Commons Ten Year Retrospective
The Commons Timeline documents the site's evolution over the past ten years and shows how new functionality is driven by member needs.
Block Editing Libraries Now Available
Are you using WordPress's Block Editor? The Commons just added two new block libraries, each with layouts and snippets designed to create content in sections or "blocks" that can be efficiently and aesthetically combined.
The Commons Turns 10!
As the Commons celebrates its 10th Anniversary, Matt Gold and Luke Waltzer reflect on its evolution and what's in store for the next ten years in an interview on The Thought Project podcast.
Welcome to Commons 1.16 !
This fall's release features improvements to our courses directory, group calendar and file folder enhancements, and a new splash page to request access to user-only sites.
Digital Art & Pedagogy: The Creation of Net-Art
InCommons interviews Ryan Seslow, the founder of Net-Art - the cross-college, cross-campus open course that synthesizes the disciplines of communication technology, graphic design, and digital storytelling.
Archives & Special Collections at BCC
Now on the Commons, the BCC Archives and Special Collections site serves as a portal to the library's extensive collection of photographs, documents, oral histories, ephemera, and digital surrogates.
Digital Storytelling & Linguistics with Inés Vañó García!
InCommon interviews Inés Vañó García to spotlight her course on the Commons where students explore linguistic identities through images and oral histories.
A Rich But Understudied Literary Past
The Literary Bronx Project is an ongoing public humanities research project that aims to redress the deficit of critical attention paid to Bronx literary culture.
News Literacy Matters
Besides being the teaching platform for a Hunter journalism course, the News Literacy Matters site on the Commons is an excellent guide for those pursuing credible information in the digital age.
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.
Getting Started
The CUNY Academic Commons is an academic social network created by and for CUNY. Learn more.
Featured Site
News and updates from the CUNY Academic Commons team, highlighting new features, release notes, and documentation
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