What You're Doing, Where We're Going
Though many of us may more readily think ‘coursework’ or ‘group project coordination’ when we think of the OpenLab, the platform also offers an important opportunity for displaying individual work in a unique and professional way. City Tech student, Kim Mohammed offers an excellent example of how this can be accomplished.… Continue reading this post
OpenLab affords many opportunities for student-faculty collaboration and professional development for students. For a great example of this, look no further than SADHA. SADHA, short for Student American Dental Hygiene Association, is a site that facilitates the membership of first and second year Dental Hygiene students in an important professional organization – the American Dental Hygiene Association.… Continue reading this post
Pageviews (for past quarter):
837,089
Average session duration (for past quarter):
4:44
Number of users broken down by students, faculty, staff:
Students: 17,956
Faculty: 761
Staff: 154
Number of courses, projects, clubs, portfolios:
Courses: 1,468
Projects: 2,211
Clubs: 95
Portfolios: 4,75
Pageviews (for past quarter):
644,132
Average session duration(for past quarter):
4:22
Number of users broken down by students, faculty, staff (as of July 13 2016):
Students: 16,088
Faculty: 716
Staff: 141
Other: 64
Number of courses, projects, clubs, portfolios (as of July 13 2016):
Courses: 1,301
Projects: 1,946
Clubs: 86
Portfolios: 4,400
Pageviews (for past quarter):
766,732
Average visit duration (for past quarter):
4:53
Number of users broken down by students, faculty, staff:
Students: 14,233
Faculty: 646
Staff: 123
Number of courses, projects, clubs, portfolios:
Courses: 1,133
Projects: 1,583
Clubs: 75
Portfolios: 3,580
“In the Spotlight,” housed on the Open Road, is a blog series that aims to showcase all the amazing work our students, faculty and staff are doing by featuring a different course, project, club or ePortfolio each week. Specifically, we highlight the unique ways users are designing their sites to meet their teaching, learning, professional, and/or extracurricular needs.… Continue reading this post
We released version 1.7.4 of the OpenLab on October 18. In this release, we added a password strength notification on the sign up page. In addition, we retired KB Gradebook, a plugin that is no longer being updated. We’re testing out a few options for a potential replacement, so stay tuned.… Continue reading this post
This week we, the OpenLab team, are proud to announce OpenLab is now home to over 19,000 members! Thank you for joining us!
Given our growing community, we’d like to take a minute to remind you of all of the services available to you:
The Buzz is hiring! We are an Openlab student project dedicated to all things City Tech, where students blog about themselves and/or topics of their choice. We seek enthusiastic student bloggers to join The Buzz and create conversation, community, and engagement on the OpenLab and strengthen the intellectual and social life of the college community.… Continue reading this post
We released version 1.7.3 of the OpenLab on September 20. It was a small release, coming on the heels of some significant changes over the summer, which you can read more about here. It included some improvements to the way error messages are displayed during the sign up process for OpenLab accounts, made a few fixes to the way our WP Grade Comments plugin displayed in the newly-added theme Hemingway, and also included a few behind the scenes updates that won’t be noticeable to users.… Continue reading this post
The OpenLab is an open-source, digital platform designed to support teaching and learning at City Tech (New York City College of Technology), and to promote student and faculty engagement in the intellectual and social life of the college community.
