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9,000 Members!
It might have been a minute since we last spoke, but the OpenLab has not stopped growing: in the last few weeks we’ve officially passed 9,000 members! There are now over 600 courses on the platform, and nearly 1,200 projects. … Continue reading this post
The OpenLab recently graduated to version 1.4! Here’s an update on some of our new features. Let us know what you think, either in the comments or by contacting us directly.
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Privacy Notification Changes
You’ll notice that we’ve made some changes to how privacy works. … Continue reading this post
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Our system makes it incredibly easy to “clone” a course, bringing all documents, posts and pages created by the site administrator, and most settings to a new and uniquely named site and profile. … Continue reading this post
As part of our ongoing effort to move toward more regular updates, the OpenLab recently updated to version 1.3.2. Here’s an update on some of our new features! Let us know what you think, either in the comments or by contacting us directly.… Continue reading this post
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WordPress is constantly updating. Most of the time the changes are small enough to not warrant mention, or are “back end” updates that our users won’t notice. But the most recent updates, 3.5 and 3.6, bring some changes and new features we thought we’d point out. … Continue reading this post
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Hello everyone, and welcome to this week’s installment of This Week in the OpenLab! Because of the holidays, a number of things this week: Two featured blogs, and two new tutorials!
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FEATURED BLOG: THE BUZZ!… Continue reading this post
Just a quick note to say there’s been a change to the time of one of our student workshops this fall. The details can be found below (and on our Workshop Schedule page):
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Spam is part of any open system, and while we do all sorts of things to prevent automated spam, there’s very little anyone can do about those friendly human spammers willing to actually type out comments and post them. Do remember that by default comments are all saved to your dashboard and won’t appear until you approve them, and try to take joy in there inevitable compliments. … Continue reading this post
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Congratulations to all our graduates! It seems like just yesterday you started, and now you’re all grown up. Please keep in touch, and best of luck!
Featured Tutorial: Finding Print Quality Images
“Have you ever grabbed an image off the internet, then printed it, only to find it looks awful on paper or is the size of a postage stamp?… Continue reading this post
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