The Commons Development Team recently released an update to the privacy options for groups. The new release adds a question to the “Public” privacy settings option that allows a Group Admin to make a public group only visible to logged-in Commons members.
Now, if you select the “Public” setting option under Group Privacy, you…[Read more]
As members of the Group for Group Admins, you are all invited to join the next Commons Open Community meeting due to your extensive usage and knowledge of our platform. During the meeting we’d love to hear from you, our admin-level users, about how you are using the Commons to develop projects, facilitate collaboration, and foster connections…[Read more]
Hello all, I wanted to let you know that the Commons hosting migration that we announced last month will begin in one week, at 10:30am Eastern on Wednesday, January 15th. Because of the size and complexity of the data involved, please expect the Commons to be unavailable for 48-72 hours after the migration starts. During the downtime, we will…[Read more]
Hello Commons group admins, I wanted to let you know that we are planning a maintenance and feature release on Tuesday, Dec 17th around 11am Eastern. It is possible that the site will experience a couple hours of downtime as a result.
We apologize for any inconvenience. We are planning for this to be our last release before our scheduled hosting…[Read more]
Our team just published this news post about two big upcoming projects. We are migrating hosts to improve Commons stability and performance, and we are starting a biannual series of Open Community Meetings to share updates, answer questions, and hear your feedback. We hope that you can join the first meeting…[Read more]
Hello Commons Group Admins, I wanted to let you know that the Commons will be inaccessible for maintenance tomorrow evening, Friday 10/18/2024, at 9:30 pm ET for two to three hours. Thanks for your patience, and feel free to message me with any questions!
Hello Commons Group admins, and happy summer! I wanted to let you know that we just released a full redesign of Groups on the Commons. From the Group front page to the admin-only management settings, you’ll notice a new look and updated functionality across the board.
Thanks, Scott – hope the vacay was great. And will follow the directions.
Cheers,
Maryann
Maryann McKenzie
Recruitment & Diversity
University Human Resources
395 Hudson Street, 5th fl
New York NY 10014 [email protected]
T 646-664-3297
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From: Scott Voth (The Group for…[Read more]
Thanks for checking in. Yes! the Commons is being actively used — more
than ever, in fact! You may have noticed the pretty extensive redesign
process we’ve been working on over the past year — detailed on our News
blog – https://news.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ . And we have group redesigns
coming this summer.
YES, we need to do an update, long overdue on the FFPP site. We need to add lots more info to the site. In fact, I’ve been attempting to add another faculty to serve as admin – Anahi Viladrich of Queens College. Do you have a guide as to how I can get this done?
