News

Review semester start resources and opportunities in RTL's January Update.

Have you ever wished that you could automatically send a message to students as soon as they enroll in your course? The bCourses Welcome Email feature is designed to do exactly this! While you can send an announcement at any time, students who enroll later might miss it. The Welcome Email is designed to solve this problem.

Review workshops and events brought to you by UE and RTL to support instruction this spring semester.

Be prepared for some minor changes to the Kaltura integration with bCourses as we have upgraded, largely for security reasons. More specifically, we have upgraded from LTI 1.1 to 1.3. To learn more, see "Why Platforms and Tools Should Adopt LTI 1.3".

Review the latest RTL Update that includes event listings and resources that will help you prepare for spring instruction.

In preparation for the Spring 2024 term, we will be making an updated Zoom-bCourses integration available to all instructors. The newer integration is actively supported by Zoom and receives regular feature improvements. Read about the new features

Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL) will be operating on modified schedules for campus curtailment during the winter break, Monday, December 25 through Tuesday, January 2. Emails and requests received during this time will be answered when the campus reopens on January 3, 2024. The full curtailment schedule and further details are listed below.

Winter Holiday & Curtailment

• Monday, Dec. 25, 2023: Administrative & Academic Holiday

For this edition of "Behind the Scenes of a Classroom Refresh", we bring you 177 Stanley, which received a major technology update in July 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.

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. 

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

Review the latest issue on equitable grading strategies.

Review this month's updates from RTL.

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

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

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

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.