Credit: Jason Hickey on Flickr (cc) Happy Spring! We’re excited to roll out our 2.7 release today, with a variety of substantial upgrades that have been in the works for almost a year. The library enhancements are available in all groups, the redesigned admin bar appears across the Commons when logged in, and any user […]
We hope you’ve been having a terrific fall semester! Here at the Commons, we’re pleased to announce that our 2.6 release is live today, anchored by revamped email designs and re-engineered site creation (more on those below).
Welcome to the fall semester! The Commons team enjoyed the summer, but we’ve also been working hard to get ready for another busy school year. Here are just a few highlights!
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 […]
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 […]
Welcome to the 1.19 Release As the CUNY Academic Commons enters its 13th year, we’re thrilled to unveil a cornerstone for the years to come – a new homepage with a visual and functional overhaul that will eventually transform the entire platform. A quick visit to commons.cuny.gc.edu should give you an idea of what’s now […]
The CUNY Academic Commons team is pleased to announce a series of updates focused on the use of the platform for open educational resources (OER) and academic conferences. This release is not the official software version milestone we usually hit each semester, as we’re continuing to adjust to the impact of the pandemic on our […]
