The CUNY Academic Commons, Social Justice, and the Fall 2020 Semester
Dear CUNY Academic Commons Community, The CUNY Academic Commons team welcomes you back to the Fall 2020 semester. We do so with excitement about our work at CUNY, and with concern about the multiple crises we face, from the COVID-19 pandemic to the continuing effects of systematic racism in our country and our communities. As […]
Version 1.17 Released: Group Library and Site Cloning Features
Our latest release revamps how Group members can share group resources with each other and introduces a powerful cloning tool for adapting existing Sites to new uses while preserving the original. Both are well-timed to enable more efficient group collaboration and Site expansion (building off of last year’s new creation portal) as COVID-19 necessitates new […]
Changes to Group Email Notifications
Commons 1.16.8, released on March 24, introduces a small but important change to group email notifications that makes it easier to see their subjects in your inbox, especially if you use a mobile device. Prior to this change, the group’s name would appear before the subject, making it hard to see what the notification was […]
The CUNY Academic Commons – COVID-19 Response and Resources
The CUNY Academic Commons remains open to serve CUNY faculty, students, and staff as our community responds to the COVID-19 pandemic. We encourage new and existing users to explore how the Commons can help fulfill its central mission of connecting members of CUNY to each other. As a reminder, the Commons is a faculty-led, open-source […]
Commons Ten Year Growth
The Commons continues to see strong growth in members, sites, and groups. The three charts above attest to the vibrant community it continues to foster. This entry is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
From The Beginning: A Commons Retrospective
The Commons Timeline documents the site’s ten year evolution and shows how new functionality is driven by member needs. This entry is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
Thought Project Interviews Matt Gold and Luke Waltzer
Gold and Waltzer return to The Thought Project podcast to celebrate and discuss the 10th anniversary of Commons, which achieved their goal to establish a generative platform that enhances the intellectual life of CUNY. Tune in to hear about their plans for the next 10 years. –Thought Project News – Episode 75 This entry is […]
Version 1.16 Released: Revamped Courses Directory
Teaching continues to drive substantial growth on the Commons, so we’re excited today to launch new features for searching and discovering the rapidly-increasing number of courses in our community. Our revamped Courses Directory now boasts a hero slideshow of rotating course highlights, a new filter bar for finding Courses based on a variety of configurable […]
CUNY Academic Commons Annual Report 2018 – 2019
Driven by intense interest across the CUNY system in using the Commons as a teaching platform, our 2018-2019 Annual Report shows how our site continues to provide a generative platform to showcase the intellectual life of the entire university. This entry is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
Version 1.15 Released: Streamlined Creation for Groups and Sites
As the CUNY Academic Commons grows faster than ever, and is used by an increasing number of community members for a diverse range of projects, our latest release makes it easier to set up new spaces for collaboration and sharing. Today we are introducing a Creation Portal that will be a one-stop launch point for […]
