Please note you are creating a POST (*not a ‘page’)

MediaHopper – How to create an OER Post in WordPress (link)

This is where you will add all of the information that you need for your toolkit to run…

You will add the name of your basho by selecting the correct category on the right panel >>>

You must also upload a Featured Image. This must be openly licenced.

You can add tags to make it easier to find your Open Toolkit – e.g. which genre or subject matter it engages with…

Finally, you must openly licence your Open Toolkit.

You can do that here: https://chooser-beta.creativecommons.org

You should now publish the OER using the menu to the right of this window >>>

Click on ‘View Post’ to see what it looks like.

Use of CC licenced images and AltText in your WordPress:

When working with images to create an OER in WordPress, you need to do the following:

1. Ensure that any image you use in your WordPress is CC, NOT copyrighted.

See: https://www.theverge.com/23308003/image-search-free-legal-use-how-to-wikimedia-creative-commons

Note that only open licenced images can be used in your OER.

Any other image is not open and will invalidate the your website as an OER.

1. You can find CC images by using:
   1. https://search.creativecommons.org
   2. By searching with ‘cc’ images only in image search in your browser

2. Ensure that all images in your WordPress are captioned, cited in full and attributed to their CC licence

   1. How to cite an image:
      1. https://uoe.sharepoint.com/sites/MACATFoundations/SitePages/Citation.aspx?csf=1&web=1&e=7dMbAc#citing-and-avoiding-plagiarism
      2. If you add the image to Slide Cabinet and fill in all of the cells accurately, it will create a correct image citation: https://uoe.sharepoint.com/sites/CATDatasets/
      3. Add the citation to the box called ‘Caption’ in WordPress. This box appears if you right-click on an image and then select the pencil icon.

2. Ensure that all images in your WordPress are cited in full and attributed to their CC licence

2 iii. Add the citation to the box called ‘Caption’ in WordPress. This box appears if you right-click on an image and then select the pencil icon.

3. Check that all images in your WordPress have an AltText (Alternative Text);

   1. Follow the UK Government’s advice on AltText https://design102.blog.gov.uk/2022/01/14/whats-the-alternative-how-to-write-good-alt-text/
   2. Add AltText to the box called ‘Alternative Text’ in WordPress. This box appears if you right-click on an image and then select the pencil icon.

3. Ensure that all images in your WordPress have an AltText (Alternative Text)

(You must provide a full attribution of the image here, a URL and full Creative Commons licence details.)