Review updates, resources, and opportunities for Berkeley's instructional and research community: April 2022 newsletter
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April 22, 2022
April 21, 2022
A Campus-wide Emergency alert has been issued.Campus police continue to investigate this credible campus-wide threat. If you are not on campus, please stay away from the area. Facilities Services is locking buildings on campus. If you are in a building, please continue to stay where you are and move away from doors and windows. If you are not in a building, please leave the campus immediately.
All campus services are closed until further notice (e.g. libraries, dining, parking garages).
March 17, 2022
The Academic Senate’s Committee on Teaching cordially invites you to the 62nd Annual Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA), a ceremony and reception to honor five faculty recognized this year for their inspiring and transformational teaching. This year’s ceremony will also honor the accomplishments of the four DTA recipients from 2020, whom the campus was unable to honor in 2020 with a ceremony due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Have you ever wondered what it takes to replace a projector 25 feet above the ground or what goes into refreshing classroom technology at UC Berkeley? If the answer is yes, then here is a glimpse into this process as our engineers, Vince Barma, Nich Caldwell, and Steve Johnson, refreshed 100 Lewis over the Winter Break in December 2021 - January 2022.
February 18, 2022
Review RTL's resources and opportunities for supporting teaching, learning, and research.
January 28, 2022
Updated Guidance as of February 2, 2022:
Thanks to the hard work and collaboration between our hardware vendor and the classroom technology services team, a workaround has been implemented in all of our video conference capable rooms and Monterey (macOS 12) devices can now connect to our classroom cameras in our general assignment classrooms for use in Zoom or other video conferencing platforms.
January 14, 2022
Review this month's RTL newsletter for up-to-date resources, workshop opportunities, and quick support options.
January 10, 2022
Review upcoming events and workshops that will help you prepare for the spring semester.
December 2, 2021
Review RTL's upcoming events and training opportunities as well as just in time information as we near the end of the semester.
November 19, 2021
Review our latest instructional support newsletter with the latest updates and resources available to the campus community.
Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL) services will be operating on modified schedules for campus curtailment during the winter break, Thursday, December 23 through Monday, January 3. See details below. Emails and requests received during this time will be answered when the campus reopens on January 3, 2022.
October 22, 2021
What a whirlwind semester start. We want to thank all of you, the instructors that support the teaching and learning mission of the campus, for understanding that technology does not always work and for being partners in figuring out solutions to keep instruction going when faced with technical challenges.
September 23, 2021
Review our latest instructional support newsletter with the latest updates and resources available to the campus community.
September 20, 2021
To keep our tightly scheduled 200+ classrooms operational and updated in-semester, our dedicated engineering team turns to evenings and nights to do some of their best work when the rooms are empty. In addition to addressing more complex issues, such as replacing a bad projector, that requires an empty classroom, we also focus on upgrading smaller, analog-only classrooms during the semester to bring them into the digital world with the following updates:
August 25, 2021
Visit the Academic Innovation Studio (AIS) in Dwinelle 117 (Level D), 9am - 4pm, to get connected with support for RTL services starting August 18. All workshops will continue to be offered virtually in the near future. Check out RTL's Quick Support Options available to the campus instructional and research community.
August 13, 2021
Review our latest instructional support newsletter with the latest updates and resources available to the campus community.
August 10, 2021
Research, Teaching, and Learning (RTL) is offering several programs and support services for faculty as they prepare for the Fall semester.
July 13, 2021
Review our instruction/research support newsletter with the latest updates and resources available to the campus community.
June 7, 2021
Thanks to generous support from campus and departmental leadership, RTL has received funding to accelerate our classroom refresh, add video cameras, and add video conferencing capabilities to 37 classrooms this summer.
April 26, 2021
In-between Spring and Summer instruction, we will upgrade the Turnitin academic integrity integration available inside bCourses: On May 23rd, we will enable a new Turnitin integration, and turn off the legacy integration.
Turnitin Similarity Reports generated before 5/23/21 will no longer be accessible by instructors in bCourses after that date.