Open Educational Resources (OER)

Blackboard is the CUNY-wide/system-wide LMS (for all MEC courses).

Platform for inter-active creating and commenting for video & audio.

A tool for enhancing course presentations with Polls, Q and A, and more.

CUNY Manifold serves as a free publishing platform for the CUNY community, where you can create projects to house either your own scholarship or custom classroom versions of texts and textbooks that are openly licensed or in the public domain. Group annotation of texts is a key feature.

CUNY Academic Commons is designed to support faculty initiatives and build community through the use(s) of technology in teaching and learning. It is a Wordpress installation, which is free, open source software. Faculty at CUNY can create an account on the Academic Commons in order to create a website.

Open Author is a free and open site/course creator platform that is on the OpenEd CUNY portal.

CBOX OpenLab is specifically designed for teaching, learning, and collaboration, using features and functionality from The OpenLab at City Tech, and incorporating software developed by digital humanities practitioners. It provides a powerful and flexible open alternative to costly proprietary educational platforms, allowing faculty and staff members, departments, and entire institutions to create commons spaces for open learning.

A free and open site/course creator platform. You will need to create a free account to use the platform.