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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.

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.

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ETS is Here to Help 

Below is a quick list of things to do and to know before classes start to help you through the next couple of weeks.

[Updated 6/30/2017]

This email was sent on June 2, 2017 to Summer Session B, C and D instructors. 

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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.

In 1956, the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE) was founded as the first research institute devoted to the study of systems, processes, and institutions of higher learning. Dedicated to promoting an interdisciplinary view of the role of higher education in the public sector, it focuses on all aspects of the policy landscape from the international arena to the California community.

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