The Open/Alternative Textbook Program
Supporting over 70 faculty across 15 of BMCC’s 17 departments, this OER site on the Commons aims to replace commercial textbooks with open educational resources and other no-cost materials such as library resources and websites.
Does Your Site Meet Accessibility Standards?
Learn how to use the Wave Accessibility tool to ensure your Commons site meets Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) standards.
Net Art – An Ongoing Open Source Course
Open to all, this remote online digital studio art course exposes and expands the vocabulary of new media art to the student’s personal visual statements.
The Divine Comedy In English – Hunter – Spring 2019
Dante's Divine Comedy "as a poetic and encyclopedic text that borrows and adapts from ancient texts and from contemporary culture and as a text ... has influenced our imagination over the centuries." Read more about this course taught on the Commons
Embedding Content From External Sites
Content from Sutori, Padlet, and VoiceThread can now be embedded in site pages or posts. Embedding resources, rather than linking to them, adds richness to sites and extends functionality. Here's our list of custom embed file and content types.
American Renaissance – Spring 2019 – Grad Center
Known as the American Renaissance, the decades leading up to the Civil War are generally regarded not only as the peak moment in American literary expression but also as a watershed of cultural themes... Read more about this course taught on the Commons.
Gutenberg – The New Block Editor For WordPress
Gutenberg introduces a powerful, new editing experience to WordPress. Learn about the new editor and how the Commons update strategy will affect your sites.
Are You Teaching On The Commons?
Our new Courses tab lists classes that are using the Commons for teaching. We will soon to populate this list automatically, but in the meantime, if you don't see your course in our directory, please fill out this form with your course details.
Welcome to Commons 1.14
Our fall release features a new template system that simplifies site creation, plugin packages that ease site extension around common uses, and new widgets for campus branding, licensing content, and integrating with CUNY’s library search tool.
Announcing Commons In A Box OpenLab!
The Commons In A Box team is delighted to announce the public release of CBOX OpenLab, a free open-source software platform for teaching, learning, and collaboration.
Getting Started
The CUNY Academic Commons is an academic social network created by and for CUNY. Learn more.
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News and updates from the CUNY Academic Commons team, highlighting new features, release notes, and documentation
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