Past events

Past Events

Past Events from RTL + Across Campus

Inclusive Mentoring Practices

November 13, 2024 - 10:00-11:00 AM Location: 117 Dwinelle Hall (Academic Innovation Studio) Intended Audience: Advisors, Advisor Support Staff, Academic Support Staff, Faculty, Graduate Student Instructors, Instructors

Are you looking to enhance your mentoring skills and make a lasting impact on your students? Join us for an engaging session where you will discover how to cultivate productive mentoring relationships that empower mentees and expand their mentoring networks.

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Rehearsing an Active Learning Activity

November 5, 2024 - 2:00-3:00 PM Location: 117 Dwinelle Hall (Academic Innovation Studio) Intended Audience: Academic Support Staff, Faculty, Graduate Student Instructors, Instructors

Sometimes, active learning activities don’t play out the way we expect. Scholars of instructional development believe that practicing these approaches with colleagues can help us better prepare to use active learning with students. In this practice-basedactivity, you will have a chance to engage in an active...

Collaboration and Peer Support: Introduction to Ed Discussion

October 9, 2024 - 2:00-2:45 PM Location: This is an online event. Register to receive the Zoom link and calendar invitation Intended Audience: Academic Support Staff, Faculty, Graduate Student Instructors, Instructors

Discover how Ed Discussion can boost student participation in your classes through this live session. You'll learn to set up and manage online discussions effectively, using features like customizable categories and thread templates...

Faculty Perspectives on Adapting to Active Learning

October 1, 2024 - 2:00-3:00 PM Location: This is an online event. Register to receive the Zoom link and calendar invitation Intended Audience: Academic Support Staff, Faculty, Graduate Student Instructors, Instructors

Join us for a dynamic discussion featuring several of our own faculty members who have successfully integrated active learning strategies into their classrooms. Each panelist will share their unique approach to active learning...

Spark Talk: Rethinking Our Content Coverage Goals

September 24, 2024 - 10:00-10:30 AM Location: This is an online event. Register to receive the Zoom link and calendar invitation Intended Audience: Academic Support Staff, Faculty, Graduate Student Instructors, Instructors

Ever feel like your course has to “do too much”? Want to explore course redesign, but feeling constrained by the sheer amount of material you need to get through? Let’s explore content coverage and how it relates to (and perhaps...

Crafting Equitable Assessments with Every* Student in Mind

September 16, 2024 - 2:00-3:00 PM Location: 117 Dwinelle Hall (Academic Innovation Studio) Intended Audience: Academic Support Staff, Faculty, Graduate Student Instructors, Instructors

Rethinking traditional assessments isn't just about changing formats—it's about embracing diverse approaches that accommodate different skills and learning styles. This session explores how to design authentic and scaffold assessments that allow space for practice, feedback, and revision. We'll also discuss how to make...

Spark Talk: Exploring Equity via Metacognitive Practice

September 10, 2024 - 10:00-10:30 AM Location: This is an online event. Register to receive the Zoom link and calendar invitation Intended Audience: Academic Support Staff, Faculty, Graduate Student Instructors, Instructors

Do you dread when midterms roll around in your course? Wondering how you can best support students during the challenging exam period? Let’s explore metacognition and how this skill can support the diversity...

Assignments and Grading: Build Your Gradebook in bCourses

September 9, 2024 - 10:00-11:00 AM Location: This is an online event. Register to receive the Zoom link and calendar invitation Intended Audience: Academic Support Staff, Faculty, Graduate Student Instructors, Instructors

This session will guide you through effectively setting up and managing your Gradebook—from weighting grades to configuring advanced settings like Grade Posting Policy. You’ll learn how to create and manage Assignment Groups, apply grading...

Using Peerceptiv Peer Review to Increase Collaboration and Engagement

September 4, 2024 - 10:00-10:45 AM Location: This is an online event. Register to receive the Zoom link and calendar invitation Intended Audience: Academic Support Staff, Faculty, Graduate Student Instructors, Instructors

Peerceptiv is a peer collaboration tool designed to enhance student engagement by facilitating peer review and team member evaluation assignments and is now available for all UC Berkeley classes as part of a pilot. Through Peerceptiv,...

RTL Open House

The campus instructional community is invited to RTL's Open House on September 3!

Assignments and Grading: Build Your Gradebook in bCourses

August 27, 2024 - 2:00-3:00 PM Location: This is an online event. Register to receive the Zoom link and calendar invitation Intended Audience: Academic Support Staff, Faculty, Graduate Student Instructors, Instructors

This session will guide you through effectively setting up and managing your Gradebook—from weighting grades to configuring advanced settings like Grade Posting Policy. You’ll learn how to create and manage Assignment Groups, apply...

Setting the Stage: Fostering Student Engagement Throughout the Semester

August 26, 2024 - 2:00-2:45 PM Location: This is an online event. Register to receive the Zoom link and calendar invitation Intended Audience: Academic Support Staff, Faculty, Graduate Student Instructors, Instructors

Kick off the semester with a dynamic approach to teaching by joining us for 'Setting the Stage for Student Engagement This Semester.' This workshop is designed to empower you with the tools and strategies...

Organizing Your Class on bCourses Using the "Core Template"

August 26, 2024 - 10:00-11:00 AM Location: This is an online event. Register to receive the Zoom link and calendar invitation Intended Audience: Academic Support Staff, Faculty, Graduate Student Instructors, Instructors

Designing a student-friendly bCourse course can be time-consuming and overwhelming, and it may seem easier to think of bCourses as a file repository shared with students. However, creating a bCourses site that is organized...

Teaching Inclusively From Day One in Small Classes

August 23, 2024 - 10:30-11:30 AM Location: This is an online event. Register to receive the Zoom link and calendar invitation Intended Audience: Academic Support Staff, Faculty, Graduate Student Instructors, Instructors

In this workshop, we will focus on practical strategies for creating an inclusive learning environment from the start of your course, specifically designed for smaller classes with...

Getting Started with Polling Tools: iClicker and Poll Everywhere

August 20 - 10:00-11:00 AM Location: This is an online event. Register to receive the Zoom link and calendar invitation Intended Audience: Academic Support Staff, Faculty, Graduate Student Instructors, Instructors

Join this live session as we review the fundamentals of Berkeley-sponsored polling tools—iClicker Cloud and Poll Everywhere. You will learn the differences between the two platforms, as well as how to set up...

Using Peerceptiv Peer Review to Increase Collaboration and Engagement

August 19, 2024 - 10:00-10:45 AM Location: This is an online event. Register to receive the Zoom link and calendar invitation Intended Audience: Academic Support Staff, Faculty, Graduate Student Instructors, Instructors

Peerceptiv is a peer collaboration tool designed to enhance student engagement by facilitating peer review and team...

Upcoming Events

Past Events: Spring 2024 and Before

January 9, 2023, 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Hosted by
Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL)
This virtual workshop will provide an overview of how to access and use the DLS Core Template to create an effective and engaging bCourses site for courses in any modality.
November 8, 2022, 11:00am to 12:30pm
Hosted by
UC Berkeley Library
This training will help you navigate the copyright, fair use, and usage rights of including third-party content in your digital project.
October 25, 2022, 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Hosted by
Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL), Research IT
Learn more about Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap), a secure web-based application to support online and offline data collection for research studies and operations across a variety of disciplines.
October 25, 2022, 11:00am to 12:00pm
Hosted by
UC Berkeley Library
We'll look at choices you can make at the beginning of project development to influence sustainability, best practices for documentation and asset management, and how to sunset your project in a way that ensures long-term access for future researchers.
October 13, 2022, 11:00am to 12:30pm
Hosted by
UC Berkeley Library
This short workshop will introduce key mapping terms and concepts and give an overview of popular platforms used to create web maps.
October 13, 2022, 10:00am to 1:30pm
Hosted by
Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL)
Join RTL for a Fall Refresh in the AIS on Thursday, October 13! Visit us in Dwinelle 117 (Level D) from 10:00 a.m - 1:30 p.m. for a series of sessions designed to help refresh your mind and spirit. Light refreshments and herbal tea will be provided. All sessions EXCEPT the 12:00 - 12:45 session...
October 12, 2022, 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Hosted by
Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL)
Join Research IT for an introductory training session on using Savio, the campus Linux high-performance computing cluster.
October 3, 2022, 11:00am to 12:30pm
Hosted by
UC Berkeley Library
In this workshop, we'll take a look at use cases for common open-source web platforms WordPress, Drupal, Omeka, and Scalar, and we'll talk about hosting, storage, and asset management.
September 29, 2022, 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Hosted by
Research IT
Join us on the last Thursday of each month for the UC Berkeley Cloud Computing Meetup, aimed at bringing together students, researchers, faculty, IT staff and the wider local community to learn, share and discuss our work in designing and operating services built on cloud computing architectures...
September 20, 2022, 11:00am to 12:30pm
Hosted by
UC Berkeley Library
Learn why and how to use Pressbooks for publishing your original books or course materials.
September 1, 2022, 9:00am to September 2, 2022, 4:00pm
Hosted by
Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL)
NEW for Fall ‘22! The Learning Environments and Tools team (LET) will be offering in-person consultations on bCourses, Ally, Kaltura, Gradescope, and Student Response Systems (Poll Everywhere and iClicker Cloud) in the Academic Innovation Studio on weekdays during business hours between Monday, 8/...
August 23, 2022, 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Hosted by
Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL)
Join this workshop for an introduction to (or refresher on) the tech available in General Assignment classrooms on campus.
August 22, 2022, 1:00pm to 4:00pm
You are warmly invited to the RTL Open House event that is taking place on Monday, August 22nd from 1pm-4pm in Academic Innovation Studio (Dwinelle 117). This is a special event for instructors and GSIs to learn more about our services and resources. Feel free to stop in anytime with questions. We...
August 19, 2022, 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Hosted by
Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL)
Join this workshop for an introduction to (or refresher on) the tech available in General Assignment classrooms on campus.
August 19, 2022, 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Hosted by
Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL)
This virtual workshop will provide an overview of how to access and use the DLS Core Template to create an effective and engaging bCourses site for courses in any modality.
August 19, 2022, 10:00am to 11:00am
Hosted by
Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL)
Learn best practices to improve your online teaching from the experts!
August 18, 2022, 9:00am to 5:00pm
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Oliver O’Reilly warmly invites all UC Berkeley faculty to attend a special instructional Zoom event designed to convey updates, resources, and inspiration for teaching this coming semester. The program features 50-minute sessions on timely topics—you may...
August 17, 2022, 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Hosted by
Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL)
Learn how to engage your students using iClicker's cloud-based software, provided at no cost to instructors and students.
August 17, 2022, 11:00am to 11:30pm
Hosted by
Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL)
This thirty-minute workshop will focus on using Gradescope to transform your multiple choice assessments with Gradescope Bubble Sheets. We'll show you how to indicate the correct responses for each question ahead of time allowing Gradescope to automatically grade all student submissions for you as...
August 16, 2022, 11:00am to 12:00pm
Hosted by
Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL)
Learn how to use Gradescope in face-to-face classes with handwritten exams and quizzes and multiple choice assessments
August 16, 2022, 10:00am to 11:00am
Hosted by
Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL)
Join us for an overview of the bCourses learning management system (LMS) and its native (built-in) features.
August 15, 2022, 11:00am to 12:15pm
Hosted by
Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL)
How can you transform your course to center student learning? When designing a new course or revising an existing one, a learner-centered approach calls for instructors to examine the relationship between learning objectives, assessments, and activities. In this interactive workshop, participants...
August 15, 2022, 10:00am to 11:00am
Hosted by
Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL)
Learn how to use Gradescope in online and hybrid classes classes with handwritten exams and quizzes and fully online assignments.
August 11, 2022, 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Ed Discussion is a next-gen class Q&A platform that helps scale class communication in a beautiful and intuitive interface, and can be accessed through seamless integration with bCourses or used standalone. Ed believes student privacy is paramount and does not share data with third parties, has...
August 11, 2022, 11:00am to 12:00pm
Hosted by
Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL)
Join us for a basic overview of key features of this campus-supported web-based video management platform.