Open labs occur once a month, usually the second Monday of the month on the 5th floor of the RBELC (Ronald Blocker Education Learning Center). An open lab is:
- someplace you can come to just quietly work on your web site away from distractions;
- a place where you can to ask questions about specific things you are trying to do on your site or on a page;
- a place to learn how to use the tools effectively to display your content;
- a common place to get help for both your public-facing school web site and your internal collaboration site.
An open lab is not:
- a training class;
- an introduction to either portal, public-facing or collaboration;
- a place to get someone else to built out your site or pages for you.
Beginners should start by at least watching the videos found at https://intranet.ocps.net/departments/chief_communications_office/web_and_technology_services/help_tips_training/school_sites/School%20Training%20Videos/ for the public facing portal sites or videos found at: https://www.youtube.com/user/ocpswebservices for collaboration sites.
To attend an Open Lab through May 14th 2018:
- Go to http://signmeup.ocps.net
- Select Technology
- Choose whether you want to attend a morning or afternoon session for SchoolMessenger (Internet, intranet, School Internet) or SharePoint (Collaboration).
For Open Labs beginning in June 2018:
- Go to https://canvas.ocps.net
- Click on Teacher & Staff Login
- Select auto sign-in if you are not logged in
- Click the PD Catalog in left navigation
- Search for SchoolMessenger using the Search Tool
- Select the session you want to attend (note there are two SchoolMessenger sessions, morning and afternoon but you only need to select the session you want to attend.)