Creating a Journal on Manifold
Date: Monday, March 2, 2026
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM
Registration link: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/N2c4aA9tQCyVLEdujiz1rA

Description: Looking for a platform to publish a digital student journal, department newsletter, or to bring an existing journal online? Manifold offers a flexible environment for digital publishing. This workshop will walk participants through the process of creating a journal and explore how the platform can support key aspects of journal operations, including peer review and reader engagement.

Drop-In Manifold Office Hours – Wednesdays 

Zoom Link: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/j/88464191378?pwd=1HUvwm6WyRQ9ZKlRKjVbN27OId5bVE.1

Join Manifold for bi-weekly drop-in office hours this spring! Whether you’re starting a new digital project, need expert guidance to overcome roadblocks in an existing project, or simply want to ask a question, the CUNY Manifold Team will be on hand to provide support and answer your questions.

Teaching with Social Annotations on Manifold
Date: Thursday, March 5, 2026
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 PM
Registration link: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/PaoULHIVScerv_Eu4Hamxw

Social annotation can be a great way to “open up” a text: to make it a learning object for scrutiny, interpretation, and enrichment. Teaching with social annotation fosters opportunities for instructors and students to think, read, and learn together in and beyond the classroom. With Manifold’s annotation tool and reading groups, you can highlight, annotate, and discuss a text, and make your annotations public, private, or visible only to a group.

In this workshop, the Manifold team will walk you through these social annotation features and annotate with you. Featuring examples from Fire!!, the one edition Harlem Renaissance literary magazine. Join Manifold as they explore a rich text for collaborative reading, historical inquiry, and layered interpretation through social annotation.

Please set up a reader account on CUNY Manifold before the session.

Manifold March Community Event 
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2026
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 PM
Location: CUNY Graduate Center, 5th floor, Room 5307

At the advent of the centennial of Fire!!: A Quarterly Devoted to the Younger Negro Artists—the trailblazing 1926 magazine created by a new generation of Black artists—Manifold invites you to step into the world of the Harlem Renaissance. Though only one issue was published, Fire!! broke new ground by boldly exploring sexuality, color prejudice, and Black vernacular life, leaving an influence that far outlasted its brief existence.

Manifold Graduate Fellow Cortnie Belser (PhD Student in Urban Education) will share her experience creating an interactive digital edition of Fire!! on Manifold, CUNY’s open-source scholarly publishing platform, and discuss the importance of raising the visibility of these artists and strengthening the knowledge networks that connect their legacy to the present.

Note: These community events are open to all CUNY students, staff, and faculty. If you’re not based at the Graduate Center, you’ll need to present a current ID at the security desk to enter the building.

Introduction to Manifold
Date: Thursday, March 26, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Registration link: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/HIfA5jXxQ9CSGSMbEkMkjQ

Please join Manifold for a 1.5-hour Introduction to Manifold workshop. In the first part of the workshop they will provide an overview of the Manifold digital publishing platform and explore how it is being used at CUNY to create beautiful, dynamic, multimedia digital projects and Open Educational Resources (OER) such as custom versions of public domain texts, multi-text course readers, class projects, and journals.

In the second part of the workshop participants will create their own Manifold Project, learn how to customize the layout of their Project, add Texts and Resources, and use Manifold’s built-in Social Annotation. They will provide all the digital materials needed to create a Manifold Project but participants are welcome to use their own EPUBS, Word (.docx) files, Google docs, images, YouTube videos, etc.

No prior experience with digital publishing is required.

A Manifold Project Creator role is required for the second part of this workshop.
Sign up for a Manifold Reader account first and then request to change your role to Project Creator at least one day before the workshop.