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What Is The CUNY Academic Commons?
The CUNY Academic Commons is an open space where the CUNY community can find like-minded colleagues, build personal or professional websites, teach, learn, and collaborate in open classrooms. The Commons has over thirty thousand members, and each member can join … Continue reading →
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How do I “personalize” the Commons?
When you are logged into the Commons, you’ll find the Commons home page is personalized for you. The Commons home page can be accessed from any where on the site by going to the top left hand corner and clicking … Continue reading →
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Password Best Practices
Passwords are ubiquitous these days and choosing ones that are hard to guess and easy to remember is challenging. The following tips will help make your digital life more secure. Don’t share your passwords with anyone. Even if someone is … Continue reading →
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Export Personal Data
The Commons is a social network and collects personal data and content. If you wish to see the content you have contributed, you can request it. Go to Account Settings>>Export Data. You will then see this screen. Click on the Request … Continue reading →
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Account Settings Tab
When you first join and start using the Commons, you’ll probably want to personalize your account settings. Hover over your profile photo on the upper right hand corner and click on “Account Settings.” Here you can: Change you profile photo … Continue reading →
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Getting Started FAQ
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Departments / Committees
The Commons is a great space to manage your department or committee! Typically, private groups are used to centralize documents, discuss topics, post minutes, and collaborate on projects. [more to come]
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Ways To Use The Commons
Members use the Commons in many different ways. Listed below are some of them: Teaching Classes – professors from all CUNY campuses can use the Commons to teach classes. We offer a site teaching template to make it easy to get … Continue reading →
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Privacy, Student Names and Aliases
We encourage faculty to explore teaching on the open web using the Commons, but it is important to vigilantly respect student privacy. Both groups and sites have privacy settings that can be used to control visibility. Many class groups are … Continue reading →
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Changing your Title in your profile
If you set up your profile a while ago, you may have entered something in the title field. We’ve retired that area of the profile, so you cannot change it . Instead, please use the Positions Widget. Three fields are … Continue reading →
