Plugin Audit & Purge Hi, you are likely reading this because you have one or more sites on either the trubox.ca or opened.ca WordPress multi-sites and we are removing a plugin or theme that your site(s) uses. The following will give you some idea of why we are removing some of the plugins and themes, how this…
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Hi all, please request your Webwork accounts/courses using the form below. It accommodates multiple courses per instructor, multiple instructors per course (for co-teaching or multi-section courses using a common Webwork course.), and adding notes to copy problem sets from an existing course. Please note the following account information which increases flexibility for Faculty, Webwork accounts…
Hi all, Webwork is a homework system developed to support courses in Mathematics, Statistics and Physics. To make things more seamless you are able to add External Tool links (also called an LTI) in your Moodle course to the Webwork course(s) that you wish to make available to your students. Here’s how to do that….
H5P is a wonderful thing. The educational world has been ‘all a buzz’ about H5P since its release. What H5P does is put the authoring of various interactive content pieces in the reach of more casual users. Such interactive content previously involved additional, multiple and generally complex software. H5P is quite simple to use (particular…
Draft: note, Kaltura is a complex space and until we have worked the kinks out of the process this post will be considered draft. What is a Group? A group (e.g. Library) is a single manageable entity that represents a collection of users. Technically, a group is a unique type of user that can have…
Hi all, this upgrade to WordPress 5.4 brings a few handy improvements: A four-screen “onboarding” style guide to using the block editor that appears the first time you open the block editor. It can be viewed again via the vertical three dots in the upper right of the window under the item “Welcome Guide”. (If…
Every now and then a WordPress plugin comes along that I instantly know will be a useful game-changer for many TruBox and OpenETC users. I recently installed this plugin on both servers and will take a few paragraphs to show you what it does. The Academic Blogger’s Toolkit (ABT) helps you manage citations and bibliographies…
The Intercultural Intersections Website is what we consider a “bespoke” project for the Learning Technology and Innovations group. It required plenty of lead time and a great deal of initial custom WordPress development and ongoing iteration. Our internal client for this site was Kyra Garson, Interculturalization Coordinator in TRU’s Centre for Excellence in Learning and…