 2022 Release
On February 15 we released version 1.7.59 of the OpenLab. It was a small release, which included some plugin and theme updates, and a bug fix.
Updates
In addition to minor theme and plugin updates, there was an update for the Wonder Gallery plugin, which fixed an issue with adding videos via URL from platforms like YouTube and Vimeo.… Continue reading this post
This Month on the OpenLab: January 2022 Release
On January 26, 2022 we released version 1.7.57 of the OpenLab. It included updates to all existing themes and plugins, including BuddyPress and WordPress, the two primary plugins that power the OpenLab.
New Features and Functionality
The latest version of WordPress includes a block-based editor for widgets.… Continue reading this post
Winter 2022 Support Schedule
Hello, OpenLab Community!
We are happy to announce our Winter 2022 Support Schedule, for everyone working the winter session and/or preparing for Spring 2022. We offer two types of synchronous support: workshops and Open Hours.
Winter Workshops:
Click here to view the full schedule and register to receive the Zoom link.… Continue reading this post
This Month on the OpenLab: November 2021 Release
On November 16, 2021 we released version 1.7.56 of the OpenLab. It included updates, a new plugin, and a few bug fixes.
Updates
On Course, Project, Club, and Portfolio sites, we removed the small icon next to the Profile link in the menu because it didn’t appear consistently across all themes.… Continue reading this post