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Redmine CUNY Academic Commons - Support #19680 (New): JetPack https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/196802024-02-05T18:19:08ZMarilyn WeberMweber@gc.cuny.edu
<p>My name is Malkah, and I am a writing consultant at the Graduate Center's Writing Center. We are in the process of creating a newsletter, which we will send to our mailing list, and we would like to use JetPack since it is already linked to our CUNY Commons website.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, as our mailing list exceeds 100 recipients, we cannot use the free version of JetPack. I am writing to inquire if</p>
<p>1. CUNY has a paid subscription to JetPack, which we can access.<br />2. If CUNY does not have a paid subscription to JetPack, can we at the Writing Center purchase this subscription and still have JetPack linked to our CUNY Commons website?</p>
<p>Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you.</p>
<p>All the best,<br />Malkah Bressler</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Support #19605 (New): AI question from Ned Bentonhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/196052024-01-26T17:19:25ZMarilyn WeberMweber@gc.cuny.edu
<p>Ned Benton asks:</p>
<p><a class="email" href="mailto:nbenton@jjay.cuny.edu">nbenton@jjay.cuny.edu</a> | January 26, 2024 9:20 am<br />Will CUNY Commons install any plug-ins that connect to AI services. I am thinking of this one but there may be others.</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://wordpress.com/plugins/ai-engine">https://wordpress.com/plugins/ai-engine</a></p>
<p>I have posted in NESRI an article about AI and slavery records. Here it is.</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://nesri.commons.gc.cuny.edu/artificial-intelligence-and-slavery-research/">https://nesri.commons.gc.cuny.edu/artificial-intelligence-and-slavery-research/</a></p>
<p>While this article reveals risks and deficiencies, I continue to think that AI could become a useful way to explain records of slavery at the individual level. We are working on a project we call NESRI 2.0 which involves adding several more fields to will enrich the interconnections between the 90,000 records that we have.</p>
<p>If we eventually do this system-wide, we have the challenge of presenting this to users. I first approach is to add a table to our locality reports that lists the families, in the locality specified for the report, with a link to click into the records of any family, so people in Boston can learn of families of enslaved people in the 1700s. But I also think that I can code the database to construct a test string that can be submitted as a prompt to an AI service to get back an essay about the family - the names and relationships and events in their lives and in the community when they lived. The service would have to have guardrails to not make up information.</p>
<p>Ned Benton</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Support #18019 (New): Newsletter, anewhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/180192023-04-13T00:42:42ZMarilyn WeberMweber@gc.cuny.edu
<p>GC admin Rukshana Jalil writes:</p>
<p>I’d like to install a newsletter plugin for my program’s Commons site but not sure which one is available for us. I believe there were some issues with this in the past and I don’t know if it has been solved.</p>
<p>Could you let me know if I would be able to do this? This would be for four Commons sites (for each of the Certificate programs).</p>
<p>Searching Redmine, I see this tickets explaining the news letter problem</p>
<p><img src="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/attachments/download/25117/clipboard-202304122037-iw8nh.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>Are there any fresh takes on this perennial problem? Thank you!</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Design/UX #17677 (New): Cataloguing notification typeshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/176772023-02-16T18:54:32ZBoone Gorgesboone@gorg.es
<p>Following up on a recent dev call, here's a list of unique notification types on the Commons:</p>
<pre>
| added_reader |
| bbp_new_reply |
| comment_mention |
| followedpaper_comment |
| followedpaper_edit |
| friendship_accepted |
| friendship_request |
| group_invite |
| membership_request_accepted |
| membership_request_rejected |
| member_promoted_to_admin |
| member_promoted_to_mod |
| mypaper_comment |
| new_at_mention |
| new_membership_request |
| new_message |
| new_wire_post |
| pending_booking |
</pre>
<p>We can eliminate several that are related to Social Paper: <code>added_reader</code>, <code>comment_mention</code>, <code>followedpaper_comment</code>, <code>followedpaper_edit</code>, <code>mypaper_comment</code>. In addition, <code>new_wire_post</code> is linked to a feature that we no longer have on the Commons. This leaves us with:</p>
<p>1. bbp_new_reply - Created by bbPress for user A when user B posts a reply to a forum topic or reply written by A. <br />2. friendship_accepted - Created by BP for user A when user B accepts a friendship request that A sent to B.<br />3. friendship_request - Created by BP for user A when user B sends a friendship request to A.<br />4. group_invite - Created by BP for user A when user B invites A to join a group.<br />5. membership_request_accepted - Created by BP for user A when A requests membership in a group, and the group's admin approves the request<br />6. membership_request_rejected - Created by BP for user A when A requests membership in a group, and the group's admin rejects the request<br />7. member_promoted_to_admin - Created by BP for user A when A is promoted in a group from 'member' to 'admin'<br />8. member_promoted_to_mod - Created by BP for user A when A is promoted in a group from 'member' to 'mod'<br />9. new_at_mention - Created by BP for user A when A is at-mentioned anywhere tracked by BuddyPress. Notably for our purpose, this includes blog posts, blog comments, forum posts.<br />10. new_membership_request - Created by BP for user A when A is the admin of a private group, and user B requests membership in that group<br />11. new_message - Created by BP for user A when A receives a private message<br />12. pending_booking - Created by the events-manager plugin for user A when user A has created an event with booking, and user B books for that event. events-manager is <strong>not</strong> a plugin that we run on the main site, so this must be something that happens on secondary sites</p>
<p>Of these, a number are purely informational. 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12 A right-hand notifications pane could have a message that summarizes the information ("So-and-so replied to your forum post") and then links to that content.</p>
<p>Several of them have obvious follow-up actions. 3, 4, 10, perhaps 11. A right-hand notifications pane could have a link that points you to the page where you'd perform the action, or perhaps it could show you the interface for actually performing the action (ie, accepting the friendship).</p>
<p>I hope this is a helpful start.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Design/UX #15210 (New): Google Analytics improvementshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/152102022-01-21T23:17:49ZColin McDonald
<p>Sara's asked how she can see how often users are clicking on links in the various parts of the public/private new homepage. I'm not sure our Google Analytics (GA) setup is configured for this currently, and I pretty quickly hit my own knowledge and implementation limits on it so wanted to throw it to the dev team here.</p>
<p>If I understand correctly, we need to use the new GA-4 (as opposed to Universal Analytics or UA, see <a class="issue tracker-3 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Support: Google Analytics 4 tagging (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/13511">#13511</a>) features to do this. I also believe we'll need to set up Events that recognize clicks in different areas of the page. I took a stab below at outlining the different sections. From here though, I'm a bit out of my depth. I think this is more of a challenge due to the dynamic nature of the link lists -- the URL of the link is actually less important, for these purposes, than if I clicked on it in My Sites or Activity From My Campus or wherever. It may matter that most of these links may not technically be "outbound" by GA's definition because they're still on the commons.gc.edu domain, but that's unclear to me too.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if we could tie different GA-4 events via CSS class to these sections or something similar, or if we need to append additional CSS or other code to structure this correctly. I also assume we'll be inserting more GA-4 code into the site, whether it makes sense to do that manually or via the Google Tag Manager service seemingly offered for things like this. GA-4 collects general events like all 'clicks' automatically, but nothing more granular without customization:</p>
<p><a class="external" href="https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/9234069?hl=en&ref_topic=9756175">https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/9234069?hl=en&ref_topic=9756175</a></p>
<p>I'm also not really sure of the best way to track clicks on the more universal parts of the site, like the header (nav) and footer. There used to be a Chrome extension that was half-decent at this, but Google stopped supporting/updating that in 2019.</p>
<p>I think I'll leave it here for now, in the hopes that Boone/Ray/Jeremy have some experience to bear here, or can at least pick up the more technical parts of this thread. Let me know what else I can do to help steer and describe this.</p>
<p>One last thing - Sara would also like to be able to see how often the People page filters are being used, and which aspects are the most popular. I believe we set up something like this in <a class="issue tracker-2 status-5 priority-4 priority-default closed" title="Feature: Track directory filter use in Google Analytics (Resolved)" href="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/11760">#11760</a>, but I'm not sure if it's still functional or how to find it in our Analytics dashboard.</p>
<p>Distinct Sections to Track Clicks, public homepage:<br />- Register / Login / Learn More top blade<br />- Latest News<br />- Featured Sites<br />- Active Sites<br />- Featured Groups<br />- Active Groups<br />- Members</p>
<p>Distinct Sections to Track Clicks, private homepage:<br />- Under-avatar links<br />- My Sites<br />- My Groups<br />- Latest News<br />- Shortcuts (by URL might be helpful here)<br />- CUNY-Wide Activity<br />- Campus Activity<br />- Featured Groups<br />- Groups Across CUNY<br />- Campus Groups<br />- Featured Sites<br />- Sites Across CUNY<br />- Campus Sites<br />- Members Across CUNY<br />- Campus Members</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Publicity #14475 (New): OER Showcase Pagehttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/144752021-05-19T15:59:39ZLaurie Hurson
<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>Beginnings of the OER Project Showcase page are here: <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>Right now it is limited to projects that have been developed since CUNY began receiving OER funds from the state.</p>
<p>If we want to go further back (there are some open ed projects from 2011, 2015, etc) we can, but wanted to get feedback and discuss the aim of the page (e.g. are we trying to highlight grant funded projects or all open ed work on the commons?)</p>
<p>Thanks,<br />Laurie</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Documentation #12392 (New): Updates to Common Commons Questions on Help Pagehttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/123922020-02-10T21:28:23Zscott vothscott.voth@verizon.net
<p>In our last community meeting we spoke of updating the questions on the Front Page of our Help site. I made a bunch of changes/additions here: <a class="external" href="https://help.commons.gc.cuny.edu/">https://help.commons.gc.cuny.edu/</a></p>
<p>Marilyn - I am adding you as a watcher, since you know what are the most prevalent questions that come through ZenDesk.</p> 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 - Support #12247 (New): Screenshot of First Commons Homepagehttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/122472020-01-02T21:16:48Zscott vothscott.voth@verizon.net
<p>I have tried with the Wayback Machine - for example: <a class="external" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090328021608/http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/">https://web.archive.org/web/20090328021608/http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/</a></p>
<p>The CSS is not resolving. I have tried the archive dates before the official launch, but I always get an unstyled page. After the official launch all archive pages style correctly.</p>
<p>Is there a way to see the actual site as it was back then? Even an old screenshot would suffice.</p>
<p>I am working on a Commons Timeline - <a class="external" href="https://news.commons.gc.cuny.edu/commons-ten-year-retrospective/">https://news.commons.gc.cuny.edu/commons-ten-year-retrospective/</a> and it would be great to show the first instances of the Commons.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Support #11883 (New): Need Embedding Help Page Update (Tableau)https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/118832019-09-19T21:43:37ZAnthony Wheeler
<p>Hi Scott,</p>
<p>So I was recently trying to embed a Tableau visualization into a Commons site when I ran into a couple of roadblocks. I went to our Help Page for embedding from other websites, and it was helpful, but something we may want to add is that when copying the share link over from Tableau, you have to make sure you copy the link under "Original View" <br /><img src="https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/attachments/download/12443/Screen%20Shot%202019-09-19%20at%205.40.11%20PM.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>It was only after that discovery that the visualization was fully functioning within the Commons. I attached (or tried to attach) a screenshot to hopefully show you what I'm talking about.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Support #11624 (New): Change pages into posts or swap database for a Comm...https://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/116242019-07-08T18:42:52ZStephen KleinSKlein@gc.cuny.edu
<p>Working on our internal site. <br />Wondering if you could either:</p>
<p>Run this SQL:<br />UPDATE wp_posts SET post_type = 'post' WHERE post_type = 'page'</p>
<p>for:<br /><a class="external" href="https://gclibrarywiki.commons.gc.cuny.edu/">https://gclibrarywiki.commons.gc.cuny.edu/</a></p>
<p>I did this on my own server.</p>
<p>Or if I give you a SQL file, can you swap it for what is already there?</p>
<p>The latter is preferred, because on my own server, I radically re-worked the entire taxonomy.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Support #11545 (New): Twitter searches in WordPresshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/115452019-06-11T15:52:47ZGina Cherry
<p>We would like to display recent tweets from a Twitter search (e.g., #openpedagogy) in a widget on our site. Do you have any suggestions about how to do this? I've looked at the existing plugins and none of them seem to support this (they only support displaying your own tweets). I've also tried creating an rss feed of the search and using one of the rss widgets, but this has also failed for various reasons (feedburners not working or not supporting this type of feed). Is there a different approach that I've overlooked? Or is it possible to install a plugin that would support this?</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Support #10839 (New): Mission Statement Needs Revisionhttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/108392018-12-17T22:01:16Zscott vothscott.voth@verizon.net
<p>Now that there is so much teaching going on on the Commons, our mission statement should mention it.</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Publicity #5298 (New): Survey Pop-Up Texthttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/52982016-03-08T17:05:23ZSamantha Raddatz
<p>I think the pop-up asking people to take the survey should be short and sweet. How about this?</p>
<a name="Help-us-improve-the-CUNY-Academic-Commons"></a>
<h2 >Help us improve the CUNY Academic Commons...<a href="#Help-us-improve-the-CUNY-Academic-Commons" class="wiki-anchor">¶</a></h2>
<a name="Please-take-this-5-minute-survey-about-your-use-of-the-Commons-and-be-entered-to-win-a-brand-new-iPad"></a>
<h3 >Please take <a href="https://cunyacademiccommons.typeform.com/to/o3IPTa" class="external">this 5 minute survey</a> about your use of the Commons and be entered to win a <strong>brand new iPad</strong>!<a href="#Please-take-this-5-minute-survey-about-your-use-of-the-Commons-and-be-entered-to-win-a-brand-new-iPad" class="wiki-anchor">¶</a></h3>
<p>(Screenshot of the pop-up styling attached for reference)</p> CUNY Academic Commons - Documentation #3565 (New): Load Newest inconsistencieshttps://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/35652014-10-16T17:39:49ZChris Steincstein@bmcc.cuny.edu
<p>Right now Load Newest button is only showing for mobile devices and only on the Everything filter.</p>
<p>Ideally it would always show, but if it is too difficult right now to get it working with the filters then it could just be added for non-mobile sizes.</p>