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October 25, 2023

Campus-supported academic tools are rigorously vetted for accessibility, privacy, and security but feedback from Berkeley’s instructional community is essential to determine a tool’s usability, effectiveness, and suitability. To accomplish this, RTL needs volunteers to participate in testing new tools throughout the academic year. Participants then also have the opportunity to influence the selection of tools that align with the teaching and learning needs of our campus.

October 19, 2023

Please note: the change that this article describes has been rolled back as of 11/26/23. The current behavior is that Zoom alternative hosts do NOT become Kaltura co-hosts or co-collaborators. 

An update to the Zoom to Kaltura integration made by Kaltura in early October benefits many Zoom users who have wanted colleagues (co-instructors, GSI’s,staff, etc) to be able to manage the recording files copied to Kaltura via the integration. 

October 6, 2023

Review the October RTL Update for uypcoming events and resources as well as campus announcements.

October 2, 2023

Review the latest issue on equitable grading strategies.

September 11, 2023

Review this month's updates from RTL.

August 31, 2023

Review the latest issue on how to engage students throughout the semester

August 22, 2023

Review RTL's semester start newsletter for updates to support your teaching this fall.

August 21, 2023

Berkeley has several instructional tools that can be used for efficient attendance tracking. Review the key things to consider.

August 10, 2023

Review the latest updates from RTL including news on learning tools and upcoming opportunities for the instructional community.

August 7, 2023

In the realm of effective instruction, good audio capture is a key and often challenging requirement. Enter beamforming microphone technology, a transformative tool that simplifies and enhances the audio capturing process in a classroom.

August 3, 2023

In this week’s issue of Teaching(link is external), explore a variety of approaches to creating a syllabus your students may actually use and engage with throughout the course. Also, review all past issues on topics that may help prepare you for semester start.

July 27, 2023

July 21, 2023

Review the latest updates from RTL including news on learning tools and upcoming opportunities for the instructional community.

July 11, 2023

June 21, 2023

Review the latest updates from RTL and other campus partners in the June RTL Newsletter.

June 20, 2023

Join Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL) for an exciting series of workshops designed to prepare instructors for all modes of teaching this Fall!

May 16, 2023

May 1, 2023

On April 4th, Turnitin released an artificial intelligence writing detection feature intended to identify text generated by chatbot/text generators such as ChatGPT.

April 12, 2023

This week's Teaching@Berkeley issue centers on academic integrity.

April 5, 2023

Review the latest update from RTL featuring information on course evaluations, the classroom of the future, and more.