Welcome To Commons 1.15!
The marquee feature of this spring's release is our new Creation Portal - a one-stop launch point to build Groups, Sites, and Connected Groups + Sites.
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.
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
Recent Posts
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Yailin Hernandez wrote a new post, Final Self Reflection, on the site Yailin Hernandez's Final Portfolio 3 hours, 52 minutes ago
Whew. This semester went by surprisingly fast.
I love writing and that was my main motivation for joining this course. I thought it would be more creative writing, but boy was I wrong. The workload was […]
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Yailin Hernandez wrote a new post, Researched Critical Analysis Reflection, on the site Yailin Hernandez's Final Portfolio 4 hours, 6 minutes ago
During the process, I actually switched to two other topics; abortion and climate change. Sticking with vaccines was the best considering the fact that I wrote an entire paper about it before. Writing the paper […]
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Yailin Hernandez wrote a new post, Researched Critical Analysis Final, on the site Yailin Hernandez's Final Portfolio 4 hours, 7 minutes ago
In 1798, Edward Jenner made an interesting observation. At a time where smallpox was rampant, he noticed that milkmaids who had gotten the disease before did not get it again. So, he did the unthinkable. He […]
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Yailin Hernandez wrote a new post, Researched Critical Analysis Draft, on the site Yailin Hernandez's Final Portfolio 4 hours, 8 minutes ago
Background InformationHistory of anti-vaxxersWhen first introduced, people thought vaccines were unnatural and wrong. Edward Jenner, smallpox vaccineHow vaccines workWeakened pathogens are used for the body to […]
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Yailin Hernandez wrote a new post, Exploratory Analysis Reflection, on the site Yailin Hernandez's Final Portfolio 4 hours, 9 minutes ago
With the topic of vaccines, I could have gone in depth about so many other things, but I chose to stick to the most important information. Researching was hard, but not as hard as it could have been. Using […]
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Yailin Hernandez wrote a new post, Exploratory Analysis, on the site Yailin Hernandez's Final Portfolio 4 hours, 10 minutes ago
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Every kid dreams of going to Disneyland one day. After all, it is the place […]
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Yailin Hernandez wrote a new post, Literacy Narrative Reflection, on the site Yailin Hernandez's Final Portfolio 4 hours, 17 minutes ago
I think this assignment was fair for our first, since we’ve just started this course and it doesn’t require any extensive research or interpretation on outside information. I really had to dig deep into my you […]
