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, […]
A Midsummer Night’s Commons Update
I hope you’ll forgive the tortured title of this post, but with Twelfth Night earning rave reviews in Central Park, I’ve got Shakespeare on the brain. Not that I’ve seen the current production — the lines are far too long for me to get in, as Joe Ugoretz can attest. (For those who fit the […]
CUNY Academic Commons: Off and Running
The Academic Commons is still in its gestation phase — we haven’t announced it publicly, and we’ve only invited the 40-odd members of the CUNY Committee on Academic Technology to join (in fact, we’ve asked several interested parties to wait before participating) — but we’re already seeing the power of the website to make connections […]
Problems with Group and Individual Avatars on BuddyPress Solved
On the Bug Reports page, Manfred noted that he was having problems uploading an avatar for his personal profile or for his group. I tried to upload an image myself and ran into some very strange problems: first, the image wouldn’t crop at all, and then it started bouncing around the page like the cards […]
