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, […]
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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 Commons Timeline documents the site’s ten year evolution and shows how new functionality is driven by member needs.
Today it was announced that Raymond Hoh, a member of the CUNY Academic Commons and Commons In A Box dev teams, was promoted to the BuddyPress core team. This means that he joins a small group of people primarily responsible for maintaning and building BuddyPress, the social networking plugin for WordPress that powers the Commons […]
The Commons In A Box project aims to provide universities and similarly minded organizations with a powerful, professional, free, and easy-to-use platform for community engagement. A central part of any such platform is its interface. CBox is built on BuddyPress and will work with any BP-compatible WordPress theme. Thus, organizations with the right kind of […]
