Join the Commons, Join Our Class

If you don’t already have a Commons account you will need to register for one.

You must use your Brooklyn College (or another CUNY Campus) email. If you do not yet have access to this, make sure you’ve followed the steps here. If that doesn’t work, contact the Help Desk. The number/email is at the bottom of that linked page. You can still continue through most of each course module without being logged in as a site user, but you will need to get this solved as soon as possible.

Step One: Signing Up for the Academic Commons

Via Email Invitation to the Course

You should have received an email to join this course. Check your spam if you haven’t.

The first link in the email that you received will have a link to register for an account

or

sign up directly:

You can go to: https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/ to set up an account.

You will be asked to complete a registration that will ask you for the kind of details you would expect, including choosing a username and password.

While you must confirm your registration through your .cuny.edu email, you can change this later.

The Commons also asks that you include your (main) College affiliation.

Screen shot of the blank registration form

Once you’ve confirmed your account, you will be able to log in to the Commons either from the main Commons page or across any site on the Commons using the top black header toolbars in the right-hand corner.

If you are logged into the Commons, you can access a drop-down menu on the upper black toolbar where you logged in.

When you do so, you will see that you now have access to a drop-down menu from your login.

Take a moment to go to “My Profile” and add some details, such as a profile picture, if you wish.

Once you complete the next step and become a user of this site, you will be able to find it under “My Sites.” Or just return to the course site directly and log in from the top black toolbar: https://1707casdf24.commons.gc.cuny.edu

Step 2: Accept the Course Invite

Go back to the initial email invitation. There should be a second link to claim the invitation you were sent for the course. Click on it.

Look for the invite on the dropdown from the black tool bar (that you saw above) under “My Invites.”

Help! I don’t have the invite email and I don’t see it under “My invites.”

Solution: Email me the username you set up when you registered and I will send you a new invitation to the course.

Ok. I think I’m set up. How do I know?

Fantastic! If you’re all set up on the Commons, you should see a black header bar that will show that you are logged in.

AND

There should now be a “+New” link in the center of the black header. (Don’t click it yet, but if you see that option, you are ready to go on.)

NOTE: Even if you haven’t been able to finish this step fully, you can go on to learn about your first speech assignment, how it will be posted, and the following sections of the module and our additional technology tool: Hypothes.is. Come back to parts of this tutorial and to post your first introductory speech assignment once you have gotten set up in the class..

Below, you will also see an area on most pages to leave a comment if you have a question. Comments attached to pages in module are public. They are a good place to ask questions you think other people might have or have the answer to, or to start an open discussion. You’ll have a more formal assigned discussion at the end of the module.

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Go On to learn more about your first speech