Advanced Excerpt/ Page Excerpt

Go to Dashboard –> Settings –> Excerpt. This plug in allows you to determine how many words or sentences are previewed from each of your posts and pages. I recommend […]

In the ideal world…

we would have a theme with a BOLD site title, a brief tagline, and fixed menu. We would have full-width pages, no empty sidebar space, and simple colors. For now, we have a few dozen […]

Top 10-15 must-activate plugins that will help you organize your posts/pages and power your site.

01.

Gutenberg Collection

Watch the video tutorial below. Also, consider activating Atomic Blocks […]

Of Mountains & Printing Presses

The goal of this new editor is to make adding rich content to WordPress simple and enjoyable. This whole post is composed of pieces of content—somewhat similar to LEGO b […]

Our first course partnership took place in the 2021 Spring semester.

Positive growth.

Let’s showcase our learning process

Rather than ONLY posting the perfect, well edited, error-free […]

Professor Rodriguez’s Course

Students in Professor Rodriguez’s course will post their weekly reading reflections (or “zaps”) on their digital portfolios. They will also archive research notes and their […]

Professor Aptekar’s Course

Digital portfolios in Professor Aptekar’s course will be used to share feedback and assessment, between her and her students as well as between students. While grades are […]

Launch your digital portfolio this summer!

A lot of planning goes into setting up your digital portfolio. Come to office hours to identify your goals and figure out how to best use a digital portfolio to […]

Professor Attoh’s Course

Check out the digital portfolios from Professor Attoh’s course, Classical Approaches to Urban Studies. This course helped students engage with central themes that […]

Organize your content

Document your work history on your digital portfolio, you have several options.

First, remember, you can treat your “resume” page differently than your traditional resume, which […]

1) USE CATEGORIES. 2) DOCUMENT YOUR LEARNING PROCESS. 3) USE BLOCK EDITOR.

Thank you.

Thank you for joining us last Saturday, March 13th for our 3rd workshop of the 2021 Spring semester series, click on […]

POST/ PAGE DESIGN

Two Options: Classic and Block Editor

On CUNY Commons, you may create and edit your posts and pages using Classic Editor (see image on the right), which is a text editor with formatting […]

IMPORT OUR TEMPLATE. VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR RESOURCES

Thank you for joining us on Friday, February 19th for a workshop on building your digital portfolio on CUNY Academic Commons, a neat open-source […]

Know your Settings and Boundaries.When reflecting on your work, consider both your site’s privacy settings and your boundaries on the content you share.

CUNY Academic Commons is a neat open-source platform […]

Design your site: plugins and widgets.

Commons gives us over 300 plugins to activate.

Plugins must be activated (think “installed”) in order to use them as widgets to customize your Pages, Posts, […]

Create and design a page in your digital portfolio that will be easy for readers to learn about you and possibly contact you.

WRITE A QUICK BLURB. Consider answering the following questions. Do not be shy to […]