Teaching and Learning

Enhance Classroom Engagement with iClicker Cloud

August 21, 2023, 1:00pm
Join us for an interactive workshop on enhancing student participation using iClicker Cloud. Learn efficient methods for attendance, techniques for real-time interactive polling and steps to ensure smooth student engagement.

Poll Everywhere Presenter Training (1/18)

January 18, 2022, 10:00am
In this workshop, you will learn how to create activities including word cloud, multiple-choice, and open-ended questions, as well as how to add Poll Everywhere to bCourses.

Intro to iClicker Cloud

September 15, 2023, 10:30am
Join us for a workshop on iClicker Cloud, the tool that transforms your slides into instant polls, eliminating physical clickers, and seamlessly integrates feedback into bCourses.

Teaching with Zoom in Berkeley Classrooms

February 28, 2022, 2:00pm
This event is primarily a discussion focused on the technical challenges of teaching in a hybrid format from various classrooms on campus.

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...

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.

Maximizing Media Production for Student Engagement (7/14)

July 14, 2021, 10:00am
In this interactive workshop, participants will explore key elements and strategies for DIY audio and media production processes.

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...

Build Your Gradebook in bCourses

January 9, 2024, 2:00pm

Picture of Peter HeckelJoin 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.

In this workshop, you will learn how to:...

bCourses Essentials

May 4, 2022, 10:00am
Join us for an overview of the bCourses learning management system (LMS) and its native (built-in) features.