Commons Version 1.0 Has Arrived!
The CUNY Academic Commons has been upgraded to our first named version, CUNY Academic Commons, Version 1.0!
Here are some highlights:
The Commons Wiki has been bumped up to MediaWiki version 1.15.4 – a substantial jump from 1.13.4. The upgrade lets us install new extensions (extensions in MediaWiki are like plugins in WordPress -- the...
Welcome to The CUNY Academic Commons, Version 1.1!
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We're happy to announce that version 1.1 of the CUNY Academic Commons is now live!
All upgrades to the site are important, but this one brought an especially large number of new features and revisions. The Community Team will be bloggin...
Welcome to Commons 1.2
After months of hard work the CUNY Academic Commons team is happy to release the CUNY Academic Commons Version 1.2.0. This latest upgrade has some of our most ambitious new features to date with many developed in response to the community's insight and suggestions. This post will introduce you to Commons 1.2.0, walk you through some of the chang...
The CUNY Academic Commons Announces The Commons in a Box Project
The CUNY Academic Commons is proud to announce the establishment of The Commons in a Box, a new open-source project that will help other organizations quickly and easily install and customize their own Commons platforms. With generous support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the CUNY Academic Commons team will launch the free software projec...
Commons Version 1.3 Has Arrived!
We’re happy to announce that version 1.3 of the CUNY Academic Commons is now live!
All upgrades to the site are important, but this one brought a considerable number of new features and revisions (our highest to-date). Here are some highlights:
New Members Directory Filters Our biggest, and probably most noticable difference, is the ...
Welcome to the CUNY Academic Commons, Version 1.4
We're delighted to announce the latest release of the CUNY Academic Commons, version 1.4. The development team has been working feverishly over the past few months, addressing important issues such as profile privacy and group communication in response to feedback and insight from our community. Though the 1.4 milestone includes many new feature...
Commons 1.4 -- Reply By Email!
The marquee feature of Commons 1.4 is the awesome BuddyPress functionality developed by the Commons Dev Team that lets members respond to email notifications directly from their inboxes.
If you wanted to respond to a discussion forum post before Commons 1.4, you’d need to click on the hyperlink in an email notification, log into the Commo...
CUNY Academic Commons Launches Commons In A Box (Press Release)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
New York, NY -- November 19, 2012 2:00 PM EST
Contact Information: Matthew K. Gold, Ph.D. Director, CUNY Academic Commons [email protected]
CUNY ACADEMIC COMMONS LAUNCHES COMMONS IN A BOX & COMMONSINABOX.ORG
The CUNY Academic Commons, an initiative of the City University of New York, is proud to re...
Welcome to Commons 1.5!
We are pleased to announce CUNY Academic Commons, version 1.5! While this is our first major release in more than a year, to say that the Commons 1.5 milestone has been over four years in the making is certainly not an understatement*.
Though the 1.5 release includes over twenty new features, below are some highlights. Profiles The marquee ...
Welcome to Commons 1.6!
The Commons Development team has just released Commons 1.6! This release features a number of great improvements to the site, including something everyone will love - HTML email notifications. We have also souped up the Commons member profile pages with widget improvements (including a new Twitter Widget), and fixed a design issue that makes...
Welcome to “My Commons” – Your Personal Homepage!
Commons 1.7, our first major release of the Commons since April, includes a number of new improvements and some important, behind the scenes upgrades, as well as the release’s central feature, “My Commons.” My Commons "My Commons" is a new personal homepage that highlights the network of friends, groups, and the sites you develop...
Welcome to Commons 1.7
Commons 1.7 is out! This is a major feature release of the Commons and includes a number of new improvements and some important, behind the scenes upgrades, as well as the release's marquee feature, "My Commons."
My Commons - Your New Personal Homepage
When you are on the Commons "Home" tab and log on, you will be automatically sen...
Introducing Commons 1.8!
The Commons Development team has just released Commons 1.8! With a special focus on helping groups communicate, Commons 1.8 delivers some great improvements, including its marquee feature, the Events Calendar. We hope you enjoy all the new functionality, described in more detail below. Events Calendar One of the most requested features by me...
Welcome to Social Paper (beta)!
We are excited to announce the launch of Social Paper (beta), a networked writing environment that enables students to compose and share all forms of their written work across across courses, disciplines, institutions and academic terms. Likewise, students can browse and comment on the papers of their peers.
Unlike many learning managemen...
Announcing Version 1.10
We are pleased to announce CUNY Academic Commons Version 1.10. The new release contains a variety of improvements to some of our most popular features plus some new items. Here’s a brief summary…
Forums
The Forum feature within Groups now supports rich text, allows forum attachments to be browsed in files, and provides autocomplete whe...
Group Forum Improvements
The backbone of the CUNY Academic commons is our Groups feature. Whether you use it as a graduate class platform, a research group, or a place to store and discuss department and committee concerns, you know how useful it can be. (And if you're at the starting point, please read our How to Create, Join and Maintain Groups page to begin.)...
Commons Version 1.11
We are pleased to announce the new release of CUNY Academic Commons featuring our new Help Center and some slick new options for participating in discussions with your Group. Help Center The Help Center offers a single, simple-to-navigate page for finding solutions to technical challenges on the Commons. In addition to answers to FAQ's, you ...
Welcome to Commons 1.13 !
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The marquee feature of this spring's release is our new invitation system. We have centralized the process of inviting colleagues or students to the Commons and to specific groups and sites. Invitations can be initiate...
Announcing Commons In A Box OpenLab
The Commons In A Box team is delighted to announce the public release of Commons In A Box OpenLab, a free open-source software platform for teaching, learning, and collaboration.
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Over the past two years, we have partnered w...
Announcing Version 1.14: Improving the Commons for OER Teaching and Research
Welcome to Release 1.14 Our new 1.14 release offers an array of enhancements to the Commons that respond to recent usage patterns and expanding interest in the Commons as an open solution for CUNY’s teaching, research, and scholarship.
Our 1.13 release made it easier to add users to sites and groups on the Commons by launching a new invita...
Version 1.15 Released: Streamlined Creation for Groups and Sites
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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 s...
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 o...
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...
Commons 1.18: Group Cloning, Library Management, and Much More
Today the CUNY Academic Commons team is excited to release a new version of the platform headlined by a new group cloning feature. Building on our summer launch of site cloning, admins can now duplicate any of their spaces on the Commons. Whether you’re a faculty member repeating a course and hoping to avoid having to upload all of your course...
New Release: Conference Template and OER Showcase
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 work and plannin...
New Year, New Commons!
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 availa...
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 an...
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, we’re th...
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, y...
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, from discussion forums to shared...
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