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Redmine CUNY Academic Commons - Support #18982 (Reporter Feedback): Sites missing pages, menus, icons, ba...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/189822023-10-05T23:52:11ZMarilyn WeberMweber@gc.cuny.edu
<p>Syelle Graves reports:</p>
<p>"Our websites are acting very strange across three browsers.<br />Our main site menu is sprawled out instead of dropping down, and the site homepage icon/banner is gone: <br /><a class="external" href="https://iletc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/we-authors/">https://iletc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/we-authors/</a> <br />These sites are missing most of the pages that we had in the menu, and the missing pages are gone from dashboard, as well, not even in a trash folder:<br /><a class="external" href="https://weauthors.commons.gc.cuny.edu/">https://weauthors.commons.gc.cuny.edu/</a><br /><a class="external" href="https://8nsshl2021.commons.gc.cuny.edu/">https://8nsshl2021.commons.gc.cuny.edu/</a> (this site also has no more image at the top of the site).<br />Is there some kind of bug going on at the Commons? I just noticed all of these issues today. I don't see anything new on redmine so I can't imagine what's going on. <br />Thanks for your help!"</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #18412 (Reporter Feedback): New themes for template sites & templ...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/184122023-06-26T19:17:21ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>I looked through some themes today to see what options we have for updating the template sites. Below I have provided some info about where I landed on new themes for the templates. If you want to live preview the new suggestions on the template sites, just let me know and I can add you as an admin.</p>
<p>Teaching Template: <a class="external" href="https://teaching-template.commons.gc.cuny.edu/">https://teaching-template.commons.gc.cuny.edu/</a><br />Current: Twenty Twelve<br />New: Tempo</p>
<p>This is likely the most important choice because I think this is the most used template.</p>
<p>Academic Portfolio Template: <a class="external" href="https://academic-portfolio-template.commons.gc.cuny.edu/">https://academic-portfolio-template.commons.gc.cuny.edu/</a><br />Current: Academica<br />New: Puskar</p>
<p>I would also suggest we change the site name and name in the site creation process to "Faculty & instructor portfolio template" to discourage student use of the template. We have many students building portfolios now and "academic" is too broad.</p>
<p>Conference Template: <a class="external" href="https://conftemplate.commons.gc.cuny.edu/">https://conftemplate.commons.gc.cuny.edu/</a><br />Current Sydney <br />New: sydney<br /> I would suggest we leave the theme the same because Sydney has changed recently and there are many new options that make it a great theme.</p>
<p>I can make all these changes because I am an admin on the template sites (except name change during site creation) Let me know what you all think and we can discuss before I change anything.</p>
<p>I am also wondering if we can get a report on number of sites that have used each template to determine how often these templates are being chosed during creation.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #17739 (Testing Required): Embedding docs from Word in Microsoft ...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/177392023-02-28T17:06:40ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>As you may or may not know, CUNY has been transitioning all faculty, staff, and students to Microsoft Office 365 cloud. So instead of having Microsoft Office software, everyone now gets these tools and saves docs etc in the 365 cloud.</p>
<p>Someone in a training asked about embedding the Live cloud-hosted word docs into a commons site, similar to how Google docs works, so that when they update their Word doc the commons embed is also updated. This is different from how Word and the Commons works now, where faculty have to upload the static document.</p>
<p>Some examples of sharing links from a test cloud-hosted word doc:</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://cuny907-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/laurie_hurson91_login_cuny_edu/EVX7t5bl5ghBlYt7ACvbWT4B1D7pj40Z0EC3MveWkMT8HA?e=0wjaf6">https://cuny907-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/laurie_hurson91_login_cuny_edu/EVX7t5bl5ghBlYt7ACvbWT4B1D7pj40Z0EC3MveWkMT8HA?e=0wjaf6</a></p>
<p><iframe src="https://cuny907-my.sharepoint.com/personal/laurie_hurson91_login_cuny_edu/_layouts/15/Doc.aspx?sourcedoc={96b7fb55-e6e5-4108-958b-7b002bdb593e}&action=embedview" width="476px" height="288px" frameborder="0">This is an embedded <a target="_blank" href="https://office.com">Microsoft Office</a> document, powered by <a target="_blank" href="https://office.com/webapps">Office</a>.</iframe></p> CUNY Academic Commons - Support #17621 (Reporter Feedback): increase Maximum file sizehttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/176212023-02-04T21:18:51ZMarilyn WeberMweber@gc.cuny.edu
<p>From Seonae Byeon:</p>
<p>As mentioned in the past emails, I am a collaborator for the land use oral history project. I am building a website to archive many audios and transcripts. I am unable to upload any audio files. Because the maximum upload file size is set to 128 MB. Could you please increase this to 1500 MB?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Design/UX #17018 (Reporter Feedback): Analytics for Profile Fields & Feat...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/170182022-10-12T21:20:03ZSara Cannon
<p>Hello! Can I get some database queries for some stats on the following?</p>
<p>- Can you pull links to the top 25 most active profiles?<br />- under your profile, you see the stat “Your profile is X% complete”. Can you pull % of profiles 100% complete, % of profiles below 75% complete, % of profiles below 50% complete, and % of profiles below 25% complete<br />- % of profiles Using IM Link, How many have added IM link in the past 2 years, in the past 3 months<br />- % of profiles Using Flickr ID, How many have added Flickr ID in the past 2 years, in the past 3 months<br />- % of profiles Using Delicious ID, How many have added Delicious ID in the past 2 years, in the past 3 months<br />- % of profiles Using ORCID ID, How many have added an ORCID ID in the past 2 years, in the past 3 months<br />- % of profiles Using Google Scholar, How many have added Google Scholar in the past 2 years, in the past 3 months<br />- % of profiles Using Blog URL, How many have added Blog URL in the past 2 years, in the past 3 months<br />- % of profiles Using RSS Feed, How many have added an RSS Feed in the past 2 years, in the past 3 months<br />- % of profiles Using the status update, How many have added a status update in the past 2 years, in the past 3 months</p>
<p>Thank You</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Feature #15923 (Reporter Feedback): Bellows Plugin Adjustmentshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/159232022-04-18T16:41:35ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>The folks at the GC Writing Center are working on building out a series of writing/revision resources on their website here:</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://gcwritingcenter.commons.gc.cuny.edu/revision-strategies/">https://gcwritingcenter.commons.gc.cuny.edu/revision-strategies/</a></p>
<p>They are using the Bellows plugin to create the sidebar menu you see on the left of that page and other pages clicked on through the menu.</p>
<p>They were wondering if it would be possible to make some adjustments to how the plugin works. It would be ideal if the sidebar menu:</p>
<p>- highlights which page a user is on. <br /> Meaning if you are on RS argument, the background color of the sidebar menu highlights this page.</p>
<p>- show the the path the user took to arrive at each page. <br /> Meaning, at the top each page the breadcrumbs info shows the top level and lower level menu items that lead to that page. For example if I was on this page <a class="external" href="https://gcwritingcenter.commons.gc.cuny.edu/rs_ventilation/">https://gcwritingcenter.commons.gc.cuny.edu/rs_ventilation/</a> the breadcrumbs at the top would be "Home > RS Style > rs_ventilation"</p>
<p>I am not sure what our policy is on editing plugins for single use cases but these changes to Bellows seemed simple enough and potentially useful for other users.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Support #15176 (Reporter Feedback): Archiving Q Writing & Old Wordpress S...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/151762022-01-11T15:39:32ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Hi Boone, Ray, All,</p>
<p>I am meeting with librarians and staff from Queens College later this week to talk about the use of Q-Writing and the Commons on their campus. I spoke with them last semester and they had asked about some form of migration or archiving of Q writing on the Commons.</p>
<p>Some background: Q Writing is a Wordpress multi-site platform that the Queens College Center for Teaching and Learning set up years ago. As far as I can tell, it is not as consistently used or maintained as the Commons or other campus-specific Wordpress platforms throughout CUNY. The Queens college folks have asked about the "possibility of incorporating QC’s current WordPress MU site into the Commons." Qwriting currently has 8,195 sites and 22,538 users.</p>
<p>I told them migrating or archiving Q writing in the Commons was probably not possible but when I spoke to Matt briefly about it, he mentioned I should ask about HTML flattening or other possibilities. The Queens college folks had thought about setting up a CBOX to replace Q writing but I told them, and they likely already knew, that setting CBOX presented that same maintenance and sustainability issues they were already experiencing.</p>
<p>Any insight about possibilities for archiving, flattening, etc would be appreciated. Even if we can only do some of the sites (or none), that would be helpful for me to know and share with them when we meet on Thursday.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Support #14842 (Reporter Feedback): Question about widgets and block editorhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/148422021-10-06T14:27:02ZGina Cherry
<p>I make extensive use of the Widget Context plugin to control which widgets appear in different areas of my websites. As I understand it, this plugin does not work with the new widget block editor. How can I accomplish this type of control over widgets in the new environment?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #14629 (Reporter Feedback): Possible Post Order Bug?https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/146292021-07-26T14:58:27ZSyelle Graves
<p>Greetings,</p>
<p>I am noticing something strange about the post order on this site <a class="external" href="https://8nsshl2021.commons.gc.cuny.edu/">https://8nsshl2021.commons.gc.cuny.edu/</a><br />The posts do not seem to show by the expected default order (reverse chronological.)</p>
<p>In addition, when I activate the simple Custom Post Order plugin in an attempt to get the posts to show in the order we want (happens to be alphabetical by title), that solution is also foiled.</p>
<p>I’ve included two screenshots (dashboard and front end).</p>
<p>When I first set these timestamps in order to show the posts alphabetically, the posts did show in the correct order. But since then, they have reverted to an order that looks random.</p>
<p>I attempted to re-create this on a test site, thinking that it might be related to the 2017 theme, but I got mixed results (the "Hello World" post showed at the top, when it should show last, even when I changed themes, which seemed odd, and the rest showed in normal order. Sorry I don't have more info there.)</p>
<p>Let me know if I can provide any additional info/apologies if this is something simple.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Support #14538 (Reporter Feedback): Weebly To Commonshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/145382021-06-08T16:25:06ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>I met with a faculty member who runs the Lehman Lab for Social Analysis: <a class="external" href="https://www.lehmanlab.org/">https://www.lehmanlab.org/</a></p>
<p>She would like to move the Lehman Lab site onto Commons along with several of the websites for the courses the lab offers, linked below</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://www.lehman-guns-research.org/">https://www.lehman-guns-research.org/</a></p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://nycethnography.weebly.com/">https://nycethnography.weebly.com/</a></p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://foodhealthmigrationlehman.weebly.com/">https://foodhealthmigrationlehman.weebly.com/</a></p>
<p>These 4 sites are on Weebly currently but she would like to move them over to the Commons so they can be further built out and used each semester, in tandem with the courses that will now also run on the Commons.</p>
<p>I have looked online for various methods of exporting Weebly to Wordpress but the exporter that is out there (<a class="external" href="https://weeblytowp.com/">https://weeblytowp.com/</a>) does work in this case because the site are all pages, not blogs.</p>
<p>There seems to be another method for moving to WordPress that involves exporting an HTML archive of the site and then uploading HTML archive to Wordpress. However, I do not believe we have a way to upload HTML archives to the Commons (I think this is a security issue).</p>
<p>Moving these sites to the Commons will be a one time thing since, once they are on the Commons she will continue building out the sites in the CAC space.</p>
<p>Any suggestions for how we might export/import these Weebly sites onto Commmons (preferably avoiding a manual copy/paste method, if possible)?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Publicity #14504 (Reporter Feedback): Adding showcases to home page menuhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/145042021-05-28T12:52:19ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>Can we add the Conference and OER showcase pages to the main menu on the Commons? I have access to create pages on the main site but am not sure how to add them to this main menu. I don't want to try and mess something up.</p>
<p>Two showcase pages to add to main menu, under "About":</p>
<p>Conference:https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/conferences-on-the-commons/<br />OER: <a class="external" href="https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/open-educational-resource-projects-on-the-commons/">https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/open-educational-resource-projects-on-the-commons/</a></p>
<p>Thanks!</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Support #12484 (Reporter Feedback): Sign up Code for COIL Course starting...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/124842020-02-27T16:01:55ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>I am supporting a faculty member who will be teaching a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) course on the Commons starting in March. In COIL courses, CUNY students take a course in tandem with other international students and they work together and interact online. This professor would like to allow the co-teachers and students from two other universities to join the COIL course site. In total it would be about 30-40 non-cuny teachers and students signing up for the coil course.</p>
<p>Would it be possible to generate a signup code for these COIL folks to join the Commons?</p> AD/O365 Transition from NonMatric to Matriculated Students - Feature #12062 (In Progress): creat...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/120622019-11-12T20:50:21ZEmilio RodriguezCUNY Academic Commons - Support #12004 (Reporter Feedback): Notifications for spam blog commentshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/120042019-10-22T18:30:17ZGina Cherry
<p>You recently added functionality to the Commons so that the site administrator receives an email notification when a comment goes to spam. This worked for awhile, but today I noticed two comments in spam for which I was not notified.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Support #11149 (Reporter Feedback): comments getting blockedhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/111492019-02-25T15:15:05ZMarilyn WeberMweber@gc.cuny.edu
<p>User Ralitsa Todorova writes:<br />"I am using the commons for the courses I am teaching and have a discussion board component where students needs to submit posts. Each week now, there are a handful of students whose responses get flagged as spam, even though they’ve created accounts (and I’ve made the page visible only to those with accounts) and have had posts approved that have gone through before. Is there any way to fix this so that it stops spamming their messages? I get flooded with panicked emails each weekend and it would really help if the site would stop blocking their posts."</p>
<p>I suspect you'll have follow-up questions. LMK what to ask.</p>