Screencast: Menus


Welcome to OpenLab screencasts! In this category, you’ll find each of our current screencasts focused on a different common help topic.

The video embedded below discusses different uses for modifying and using menus on your OpenLab site.

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Screencast: Site Appearance

Welcome to OpenLab screencasts! In this category, you’ll find each of our current screencasts focused on a different common help topic.

The video embedded below discusses using WordPress tools to customize your site’s appearance on the OpenLab.

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Screencast: Pages & Posts

Welcome to OpenLab screencasts! In this category, you’ll find each of our current screencasts focused on a different common help topic.

The video embedded below discusses using site building blocks pages and posts OpenLab site.

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Screencast: Front End


Welcome to OpenLab screencasts! In this category, you’ll find each of our current screencasts focused on a different common help topic.

The video embedded below discusses using WordPress tools to develop the front end of your OpenLab site.

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New Screencast: Editing Menus on Your Site

In our latest screencast, Digital Pedagogy Fellow Olivia will show you how to edit your site’s menu to add (or delete, or re-order) pages, posts, and categories.

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New Screencast: Customizing Your Site’s Appearance

In this screencast, the latest in our Site Building Blocks series, digital pedagogy fellow Olivia will show you how to edit your site’s appearance using the “Appearance –> Customize” feature on the site’s Dashboard.

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New OpenLab Screencast: Pages and Posts

We are pleased to offer a new set of support materials for OpenLab users: screencasts! With video, audio, and captions, these screencasts provide step-by-step instructions for how to use different OpenLab features in a multimodal format.

Today, we’re introducing a new video in our series on the basic building blocks of OpenLab sites.… Continue reading this post

Introducing OpenLab Help Screencasts

We are pleased to offer a new set of support materials for OpenLab users: screencasts! With video, audio, and captions, these screencasts provide step-by-step instructions for how to use different OpenLab features in a multimodal format.

Our screencasts are an ongoing project, so more will be released in the coming weeks!… Continue reading this post

In the Spotlight: Energy and Environmental Simulation Laboratory

logo for Energy and Environmental Simulation Laboratory

This week we’re spotlighting City Tech’s Energy and Environmental Simulation Laboratory (EESL). EESL is a research group organized by Professor Masato R. Nakamura in the Mechanical Engineering Department at City Tech. Though a research group, this group is open to anyone interested in conducting research on energy, environmental engineering and computing for sustainability.Continue reading this post