bCourses, Clickers, Ally, Course Evaluations, DIY Media, Gradescope, and SuiteC have a new home.
August 16, 2019
August 13, 2019
The Classroom Technology Services support team is here to help with all your classroom AV-related needs!
Our team has been busy over the summer upgrading and preparing general assignment classrooms across campus for the fall. Check out our updates and important start of semester info below:
May 10, 2019
Due to a labor action scheduled on May 16, 2019, ETS currently expects delays in responses for many of our services including bCourses and classroom technology due to limited capacity anticipated at CSS IT Help Desk during and after the labor strike. Additional information from campus can be found on the Strike Ifnromation Webpage.
Classroom Technology Support:
April 8, 2019
Due to a labor action scheduled on April 10, 2019, ETS currently expects delays in responses for many of our services including bCourses and classroom technology due to limited capacity anticipated at CSS IT Help Desk during and after the labor strike.
Classroom Technology Support:
April 4, 2019
Resolved
4/11
YouTube has identified and fixed the issue that was preventing the posting of new course capture recordings. All recordings made during the outage should be available. We will be removing the workaround that was put in place during the outage.
4/5 4pm
The original YouTube issue is unresolved, but a workaround has been created to provide students with access to videos using bDrive and bCourses.
April 3, 2019
In Summer 2019, ETS plans to make a new quizzing tool available in bCourses known as Quizzes.Next (What is Quizzes.Next? | Canvas LMS Community). This tool will provide a more modern interface and new question types for instructors creating assessments in bCourses.
In late 2017, Canvas made its initial release of a New Gradebook (Release Notes). Since that time, Canvas has released a series of updates to ensure the stability of this tool and add new features based on feedback and testing.
March 18, 2019
Due to a labor action scheduled on March 20, 2019, ETS currently expects delays in responses for many of our services including bCourses and classroom technology due to limited capacity anticipated at CSS IT Help Desk during and after the labor strike.
Classroom Technology Support:
February 15, 2019
From approximately 8am-11pm on Friday, February 15, the Turnitin service was offline due to a vendor database failure. Originality Check reports were unavailable at this time. More information is available on the vendor's website: https://turnitin.status.io/pages/history/59a83c00d031972d05000063
January 25, 2019
This Spring ETS combined efforts with the Acadmic Innovation studio, Center for Teaching and Learning, and Research IT to provide a centralized communication effort. You can find the HTML version of the newsletter at this link.
January 9, 2019
[January 11, 2019, email communication from Vice Chancellor Cathy Koshland and Assistant Vice Chancellor Jenn Stringer]
Dear Colleagues,
Issue Overview
On Friday, January 4, Educational Technology Services (ETS) became aware of a data discrepancy impacting all Fall 2018 end-of-term course evaluation reports managed by our online course evaluation platform. As of January 9, 2019, this issue is now resolved for all reports. For more information, please see issue summary below.
Please contact course-evaluations@berkeley.edu for further information.
Our Classrooms Technology Services team can help you get the most out of your General Assignment Classroom.
January 2, 2019
If you are planning to use iClicker this semester, ETS has a number of recommendations:
December 4, 2018
Educational Technology Services is committed to helping the campus reduce energy use during the winter break and will be participating in the campus-wide curtailment. Emails and requests received during this time will be answered in the order in which they were received when the campus reopens Wednesday, January 2, 2019.
Curtailment will be observed: 5:00 pm Friday December 21, 2018 through 5:00 pm Tuesday, January 1, 2019.
Web-based Services
December 3, 2018
In Spring 2019, the Ally accessibility checker will be enabled in all bCourses sites (https://www.ets.berkeley.edu/ally-tool-within-bcourses). Ally integrates seamlessly with bCourses to offer instructors a course-wide picture of the accessibility of their online course content while also providing students with downloadable alternative formats.
November 27, 2018
bCourses now supports Blueprint Courses (https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-11513-canvas-release-blueprint-...), a feature intended for departments or programs who wish to centrally manage content for multiple courses. This tool introduces a new indicator in the Settings page for all courses, showing whether the class is a Blueprint Course; for most classes, this will read "Blueprint Course: No", meaning that the Blueprint Course feature is not in use.
In Summer 2019, ETS plans to make a new quizzing tool available in Canvas (currently known as Quizzes.Next: https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-15014-67952929189). This tool will provide a more modern interface and new question types for instructors developing quizzes in bCourses.
In late 2017, Canvas made its initial release of an updated Gradebook (https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-13333-canvas-release-new-gradebook). Since that time, Canvas has released a series of updates to ensure stability of this tool and add new features making this new tool comparable to the existing one. As of late 2018/early 2019, Canvas has achieved feature parity between the current and revised gradebook.
October 22, 2018
Due to the AFSCME and UPTE labor action scheduled on October 23 -26, ETS currently expects delays in responses for many of our services including bCourses and classroom technology due to limited capacity anticipated at CSS IT Help Desk during and after the labor strike.
Classroom Technology Support: