Academic Technology & Tools
Overview
Review academic tools and technology available at Berkeley and strategies centered on when to use them.
I want to... | Technology | Video Tutorials | Text documentation + Additional Notes |
| Review tips and academic technology for teaching large lecture courses |
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Start with a template that will make my bCourses site easy to use and accessible |
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Check that my bCourses site is fully accessible and easily make changes where needed | |||
Communicate and share files and documents with my class |
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Create asynchronous discussions with peer-to-peer interactions and self-reflection | |||
Create quizzes, exams, and surveys Use bCourses to create customized quiz questions using formulas and question banks Integrate bCourses with Gradescope |
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Create homework for the entire class or by section Allow students to upload various types of files to complete an assignment Allow students to peer review each other’s work Enable additional more robust peer review functionality in bCourses for multiple different assignment types |
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Create a space for peer collaboration and group assignments on files |
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Check student writing against online sources and flag potential overlap | |||
Review reporting of student activity and participation Know when to intervene with a struggling student |
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Record voice-over presentation software and/or screencast for my lecture | |||
Share my recordings with my class | Depending on the recordings’ format and location:
(If your recordings are from Course Capture, make sure to follow the Course Capture instructions provided.) | ||
Engage students in class with polls and real-time feedback | |||
Give my students remote access to specialized software | |||
Offer shared coding/data environments for teaching with Jupyter notebooks | |||
Download software (licensed by Berkeley) for my home or work computer |