Teaching and Learning

Classroom Essentials (5/3)

May 3, 2022, 2:00pm
This workshop is intended for instructors that are teaching in one of UC Berkeley's General Assignment Classrooms.

(Re)Designing Your Course Using a Learner-Centered Approach

August 15, 2022, 11:00am

How can you transform your course to center student learning? When designing a new course or revising an existing one, a learner-centered approach calls for instructors to examine the relationship between learning objectives, assessments, and activities. In this interactive workshop, participants will explore strategies for aligning these components to help students focus their learning on what matters most in your course and to ensure the accuracy of your assessments.

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Strategies for Assessing Student Learning in Remote Courses

June 21, 2021, 1:00pm
In this interactive workshop, participants will engage with example strategies for implementing frequent, low-stakes assessments into their course designs and discuss how to effectively gauge student learning over time.

Get Started with Gradescope (8/9)

August 9, 2021, 10:00am
This workshop will offer guidance on delivery of assignments that are paper-based, fully online, or a combination of the two.

Designing Quizzes for Academic Integrity (1/19)

January 19, 2022, 3:30pm
In this interactive workshop, participants will discuss common motivations for academic dishonesty and what the research says about how quizzes can help mitigate them.

Introduction to Ed Discussion

August 9, 2022, 3:00pm

Ed Discussion is a next-gen class Q&A platform that helps scale class communication in a beautiful and intuitive interface, and can be accessed through seamless integration with bCourses or used standalone. Ed believes student privacy is paramount and does not share data with third parties, has no advertising, and no annoyances.

In this virtual workshop, an Ed Discussion expert will provide an overview of supported features, including customizable thread categories and subcategories, anonymous posting, private posts among instructors and TAs, image annotation, LaTeX equations,...

bCourses Basics & Best Practices for GSIs

January 11, 2023, 1:00pm
This virtual event will provide an overview of bCourses and its native (built-in) features and will offer a practical workflow for basic site setup and adding and editing content.

Zoom to the Next Level (8/20)

August 20, 2021, 11:00am
Building off of our "Getting Started with Zoom" workshop, "Zoom to the Next Level" explores what we learned using Zoom during our first year in the cloud and the improvements that will be available in the Summer.

bCourses (Canvas) Basics: Teaching with bCourses Survival Guide

August 16, 2023, 2:00pm
Join us for an introductory workshop on bCourses (Canvas) and discover its essential features such as Announcements, Pages, Modules, Assignments, Quizzes, and Discussions, and learn how to navigate them with ease.

Preparing for Spring 2022 Instruction

January 12, 2022, 10:00am
Getting ready to teach this upcoming semester? Join us to learn about tools and resources to help you prepare for spring 2022 instruction.