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Find Your WordPress Site
When logged into WordPress, you can easily see and open any of your sites hosted on Sophia. This is especially helpful if you work on multiple sites.
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Developmental Biology Illustrated Video Series
Traditionally, when students are assigned textbook readings, they rarely achieve the pre-learning objectives needed to successfully engage in solving complex problem sets during class. In the Developmental Biology Illustrated Video series, Dr. Michael Barresi and his colleague, Dr. Scott Gilbert of Swarthmore College, generate topic-focused videos that are designed to support text readings and lecture … Continued
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WordPress Plugins
In this workshop we will go beyond the basic content management functions of WordPress and cover a number of ways you can use plugins to add functionality to your site. We’ll create interactive content with H5P, and develop ways to input structured data with Advanced Custom Fields. You will have a chance to work on … Continued
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Create an Image Gallery in WordPress
WordPress includes a built-in gallery feature that you can use to display a series of images on either a post or page. Galleries display images in a grid layout, meaning you can show more content using less space.
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WordPress 101: WordPress Basics
At Smith, instructors across campus are using WordPress in their courses to teach foreign languages, investigate historical texts, showcase student work, and more. In this workshop, we’ll explore some of the ways instructors and students at Smith have used WordPress. You’ll also learn about the basic features of WordPress and get familiar with content creation. … Continued
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Print an Exam from the Direct-to-Queue Application
Your instructor will have given you a link that you can use to print out your exam. This document explains the process. Exams using this system can only be printed at the printers in the basement computer lab at Seelye Hall B8.
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Digital Sandbox
Teaching Arts Lunches: Join Educational Technology Services for an interactive session showcasing collaborative projects from the 2016-17 academic year. Participants will have an opportunity to play with current and emerging technologies, and imagine new ways to enhance the teaching and learning experience.
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Embed a Poll Everywhere Question into a WordPress Post or Page
Poll Everywhere questions can be embedded into other websites using iframes, meaning you can show the results of a question on a website or class blog. These instructions will show you how to create a new question in Poll Everywhere, and where to find the embed code. If you would like to later embed the … Continued
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Create an IFrame Object in WordPress with the H5P Plugin
Certain iframe objects can be embedded in WordPress using the H5P plugin. These instructions will show you how to create an iframe object in H5P using an iframe embed code, using an example of a Poll Everywhere question.
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Insert an H5P Object in a WordPress Post or Page
After creating an H5P object, you can easily embed the object into any WordPress post or page. These instructions will show you how to insert an H5P object, for example, an iframe object, into a WordPress post.