Happy holidays, Commons community! After we closed out our major redesign project with the overhaul of Groups last spring, we turned our attention in the fall of 2024 to the registration process. Now that we’ve completed our hosting migration, we’re excited to release these changes to all of you. Though longtime users may not have […]
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Hosting Migration Complete!
We are very pleased to announce that the Commons has fully migrated to Reclaim Hosting. If you’re reading this, you’re enjoying the Commons in its new home!
Commons 2.4: Groups, Our Redesign Finale
Just over two years ago, with our 2.0 release of an overhauled homepage, we began to steadily revamp the look of the Commons. As we launch a new Groups experience today, every major area of the site now utilizes the modern and streamlined design we introduced in spring 2022. The full suite of Groups features, […]
Commons 2.3: The CV, Your New Professional Homepage
It’s a new year, and we’re thrilled to kick it off by unveiling a big new feature. Today, we say goodbye to the traditional Commons Profile and hello to the Commons CV! The CV (curriculum vitae) is a versatile, visually compelling public landing page available to every Commons member. Using intuitive and customizable editing tools, […]
Commons 2.2: Revamped Settings and Inbox
Welcome to fall, Commons community, and an eventful release season for our team! Since our January 2023 release of new About and Activity pages with a streamlined top navigation, the Commons team has been hard at work on a complex set of upgrades that required a longer-than-usual development cycle this past spring and summer. Now, […]
Commons 2.1: Activity and Events at a Glance
We’re excited to begin a new year and a new semester with a cleaner main menu and several important new ways to jump into everything happening on the Commons. Last spring, we brought the key elements of our homepage redesign to our top-level People, Groups, Sites, and Courses directories. We’re now launching overhauled Events, Activity […]
Commons 2.0: A New Era for the CUNY Academic Commons
As spring exams give way to summer, we’re pleased to announce the release of Commons 2.0! Since January, Commons members and visitors have been enjoying our homepage redesign – a long overdue rethinking of the look, feel, and functionality of the Commons homepage. As we move into the Commons 2.0, we have extended these new […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.