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 Tuesday, January 2, 2018.
Curtailment will be observed: 5:00 pm Friday December 22, 2017 through 5:00 pm Monday, January 1, 2018.
Web-based Services
Early in October, faculty, advisors and academic and IT staff came together to discuss an emerging concept in education, learning analytics, and what it means for Berkeley. The conversations that occurred inside and outside of Sutardja Dai Hall during the 2017 Learning Analytics Conference were a “community discussion”.
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Updated 2:13 pm, 12/27/2017
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At 12:50pm, 10/27/2017, ETS was notified via automatic monitoring that http://course-evaluations.berkeley.edu was unresponsive.
We are currently working with the vendor Explorance to resolve this issue. .
On October 28, the current bCourses "Grading History" feature will be replaced with a new "Gradebook History" tool, which will allow this tool to be accessed in large courses. The legacy "Grading History" feature was limited to courses with under 2000 gradebook entries, making it unavailable in courses with a large number of students and/or graded assignments.
ETS and One IT Partners have made improvements to the IT Knowledge Base to help campus get the info they need faster.
bCourses has been updated to assign CalCentral 5-PROXY/APRX designees with teaching responsibilities as the Lead TA in bCourses sites. This work was completed to better support large courses where the instructor of record delegates course management and oversight responsibilities in CalCentral.
When granting the Lead TA role to 5-PROXY/APRX designees in bCourses, there is first a check made to ensure that the individual has teaching responsibilities. This prevents administrative, non-teaching 5-PROXY/APRX designees from being granted unnecessary access to individual courses.
ETS is excited to introduce the Gradescope tool to the campus community. Thanks to feedback from instructors and a dedicated group of testers, we are pleased to announce that Berkeley has signed a contract with Gradescope giving campus instructors access to all of the features available in this assignment grading tool.
This email was sent on 08/23/2017 to Clicker User Group Members
Dear Clicker user:
Please take a look at our News article, which has information about the following:
The latest version of iClicker software, which has been rebranded as iClicker Classic and also has a new setting (that is not selected by default) that may make roster synching go more smoothly.
Are you an instructor planning to use the iClicker system this fall? Here’s what you need to know:
First time users have a place to start: Check out our Clickers Instructors Getting Started Page which has information about how to obtain and use the necessary hardware and software, as well as how to get support from ETS.
In Fall 2017, two new integrations have been added to bCourses:
Effective August 1, 2017, Research IT, the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), and Educational Technology Services (ETS) have been aligned into a single portfolio.
UPDATE, 08/10/17, 9:13 AM:
Canvas engineers have implemented a fix allowing users to access Canvas. Users are now able to log in. For details, visit http://status.instructure.com/.
If you continue to see the error message that was displaying during the outage, please try clearing your browser cache and history, quitting your browser application, and then re-opening it.
ORIGINAL MESSAGE, 08/10/17, 9:00 AM
This email was sent on August 7, 2017 to all fall instructors.
Below is a quick list of things to do and to know before classes start to help you through the next couple of weeks.
The ETS managed drop-in computer facilities (computer labs) will be repurposed beginning this fall semester, in a move to align IT resources and meet changing needs of campus. Beginning with the start of the fall 2017 semester, the ETS drop-in computer facilities on the first floor of Moffitt Library and inside the Bioscience & Natural Resources Library (2180 VLSB) will be closed, and those two spaces will transition to new uses.
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This email was sent on June 2, 2017 to Summer Session B, C and D instructors.
Instructors and Students,
bCourses will be available during the upcoming outage; however, some tools and features will be unavilable to instructors. See full list below.
Access bCourses directly at: bCourses.berkeley.edu
Effective July 31, 2017, the iThenticate service will no longer be offered by UC Berkeley. This difficult decision was driven by a combination of low usage and the high cost of making iThenticate available at Berkeley.
Here at UC Berkeley, we have a reputation for using cutting-edge technology and tools to affect social change. As the world’s number one public university, it’s in our DNA to use our combined talents and skills for the good of others.