By Tanya Roscorla, Center for Digital Education
More than 60 campuses and groups expressed interest in open software for academic communities. Now a team from the City University of New York (CUNY) Academic Commons has made it a reality. Universities and other organizations have access at no charge to the Commons in a Box software, which allows them to easily install and manage community sites for faculty, staff, administrators and students. It runs on WordPress and a plug-in for WordPress called BuddyPress. BuddyPress presents a high barrier of entry for many people, especially small university staff. When in-house developers built CUNY Academic Commons in 2009, they had to manually code interactions between the plug-ins.
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