Courses on the OpenLab can be created for any discipline to share materials, hold discussions, collect assignments, and more.
Projects can include student research projects, college committees, grant-funded initiatives, departmental working groups, and more.
Portfolios can be created by anyone with an OpenLab account. Portfolios are sites where students, faculty, and staff can showcase their work.
Courses, projects, and portfolios can be categorized on the OpenLab in a few different ways to help people narrow down their searches and find what they’re looking for. When a course, project, or portfolio falls in one of the categories listed below, “badges” denoting its type or “category” will appear on its profile page, along the left side of the avatar image.
If the course, project, or portfolio can be categorized in several ways, it will have several badges. The categories denoted by badges are:
- Open
- This badge appears when the profile and site are visible to anyone, whether or not they are members of the OpenLab.
- Available for courses, projects, and portfolios.
- Cloneable
- This badge appears when other members can “clone,” meaning they can create an exact copy of a course, or project.
- Available for courses and projects (portfolios cannot be cloned).
Using badges in a search
When you search in course, project, and portfolio directories, or using the site-wide search at the top of the OpenLab, you can narrow your search for different types using the checkboxes with badge names. For example, if you want to find all courses in a particular department that are open and cloneable, you would choose the appropriate department, and then check the boxes for Open and Cloneable.
This article is adapted from City Tech OpenLab Help, under a CC BY-NC-SA license.
