Never Mind the Edupunks; or, The Great Web 2.0 Swindle
“Never Mind the Edupunks; or, The Great Web 2.0 Swindle” July/August, 2010 – Brian Lamb andJim Groom In their article in Educause, the authors discuss the future of educational technology and note the accomplishments of the CUNY Academic Commons. …we offer a shout-out to the jaw-dropping CUNY Academic Commons … which seamlessly integrates the open-source […]
One Week | One Tool: The Reveal
I’m very proud to announce that Boone Gorges, Lead Developer of the CUNY Academic Commons, recently took part in a remarkable summer institute funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities. Titled “One Week | One Tool: A Digital Barn Raising,” the program gathered twelve participants from across the country in […]
6 Degrees of Open Access
I have to admit that prior to my attendance of the Digital University Conference on April 21, 2010, my understanding of “open access” was essentially non-existent. After attending the afternoon panel, A Digital Future?, my grasp of open access and academic publishing started coming into clearer focus. As someone who has not (yet) published an academic article, I had no […]
Site Upgrades
Those of you who visited the site tonight between 7pm and 9pm might have noticed that the Commons was down for routine maintenance. Well, “routine” is a bit of a misnomer, since we were engaged in far more than tinkering on the site; in fact, we were in the middle of a major platform upgrade. […]
WordPress a Better LMS
“WordPress a Better LMS” March 18, 2010 – David Parry CUNY Academic Commons was one of three examples listed in The Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Prof Hacker” column about how to use WordPress as a LMS tool. This is a really advanced WordPress set-up … an example of what could be done University wide if […]
When the Commons is Down . . .
This morning, we had a short outage as the server on which the Commons resides went down for a bit. We’re sorry about any inconvenience that this might have caused you, but we are extremely thankful to Commons member Steve Brier for bringing the issue to our attention and to our most excellent Systems Administrator, […]
New Feature: HTML Editor on Forums, Wires, Blogs
In response to member requests, we’re very happy to announce a new feature on the Commons: HTML editing buttons now appear throughout the site on text boxes. You’ll find these boxes on group discussion forums, member profile wires, and blog comment boxes. Please see the image below for an example. Due to security concerns, we’re […]
New Feature: Email Notifications of Forum Posts
We’re delighted to announce a powerful new feature of the Academic Commons that should transform its use: members of the site will now receive email notifications when new posts are made to group discussion forums. This seems like a relatively basic function, but it was something that was missing in the native version of our […]
A New Bug-Tracking System
When the CUNY Committee on Academic Technology first unveiled the Commons back in March of 2009, one particular page on our wiki saw more activity than almost any other part of the site: the Bug-Reports page. While we weren’t happy to hear that people had problems with the site, we held fast to the belief […]
Changes to Forum Posting Interface for Groups
This is a quick post to let members of the community know that the Development team will be working on the interface for groups over the next few days. Up until now, members of groups could post to their group forums directly through the group homepage. While this was convenient, it didn’t work very well, […]
