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Upcoming Launch!
With the Brooklyn spring here a bit early, consider this your first invitation to the official CityTech OpenLab launch, scheduled for mid-April. More details to follow, but pencil it in for the 19th of April. We’ll see you there!
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This Week’s Tutorial
Many of our professors use the ‘comments’ function on course sites to have students respond either to one another’s work or to a prompt, as in the example from Professor Rosen’s above.
And comments are not just useful for professors–encouraging comments from users is one of the main ways for a site to interact with the public, particularly the larger public outside CityTech. But until recently, users couldn’t edit their comments if, say, they rethought what they had said, had something additional to add, or even just misspelled something.
To deal with that, we’ve installed a new plug-in called “Ajax Edit Comments.” This plug-in allows for comments to be edited by users for a set length of time (the administrator of the site can set that time-length), and it also has a spell check feature.
Unlike most plug-ins, which usually have a specific audience, we really recommend that all OpenLab users activate this one. There’s a tutorial on it here, and as always, contact us with any quesitons!
