In order to perform essential maintenance, the Academic Commons will experience occasional brief outages Sunday between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. We apologize for any inconvenience. Thank you for your patience, The Academic Commons Team
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Academic Commons will be offline Friday, August 5 from 10am to 4pm EDT
In order to perform a major server upgrade, the CUNY Academic Commons will be unavailable for three to six hours, beginning at 10:00 a.m. EDT on Friday, August 5. Normal service is expected to resume not later than 4:00 p.m. that day. We regret any inconvenience this outage may cause. –The CUNY Academic Commons Team
Academic Commons outage cancelled until further notice
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the maintenance work previously announced for Friday, July 29 has been rescheduled for a later date. The Commons WILL BE AVAILABLE on Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. EDT. As soon as the revised date has been determined we will post it. Thank you for your continued patience. –The CUNY Academic Commons Team

Academic Commons will be offline Friday, July 29 10am to 4pm EDT
In order to perform a major server upgrade, the CUNY Academic Commons will be unavailable for three to six hours, beginning at 10:00 a.m. EDT on Friday, July 29. Normal service is expected to resume not later than 4:00 p.m. that day. We regret any inconvenience this outage may cause. –The CUNY Academic Commons Team
Academic Commons Survey Results
We would like to offer our thanks to the CUNY Academic Commons Community for your great response to our April Survey. We thought you would like to see a summary of the feedback we received. Take a look to see how people are using the Academic Commons and what features they use most plus lots […]
Meet Charuta Kulkarni, the Commons Survey Raffle’s Lucky Winner
Last month, we invited the entire CUNY Academic Commons Community to give us feedback by responding to a survey. We would like to thank those of you who responded giving us a great deal of information that we will put to work making the Commons even better. Please stay tuned for the results of that […]

Events Calendars: Enhanced Integration with Sites, Private Calendars
Events Calendar has gotten even better since it was launched on the Commons as part of release 1.8 in May, 2015. A great new Events Calendar feature for Commons site owners is now available with version 1.9. Events Calendars can now be embedded on sites on the Commons. To embed a group events calendar on […]
Events Calendar: What Can You Do With It?
The marquee feature of the new release of CUNY Academic Commons is the Events Calendar. There are lots of different ways that your group might choose to use this new tool. To get you thinking, we offer here some illustrative examples of how to leverage the Events Calendar. Lectures and Meetings Many groups, such as […]
Events Calendar for Groups
Our newest feature is the Events Calendar. As we told you in our previous post, you can create Events as an individual or as a group. This week we will take a closer look at creating events in a group context. Calendar Navigation Find the Events link on the navigation bar on the left […]