CUNY Graduate Center - Project Tracking System: Issueshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/favicon.ico2020-01-27T16:23:58ZCUNY Graduate Center - Project Tracking System
Redmine CUNY Academic Commons - Support #12328 (New): Sign up Code for Non-CUNY Facultyhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/123282020-01-27T16:23:58ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>I am in touch with two faculty teaching a data viz course this spring. They would like to join the commons to set up their course but do not have cuny email addresses. Can I provide them with a sign up code to allow them to join? If so, how does the code get created?</p>
<p>Thanks,<br />Laurie</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #12023 (Rejected): Surfacing Site Storage Capacity & Usehttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/120232019-10-29T15:28:53ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>A faculty member is asking about how much storage space is available for each site and how to know how much space they are using.</p>
<p>Typically, what is the storage limit for each site?</p>
<p>Is there a way to surface the storage limit to let faculty know how much space they have used? Blogs@baruch does this in the dashboard where the theme is listed, screenshot attached.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Design/UX #11843 (New): Tweaking the Gutenberg Editor Interfacehttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/118432019-09-10T18:58:33ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Continuing a discussion that began in ticket <a class="issue tracker-2 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Feature: CC Image Plugin (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/11833">#11833</a>: CC Image Plugin: <a class="external" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/11833">https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/11833</a></p>
<p>When a user is editing in the Gutenberg block editor view, the "Simple CSS" field is open/visible by default. This has confused multiple people who have entered post content in this field instead of into the content field. We may want to consider making the default setting for the "Simple CSS" area to closed/minimized.</p>
<p>Additionally, the content area where users enter the body of their post or page is poorly defined as the main place to enter info. The directional text in the content area is very small and the color contrast likely does not meet accessibility standards. We may want to consider reformatting this text in the block editor to make it more accessible and user friendly.</p>
<p>I think this also raises larger issues of accessibility of the block editor in general. Accessibility issues associated with the block editor were raised when Gutenberg was released but I am not sure how many of these issues have actually been addressed and fixed. I think Boone may know more about this?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #11836 (Resolved): Invite and "Claim Key" Confusionhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/118362019-09-09T15:14:50ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>A professor has reported confusion when students join the Commons. I am not exactly sure whats going on here...it might be that a student receives an email invite to join a site, clicks the link and registers for the Commons, and then goes back to the original email to try and join the course site? When the student checks their Profile>Invites there is an error message about a "claim key".</p>
<p>I'm not sure if this is a bug and/or how I should explain this situation to the professor. Any insight would be appreciated.</p>
<p>Excerpts from emails with the professor and student below:</p>
<p>Professor email: "So this is the 4th student who has contacted me about this exact issue. I think the invite link just no longer works once they've claimed it but they are all thinking there is something wrong or it didn't work, when it did."</p>
<p>Student email:<br />Good Evening professor, <br />I had some concerns regarding the CUNY commons website. I created an account however the invite link provided does not work. I can see this class listed under my "Sites" category which makes me wonder if it worked. I was just wondering if you could verify it for me. I attached the message that pops up when i try activating the invite link.</p>
<p>Screenshot from student email attached</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #11833 (Resolved): CC Image Pluginhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/118332019-09-06T15:28:33ZLaurie Hurson
<p>A new plugin adds the functionality to search and use CC-licensed images. This might be of interest and connect to our current work supporting OER and teaching on the Commons.</p>
<p>The plugin allows the author to search and use CC-lisensed images via a pop-up window in WordPress editor and the authors does not need to worry about copyright of images. This might also offer a space to add some pedagogical language about image use. something faculty ask about often.</p>
<p>WordPress repository plugin’s page: <a class="external" href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/ls-wp-ccsearch/">https://wordpress.org/plugins/ls-wp-ccsearch/</a></p>
<p>More in this blog post in opensource.creativecommons.org</p>
<p>This is a very new plugin so we may want to wait while bugs are worked out - I got this info from an email on the WP-EDU listserv.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #11674 (Resolved): Thematic theme: Remove/make unavailablehttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/116742019-07-30T16:42:10ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Thematic was last updated in 2013 (<a class="external" href="https://wordpress.org/themes/thematic/">https://wordpress.org/themes/thematic/</a>) Can we remove or make it unavailable so no new sites can use? Thanks!</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #11482 (Resolved): Page Authors on Sites create with templatehttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/114822019-05-21T15:31:04ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>When people select a site template (teaching, portfolio) during the creation process, the authors of the pages and posts on the newly created site are Luke, Paul Hebert, and I because we created the original templates. Is there a way to make the Commons Admin account the default author on the pages and posts of new sites that are created using the template?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #11415 (Abandoned): Blog Subscriptions in Jetpackhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/114152019-05-01T15:10:01ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>On the TLC blog Visible Pedagogy (<a class="external" href="https://vp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/">https://vp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/</a>) we use Jetpack's blog subscription to give readers the option to sign up to receive new posts via email. It appears the subscription feature is not working since our 40 subscribers did not receive the most recent posts via email.</p>
<p>I recently connected Jetpack to my WP.com account but I think this feature should work without that connection set up. Other than that, I couldn't see anything the back end to indicate why this isn't working. Any ideas what might be causing this bug?</p>
<p>Thanks,<br />Laurie</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #11200 (Resolved): User Summary (Reckoning plugin) not linking to sin...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/112002019-03-07T19:58:20ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Faculty members using the Reckoning plugin have noticed that they are unable to view the full summary of single user information.</p>
<p>When in User>User Summary there is a list of all site users with summarized content (screenshot1). Username should link to a page with all full length content in one page (screenshot 2 form B@B because unavailable on CAC). The username link is not working. When clicked it appears to load but then just defaults to the original user summary page. Issue is not allowing admins to view full length content.</p>
<p>Tested and confirmed bug here--> <br />All users summary: <a class="external" href="https://coursetest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/users.php?page=Reckoning">https://coursetest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/users.php?page=Reckoning</a><br />Should be single user full length summary: <a class="external" href="https://coursetest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/users.php?page=Reckoning&view=krystynamichael">https://coursetest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-admin/users.php?page=Reckoning&view=krystynamichael</a></p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #11131 (Reporter Feedback): Image Annotation Pluginshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/111312019-02-20T17:23:54ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Recently, a faculty member asked about installing the PRO version the plugin 'Draw Attention' (<a class="external" href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/draw-attention/">https://wordpress.org/plugins/draw-attention/</a>) for image annotation for her art history class. The free version currently on the Commons only allows annotation on one image per site and she was hoping to use it for student assignments (30-60 images per site). The plugin does not have front-end annotation but rather requires the user to create the annotations through the dashboard area of the plugin. In the dashboard, users select the clickable areas for front-end users to explore. From what I can tell in the free version, like a post, a user chooses an image, adds content (annotations) and posts the image. Tested here: <a class="external" href="https://coursetest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?da_image=123">https://coursetest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?da_image=123</a></p>
<p>The plugin is fairly easy to use through the dashboard interface but its unclear whether users can annotate images posted by others (but probably not, like posts)so its possible that this plugin does not allow for shared/collaborative annotation on a image.</p>
<p>Just FYI, the PRO version costs $74/year for one site and $124/year for unlimited sites, but I know the Commons tends to steer away from paid plugins. Moreover, dashboard editing and non-collaborative annotation may not be not ideal for a class setup. I think front-end annotation might work better since having users access the image through the back-end and set up annotations might be confusing for students and require admin user status as opposed to author status.</p>
<p>I'm not sure of other tools that do collaborative image annotation (other than VOCAT). One possibility is Demon Image Annotation but this plugin might work the same way as Draw Attention</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/demon-image-annotation/">https://wordpress.org/plugins/demon-image-annotation/</a></p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #11023 (Resolved): Teaching Template Sites: Posts return 404 Errorhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/110232019-01-28T16:11:29ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>Following up on this zen desk ticket: <a class="external" href="https://cunycommons.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/2807">https://cunycommons.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/2807</a></p>
<p>When a Commons user sets up a new site using the teaching template, clicking into posts from the blog roll results in a 404 error. The teaching template comes with a static "home" page setup and posts re-routed to a page called posts. Luke has found that visiting Settings>Permalinks on a teaching template site will resolve the 404 error.</p>
<p>I was able to recreate this issue in the site linked below and I have not visited Settings>Permalinks so the error is not resolved.</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://testing404.commons.gc.cuny.edu/posts/">https://testing404.commons.gc.cuny.edu/posts/</a></p>
<p>Also, can we add Luke as a watcher here? (I am not able to add watchers.)</p>
<p>Thanks!<br />Laurie</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #10952 (Resolved): Duplicate privacy options in group-site creationhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/109522019-01-14T17:39:23ZLaurie Hurson
<p>During the group creation process, in step #3 when "enable group site" is selected, it creates double privacy option settings for the linked site (screenshot below). A selection cannot be made for both sections, users can only select 1 of the 10 options. So it appears that the selection component is working correctly but the privacy section should only appear once.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #10258 (Resolved): Media Library uploads visible to all users on ...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/102582018-08-29T19:48:45ZLaurie Hurson
<p>All items uploaded to a site media library are visible to all users, not just administrators or the user who uploaded the media.</p>
<p>This is causing issues for professors who want students uploading images (of solutions to math problems) to a private homework post. Students (authors) are able to see other authors media, even though they are unable to see their private posts.</p>
<p>Is it possible to restrict authors' media library access/viewing to only images and media that they have uploaded?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #8944 (Resolved): Hypothesis Plugin not working on media library PDFshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/89442017-11-28T16:41:33ZLaurie Hurson
<p>The hypothesis plugin (<a class="external" href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/hypothesis/">https://wordpress.org/plugins/hypothesis/</a>) allows Commons users to annotate pages, posts, and PDFs on the commons site. Several faculty members who will be using the Commons for teaching next spring have expressed interest in using this plugin to annotate pdfs on their course sites.</p>
<p>On each page or post, a menu should/will pop out to allow for highlights and annotations. In the backend, admins can select to have the plugin run on PDFs in the media library. However, it appears that this feature does not work on PDFs uploaded to a Commons site's media library. I have been testing this on <a class="external" href="https://coursetest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/">https://coursetest.commons.gc.cuny.edu/</a></p>
<p>I am not sure if this is a commons firewall issue but the plugin doesn't seem to work for PDFs on public or private sites.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #8746 (Resolved): Site Creation - additional Privacy Settings https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/87462017-09-27T19:57:15ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Additional privacy settings are generated during site creation process when no site domain and site title are entered.</p>
<p>If you leave site domain and title blank or there is an issue with naming conventions (any privacy setting selected) and Click "Create site" you are sent to a new page with error message and must re-do. (screen 1)</p>
<p>However on this new page, new privacy settings are available "Privacy: I would like my site to appear in search engines, and in public listings around this network" [Buttons Yes -- No]" (screen 2)</p>
<p>Additional privacy settings are confusing and unnecessary. Furthermore, if a user then selects "No" (as is the case with "https://unionsfall17.commons.gc.cuny.edu/") the site is rendered unsearchable on the Commons and cannot be found.</p>