Read more to see new features and enhancements for Fall 2015!
August 10, 2015
Summary: Sign-up for a classroom orientation 8/17/2015-8/24/2015 and get a free VGA computer adapter
August 7, 2015
On Sunday, August 9, between 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM, the following bCourses tools will be unavailable due to scheduled system maintenance:
Scheduled Maintenance
Outage Start Time: August 8, 2015, 10PM
Outage End Time: August 9, 2015, 12PM
Description: Instructors will not be able to access the Course Capture sign-up page during this time.
August 3, 2015
Updated 1/11/2016
Beginning Spring 2016, ETS will support i>Clicker version 7 Additional Information on the Clickers Getting Started Page.
July 17, 2015
Updates to bCourses this summer include recurring events in the calendar and a few enhancements to the Assignments tool.
June 26, 2015
A long awaited enhancement- the ability to excuse assignments- has been added to Canvas! Read on to find out more.
June 18, 2015
Our UC Berkeley community lost one of its guiding lights when Steve Tollefson unexpectedly passed away on Thursday June 4, 2014. Steve taught writing at UC Berkeley for several decades and was the author of four books on writing and grammar, including Grammar Grams (1989) and Grammar Grams II (1992, HarperCollins), as well as short stories and numerous articles. He was a recipient of the campus Distinguished Teaching Award.
June 5, 2015
Instructors can now create assignments to individual students! Read the first of our summer updates to learn more.
May 15, 2015
We hope that the Spring semester has been a good one for you and your students. As it comes to a close, we’d like to share with you some updates to bCourses and offer support, especially for grading, to help you finish out the term.
May 7, 2015
Phising Scam Reported: You are not losing your access to bCourses
April 30, 2015
Beginning Fall 2015, ETS will make key changes to our Course Capture (webcast) service in order to reduce service costs and enable us to maintain a lecture capture service focused on students:
PLEASE NOTE: The timeline for bSpace content retrieval listed on this page has been updated, and is no longer accurate. Current information and timelines for bSpace content retrieval can be found at: https://www.ets.berkeley.edu/news/bspace-content-retrieval-available-upon-request
April 29, 2015
Please excuse our dust! Big changes are coming to ETS the week of May 4 as we move a large portion of our team to our new offices at 2850 Telegraph.
As part of series of larger campus department-relocation projects, ETS will soon be vacating our offices on Level C Dwinelle. By this fall most of our team will be located at 2850 Telegraph and the lower-level of Cesar Chavez.
April 27, 2015
Peer Reviews can now be made anonymously! Plus: E-Grades Export and Assignment enhancements are included in the newest updates to bCourses.
April 17, 2015
We have invited Linda Feng, Senior Product Manager, SIS Integration & Analytics for Canvas to give us an update on Learning Analytics features in Canvas (bCourses) and share their roadmap.
What: Learning analytics features roadmap for bCourses (Canvas)*
When: April 21, 2015 at 2-3:30pm
Where: Dwinelle Hall 127 - Level D
What do we mean by Analytics?
April 16, 2015
This morning the CalCentral team deployed CalCentral version 54.
Version 54 includes display of detailed AP and EAP credits, better handling of academic status between semesters, and miscellaneous fixes.
April 8, 2015
Announcement: Larry Conrad Associate VC - IS&T & Chief Information Officer (campus-wide)
May 13, 2015: 6:03 PM
To the Campus Community,