CUNY Academic Commons

Thanks for this Matt, I think these simplifications makes a lot of sense. Some thoughts:

Proposed: "A CUNY email address is required for registration. You may change your preferred email address after registering."

Do we want to clarify which cuny email address we mean? (campus, not cuny first "email")
Perhaps we could add a line like: "Please use your campus email address (e.g. name@brooklyn.cuny.edu), NOT the CUNYFirst web login (e.g. name@login.cuny.edu)." This could be added at the top or above the box where email is input (next to email input might be more effective).

Proposed: "Your profile photo will be used on your profile and throughout the site." (remove "If there is a Gravatar associated with your account email we will use that, or you can upload an image from your computer.")

I agree that gravtar/extra clarification is not needed here.

Brief Descriptor

It seems like most folks use this as a space for their role or position at CUNY/on the Commons. Perhaps "role at CUNY" is more clear. The sentence below the input field also helps clarify.

Thanks, Laurie. Marilyn and Scott, do you have any thoughts on this since you so often see that fallout of registration confusion?

I like all these changes. I might change this one:

A CUNY email address is required for registration. You may change your preferred email address after registering.

To:

A CUNY email address is required for registration, but once you are a member, you can switch to the email address you prefer.

I took a stab at consolidating all of this below. If the text from the current register page isn't here, it stays as-is. I think we want to avoid using "Role" twice in the Profile Details page, so I suggested changing Brief Descriptor to Brief Introduction, alongside the help sentence that clarifies.

Sign Up

A CUNY email address is required for registration. Once you are a member, you can switch to the email address you prefer.

The CUNY Academic Commons is currently available for use by CUNY faculty, staff, students, graduate alumni, postdocs, and (in special cases) non-CUNY members involved in CUNY projects.

Account Details

Username (required) — You will use this to log in. Your username will be publicly visible by all visitors. Commons members will also be able to use it to send quick notes (aka mentions) to you.

Email Address (required) — Please use your campus email address (e.g. name@brooklyn.cuny.edu), NOT the CUNYFirst web login (e.g. name@login.cuny.edu).

Password (required)

Profile Photo — Your profile photo will be used on your profile and throughout the site.

Profile Details

Your responses in the form fields below will be displayed on your Public Portfolio. Once you've logged in, you can change your visibility preferences under Settings. Only your name and college are required. You can always add, edit, or remove information at a later date.

Full Name (required)

Brief Introduction
A one-line summary of who you are and what you do at CUNY.

All this looks good. Maybe i would replace "A CUNY email address" with "A CUNY campus email address" in the 1st sentence, but it's not that important.

A suggestion (I mentioned at a meeting) to rename "Brief Descriptor" to "One-Line Bio" to help make sure people understand this must be short.

Another suggestion from another person was to also add a character limit. Neither was discussed.

I like "One-line bio"!

Here's the final copy. Boone how do we go about updating this?

Sign Up

A CUNY campus email address is required for registration. Once you are a member, you can switch to the email address you prefer.

The CUNY Academic Commons is currently available for use by CUNY faculty, staff, students, graduate alumni, postdocs, and (in special cases) non-CUNY members involved in CUNY projects.

Account Details

Username (required) — You will use this to log in. Your username will be publicly visible by all visitors. Commons members will also be able to use it to send quick notes (aka mentions) to you.

Email Address (required) — Please use your campus email address (e.g. name@brooklyn.cuny.edu), NOT the CUNYFirst web login (e.g. name@login.cuny.edu).

Password (required)

Profile Photo — Your profile photo will be used on your profile and throughout the site.

Profile Details

Your responses in the form fields below will be displayed on your Public Portfolio. Once you've logged in, you can change your visibility preferences under Settings. Only your name and college are required. You can always add, edit, or remove information at a later date.

Full Name (required)

One-Line Bio
A one-line summary of who you are and what you do at CUNY.

All looks good to me Boone, except adding this line under the line at the start of the page that begins "A CUNY campus email address..." --

The CUNY Academic Commons is currently available for use by CUNY faculty, staff, students, graduate alumni, postdocs, and (in special cases) non-CUNY members involved in CUNY projects.

Thanks, Colin. Added in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/54a848e0b794b5a070ee2f1eb210db58b2530c15