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Course Design Tools provide 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 including Pages, Modules, Discussions, Assignments, and Quizzes. The Core Template offers a consistent organization founded in best practices in remote instruction pedagogy that ensures students can easily access materials and engage with the course without the need for instructors to learn any additional tools.

Classroom Technology Services & Support is the UC Berkeley General Assignment Classroom (GAC) AV support team. CTS provides real-time support to instructors teaching in our classrooms as well as training and consultations to prepare instructors to teach in different modalities.

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.

Instructional Computer Facilities offer UC Berkeley instructors as well as campus and local groups computer classrooms that can be scheduled for a semester or as needed for computer/software-based instruction and workshops.

Course Evaluations at Berkeley offers departments the opportunity to coordinate course evaluations through a customizable online system with easy management and reporting. This campus-provided common-good service is managed by RTL and is available to departments who have opted into the service.

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.

Berkeley's Course Capture service offers instructors lecture recording services for their courses. Integrated with bCourses, recorded courses are intended to enhance the learning experience by providing a review tool for students.

Berkeley’s Active Learning classrooms (ALC) are teaching and learning spaces in the general assignment classroom pool that allow the instructor to customize the physical learning environment to meet pedagogical needs.

Classroom Technology Services provides Zoom for Instruction workshops, consultations and other support for Berkeley instructors using Zoom.

Instructional Equipment Checkout provides instructors additional technology beyond the standard equipment in General Assignment and department classrooms across UC Berkeley.