News

Check out the latest issue of Teaching@Berkeley centered on student mental health and exam season. If you missed a past issue, visit the biweekly archive on the Center for Teaching and Learning website.

Review the latest updates and ongoing resources available to the Berkeley instructional community.

For this edition of "Behind the Scenes of a Classroom Refresh", we bring you 120 Latimer, which received a complete renovation over several months last year during Summer Sessions and the Fall 2022 semester.

A new biweekly centered on teaching and learning hot topics and resources hit Berkeley teaching community inboxes today.  Review the biweekly if you missed it and subscribe to future issues.

Review RTL's latest news and updates on resources for the instructional and research community.

Several improvements to the RTL accessibility portfolio are available for the spring 2023 semester.  These include updates to the Accessibility Basics online course site and the new features, Immersive Reader and WYSIWYG Instructor Feedback tool,  provided by Ally in bCourses.  

Review RTL's January special event newsletter with workshops and opportunities that begin on January 9. All events are open to UC Berkeley's instructional community.

Review RTL's end of semester update with resources that will help prepare you for the spring semester.

Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL) will be operating on modified schedules for campus curtailment during the winter break, Friday, December 23 through Monday, January 2. See details below. Emails and requests received during this time will be answered when the campus reopens on January 3, 2023.

We are happy to announce a new batch of features and fixes for the SuiteC collaboration tools:

Review recommendations from the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) intended to assist instructors in supporting undergraduate students’ learning in the event of instructional disruptions.

Review RTL's latest newsletter on resources and opportunities for the instructional and research community.

Changes have been made to the end-of-term teaching evaluations which were endorsed at the end of the 2021-22 academic year by the Divisional Council (DIVCO) of the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate.

Dr. Jenae Cohn has been announced as the new Executive Director for the Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL) within Research, Teaching & Learning (RTL). As Executive Director, Jenae will work closely with both Shawna Dark, Chief Academic Technology Officer & Assistant Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, and Professor Glynda Hull, Faculty Director for CTL. Jenae’s portfolio includes:

We’ve recently received information that Piazza Technologies has reached out to many of you directly regarding your instructional use of their product and informing you that their product is now accessible to students with disabilities. Unfortunately, Piazza did not inform us about these developments so we have not verified that their recent release meets the UC accessibility requirements. In addition, Piazza has not been recently reviewed with regards to data security and privacy.

Review the August newsletter for the latest on resources and opportunities and don't forget to review the current workshops bring offered by RTL in the special August Events Newsletter.