Commons In A Box 1.3.1 is now available! This maintenance release includes a number of plugin stability updates, as well as some styling and permissions fixes for the OpenLab package. For complete details, view the plugin changelog or visit the 1.3.1 milestone on our GitHub repository: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/commons-in-a-box/milestone/20?closed=1
Questions or comments? Head over to the CBOX forums https://commonsinabox.org/support-forums
Commons In A Box 1.3.0 is now available!
This major release includes compatibility with the latest WordPress and BuddyPress, as well as a host of other plugin updates.
On the OpenLab side, CBOX 1.3.0 introduces a number of new features, such as:
For complete details on the release, see the wordpress.org changelog or the GitHub milestone.
Update today from your WordPress Dashboard, or by downloading the plugin from https://wordpress.org/plugins/commons-in-a-box/.
Commons In A Box 1.2.4 is now available. This release is focused on compatibility with the latest versions of WordPress, and also includes a number of fixes to functionality in the OpenLab package.
Visit https://wordpress.org/plugins/commons-in-a-box/ to download the new version, or upgrade at Network Admin > Dashboard > Plugins.
Version 1.2.3 of Commons In A Box is now available! This release fixes a number of bugs, with a focus on the OpenLab package. Fixes include:
Update your Commons In A Box installation via your WordPress Dashboard, or download a copy from https://wordpress.org/plugins/commons-in-a-box/.
Commons In A Box 1.2.0 is now available!
This is a major feature release for the CBOX team. We’ve taken number of important features built for the City Tech OpenLab and made them available for all users of the CBOX OpenLab package. Noteworthy new tools include:
In addition to these new OpenLab features, we’ve fixed many bugs, and improved compatibility with the latest versions of WordPress and BuddyPress across OpenLab and Classic. See https://wordpress.org/plugins/commons-in-a-box/#developers for more details.
Upgrade to Commons In A Box 1.2.0 in your WordPress Dashboard, or download the plugin from https://wordpress.org/plugins/commons-in-a-box/
Commons In A Box 1.1.2 is now available! This maintenance release includes updates for a number of included plugins, along with the following package fixes:
To upgrade your installation, visit Dashboard > Plugins (via the Network Admin, if running Multisite) and click ‘Update’ under the row for Commons In A Box. Don’t forget to run the CBOX updater when prompted after the plugin update.
Questions? Visit our forums.
Commons In A Box 1.1.1 is available for immediate download! This maintenance release, our first since the OpenLab package was introduced in version 1.1.0, features improved compatibility with new versions of WP, BP, PHP; updates to CBOX plugins; and the following fixes:
Download the latest Commons In A Box from https://wordpress.org/plugins/commons-in-a-box/.
We’re pleased to announce that Commons In A Box 1.1.0 is now available.
Commons In A Box introduces the concept of CBOX “packages”, a mechanism for site owners to select, at the time of installation, the kind of community setup they’d like. As part of this release, we’re introducing the OpenLab package, a package focused on teaching and learning, based on the OpenLab at City Tech. For more information on the CBOX OpenLab package, see our announcement post, or our CBOX OpenLab documentation.
The set of plugins and theme previously known as Commons In A Box continues to be available as the Classic package.
Version 1.1.0 also contains accessibility improvements for the Classic theme; improved compatibility with updated versions of WordPress, BuddyPress, and PHP; and a number of plugin updates.
Visit our support forums with questions or comments.
The Commons In A Box team is delighted to announce the public release of Commons In A Box OpenLab, a free open-source software platform for teaching, learning, and collaboration.
Over the past two years, we have partnered with the OpenLab team at New York City College of Technology, CUNY (City Tech) to develop a teaching-focused version of Commons In A Box modeled on City Tech’s OpenLab, an open digital platform that has served more than 27,000 members of the City Tech community since its launch in Fall 2011.
With today’s release, Commons In A Box (CBOX) now includes a choice of two packages: CBOX Classic and CBOX OpenLab.
CBOX Classic, the original version of our software, provides a flexible platform designed for communities of all kinds. It powers sites for hundreds of groups and organizations worldwide, who use it to create social networks where members can collaborate on projects, build communities, publish research, and create repositories of knowledge.
The new package, CBOX OpenLab, is specifically designed to support teaching, learning, and collaboration. Unlike closed online teaching systems, it allows members to share their work openly with one another and the world. Like a lab, it provides a space where students, faculty, and staff can work together, experiment, and innovate.
We believe CBOX OpenLab provides a powerful and flexible open alternative to costly proprietary educational platforms, enabling faculty and staff members, departments, and entire institutions to create and customize community spaces for open learning.
The creation of CBOX OpenLab was made possible by generous funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Office of Digital Humanities. The project seeks to enhance humanities education – and public understanding of humanities education – by enabling the work of students, and faculty, and staff to be more visible and connected to the outside world. It also seeks to deepen engagement between the digital humanities and pedagogy by incorporating software (plugins) developed by digital humanities practitioners.
To learn more, read the official announcement and explore our newly-updated site, which provides extensive documentation, demo sites, and support forums where you can get help and advice. We look forward to hearing from you!
“Humanities Commons is a trusted, nonprofit network where humanities scholars can create a professional profile, discuss common interests, develop new publications, and share their work. The Humanities Commons network is open to anyone.
Humanities Commons is a project of the office of scholarly communication at the Modern Language Association. Its development was generously funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Humanities Commons is based on the open-source Commons-in-a-Box project of the City University of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center and is an expansion of the MLA’s MLA Commons, which launched in January 2013. The founding partner societies of Humanities Commons are the Association for Jewish Studies; the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies; and the College Art Association. Each society has its own Commons hub.
Humanities Commons was designed by scholarly societies in the humanities to serve the needs of humanists as they engage in teaching and research that benefit the larger community. Unlike other social and academic communities, Humanities Commons is open-access, open-source, and nonprofit. It is focused on providing a space to discuss, share, and store cutting-edge research and innovative pedagogy—not on generating profits from users’ intellectual and personal data.
The network also features an open-access repository, the Commons Open Repository Exchange. CORE allows users to preserve their research and increase its reach by sharing it across disciplinary, institutional, and geographic boundaries. Developed in partnership with Columbia University’s Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, CORE is underwritten by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Office of Digital Humanities.”
