Teaching and Learning

Ally in bCourses

August 10, 2022, 10:00am

Attend this workshop to learn how to improve the accessibility of your bCourses content so students can better access and convert pages and materials into multiple formats. During the workshop, exciting new features will be demonstrated, along with strategies to increase your accessibility scores within bCourses.

Ally is an integrated accessibility tool in bCourses that provides:

Alternative formats of instructor-uploaded digital course content, which optimize compatibility with mobile devices, screen readers, and other assistive...

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Getting Started with Kaltura

January 11, 2023, 2:00pm

Kaltura is the campus-supported web-based video management platform, accessed from bCourses, that allows UC Berkeley instructors, students, and staff to upload, edit, manage, and share videos and other media.

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College Writing in the Age of AI

March 10, 2023, 1:00pm

Join a conversation with the Center for Teaching and Learning and instructors from the College Writing Program focused on the potential impact of generative AI programs such as ChatGPT on writing assignments and how to address it.

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Back Together: What Did We Learn that We Don’t Want to Lose?

September 1, 2021, 12:00pm

What revelations have teaching, learning and living during the pandemic “cracked open” for you? What is visible now that was not before? What is the role of grief in the classroom and in our campus lives?

Please join the Teaching in Troubled Times community on for a reflective discussion on our pedagogies in an era of trauma, fear, and resilience. Our goal is to focus our attention on the dilemmas and ambivalences that have been laid bare by the pandemic. Without providing quick fixes, we plan to share opportunities to shift our thinking, experiment with new methods and practice/try...

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Build Your Gradebook in bCourses

January 9, 2024, 2:00pm

Picture of Peter Heckel Join this workshop to discover the ins and outs of setting up your Gradebook in bCourses. We'll guide you through weighting grades, dropping the lowest scores, and various other techniques to make sure Canvas calculates your grades exactly as you intend.