Dear CUNY Manifold Users,

I hope your Fall semester has started smoothly.

We will be teaching two Manifold workshops next week and we hope you will be able to join us, all are welcome!

Please see workshop details below.

 

Kind regards,

Robin

—

Robin Miller, MSLIS

Open Educational Technologist | GC Digital Initiatives

The Graduate Center, CUNY

pronouns: she/her/ella

Ask me about Manifold!

 

Introduction to Manifold

Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Registration link: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/j/85358716477?pwd=xbOZhcIjzG20IKKlfleec5zlVE0da8.1&jst=1

Please join us for a 1.5-hour Introduction to Manifold workshop. In the first part of the workshop we will provide an overview of the Manifold digital publishing platform and explore how it is being used at CUNY to create beautiful, dynamic, multimedia digital projects and Open Educational Resources (OER) such as custom versions of public domain texts, multi-text course readers, class projects, and journals.

In the second part of the workshop participants will create their own Manifold Project, learn how to customize the layout of their Project, add Texts and Resources, and use Manifold’s built-in Social Annotation. We will provide all the digital materials needed to create a Manifold Project but participants are welcome to use their own EPUBS, Word (.docx) files, Google docs, images, YouTube videos, etc.

No prior experience with digital publishing is required. A Manifold Project Creator role is required for the second part of this workshop.

Sign up for a Manifold Reader account first and then request to change your role to Project Creator.

Go to the CUNY Manifold home page https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/

1. Click on the Sign Up link to create a Manifold Reader account.
2. After you create your Reader account, return to the Manifold home page and click on the Project Creator Request link.

 

Teaching with Social Annotation on Manifold

Date: Friday, September 19, 2025

Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Registration link: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/UqPLcI_wSBGXQCGeRpB_XA

Social annotation can be a great way to “open up” a text: to make it a learning object for scrutiny, interpretation, and enrichment. Teaching with social annotation fosters opportunities for instructors and students to think, read, and learn together in and beyond the classroom. With Manifold’s annotation tool and reading groups, you can highlight, annotate, and discuss a text, and make your annotations public, private, or visible only to a group. In this workshop, we will walk you through these social annotation features and annotate together in Manifold.

A Manifold Reader account is required. To sign up, go to the CUNY Manifold home page https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/, and click on the Sign Up link to create a Manifold Reader account.

Dear CUNY Manifold Users,

I hope your Fall semester has started smoothly.

We will be teaching two Manifold workshops next week and we hope you will be able to join us, all are welcome!

Please see workshop details below.

 

Kind regards,

Robin

—

Robin Miller, MSLIS

Open Educational Technologist | GC Digital Initiatives

The Graduate Center, CUNY

pronouns: she/her/ella

Ask me about Manifold!

 

Introduction to Manifold

Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Registration link: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/j/85358716477?pwd=xbOZhcIjzG20IKKlfleec5zlVE0da8.1&jst=1

Please join us for a 1.5-hour Introduction to Manifold workshop. In the first part of the workshop we will provide an overview of the Manifold digital publishing platform and explore how it is being used at CUNY to create beautiful, dynamic, multimedia digital projects and Open Educational Resources (OER) such as custom versions of public domain texts, multi-text course readers, class projects, and journals.

In the second part of the workshop participants will create their own Manifold Project, learn how to customize the layout of their Project, add Texts and Resources, and use Manifold’s built-in Social Annotation. We will provide all the digital materials needed to create a Manifold Project but participants are welcome to use their own EPUBS, Word (.docx) files, Google docs, images, YouTube videos, etc.

No prior experience with digital publishing is required. A Manifold Project Creator role is required for the second part of this workshop.

Sign up for a Manifold Reader account first and then request to change your role to Project Creator.

Go to the CUNY Manifold home page https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/

1. Click on the Sign Up link to create a Manifold Reader account.
2. After you create your Reader account, return to the Manifold home page and click on the Project Creator Request link.

 

Teaching with Social Annotation on Manifold

Date: Friday, September 19, 2025

Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Registration link: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/UqPLcI_wSBGXQCGeRpB_XA

Social annotation can be a great way to “open up” a text: to make it a learning object for scrutiny, interpretation, and enrichment. Teaching with social annotation fosters opportunities for instructors and students to think, read, and learn together in and beyond the classroom. With Manifold’s annotation tool and reading groups, you can highlight, annotate, and discuss a text, and make your annotations public, private, or visible only to a group. In this workshop, we will walk you through these social annotation features and annotate together in Manifold.

A Manifold Reader account is required. To sign up, go to the CUNY Manifold home page https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/, and click on the Sign Up link to create a Manifold Reader account.