Teaching and Learning Center

Before creating a course site, you must create an academic commons account. These steps are identical for everyone and can be shared with your students when they create portfolio sites. 

 
  1. Go to the CUNY Academic Commons website
  2. Select “Create Account” or “Register” on the top right of the home page.
  3. Username must be at least 4 characters, only lowercase letters and numbers
  4. Email address must be a CUNY email address

Once you have created your account you can begin creating your course site.

  1. Select “Login” on the top right of the home page.
  2. Log in using your CUNY email address or username.
  3. Hover over drop down list under your name in the top right corner of the page; hover over “My Sites”; select “Create a Site.”
  4. You will see three options. For now, select the middle option: “Create a Site.”

 

You will be redirected to a new page with a form to fill out for site creation.

  1. The site domain name must be fifteen characters or less and contain no spaces, special characters, or capital letters (this is your website URL)
  2. The site title can be changed later, but it is suggested to use the name of your course.
  3. Fill in campus and primary purpose.
  4. The default license is Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International. Keep this, unless you have a specific reason not to.
  5. If you are creating an OER site, you will probably want to make your site open to the public (you can password protect individual pages later if you are not sure of copyright or if you want to create private discussion pages)
  6. If you are importing a site, you must select the Default Template. If you don’t, some of the files will not upload.
  7. If you are creating a class website for your course from scratch, you can select either the Teaching Template or the default Template.
  8. Click the “create a site” button at the bottom of the page. You will be redirect to a page confirming your site has been created. 

Creating a Site

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