bCourses is Berkeley's official campus Learning Management System (LMS), using the open-source Canvas platform. This tool provides a resource for instructors and students to enrich the teaching and learning experience. bCourses is integrated with additional academic technology tools.
bCourses Project Sites support Berkeley courses requiring an online space beyond the standard bCourses course sites. Designed to assist instructors and course-based projects, these sites provide an academics-focused collaboration area.
Online Discussions allow students to participate in an asynchronous conversation with a group or the entire class. These include bCourses built-in discussion tool and integrated platform Ed Discussion.
Kaltura is a web-based video management platform that allows for the upload, editing, managing and sharing of videos and other media. Kaltura can be accessed from bCourses (Canvas).
Ally is a set of tools within bCourses that helps make course content more accessible and provides instructors with visual indicators gauging the accessibility of source files and assigns an accessibility score to each uploaded file.
Course Design Tools provides instructors with resources to develop pedagogically sound remote courses. This service includes the Core Template which uses bCourses’ built-in course construction and management tools.
BOA (Berkeley Online Advising) provides academic advisors unified student data from multiple campus services to access information that supports student success.
