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The Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching cordially invites you to the 62nd Annual Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA), a ceremony and reception to honor five faculty recognized this year for their inspiring and transformational teaching. This year’s ceremony will also honor the accomplishments of the four DTA recipients from 2020, whom the campus was unable to honor in 2020 with a ceremony due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Review RTL's resources and opportunities for supporting teaching, learning, and research.

Updated Guidance as of February 2, 2022:
Thanks to the hard work and collaboration between our hardware vendor and the classroom technology services team, a workaround has been implemented in all of our video conference capable rooms and Monterey (macOS 12) devices can now connect to our classroom cameras in our general assignment classrooms for use in Zoom or other video conferencing platforms.

Review this month's RTL newsletter for up-to-date resources, workshop opportunities, and quick support options.

Review upcoming events and workshops that will help you prepare for the spring semester.

Review RTL's upcoming events and training opportunities as well as just in time information as we near the end of the semester.

What a whirlwind semester start. We want to thank all of you, the instructors that support the teaching and learning mission of the campus, for understanding that technology does not always work and for being partners in figuring out solutions to keep instruction going when faced with technical challenges.

Review our latest instructional support newsletter with the latest updates and resources available to the campus community.

To keep our tightly scheduled 200+ classrooms operational and updated in-semester, our dedicated engineering team turns to evenings and nights to do some of their best work when the rooms are empty. In addition to addressing more complex issues, such as replacing a bad projector, that requires an empty classroom, we also focus on upgrading smaller, analog-only classrooms during the semester to bring them into the digital world with the following updates:

Visit the Academic Innovation Studio (AIS) in Dwinelle 117 (Level D), 9am - 4pm, to get connected with support for RTL services starting August 18. All workshops will continue to be offered virtually in the near future. Check out RTL's Quick Support Options available to the campus instructional and research community.

Review our latest instructional support newsletter with the latest updates and resources available to the campus community.

Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL) is offering several programs and support services for faculty as they prepare for the Fall semester.

Review our instruction/research support newsletter with the latest updates and resources available to the campus community.

Thanks to generous support from campus and departmental leadership, RTL has received funding to accelerate our classroom refresh, add video cameras, and add video conferencing capabilities to 37 classrooms this summer.

In-between Spring and Summer instruction, we will upgrade the Turnitin academic integrity integration available inside bCourses: On May 23rd, we will enable a new Turnitin integration, and turn off the legacy integration. 

Turnitin Similarity Reports generated before 5/23/21 will no longer be accessible by instructors in bCourses after that date.

Review events, announcements, and resources to support Berkeley's research and instructional community: March 2021 Newsletter 

RTL will be operating on modified schedules Monday, March 22 through Friday, March 26 during the academic spring break week. Emails and requests received during this time will be answered in the order in which they were received on Monday, March 29. Updates about system outages and maintenance will be available on the System Status page(link is external)and as bCourses announcements.

The Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching is pleased to announce 42 individual and team awardees for the UC Berkeley’s Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times award.