Services

Academic Integrity services at Berkeley provide students and instructors tools that integrate with bCourses Assignments and Quizzes to promote compliance with Berkeley's Honor Code. These opt-in tools are enabled through bCourses, allowing Instructors and TAs to restrict student access to external resources during Quizzes or review Assignment submissions for originality.

Ally is a set of tools within bCourses that helps make course content more accessible by allowing students and instructors to convert files to HTML, EPUB, electronic braille or MP3 (audio). The Ally tool also provides instructors with visual indicators gauging the accessibility of source files and assigns an accessibility score to each uploaded file.

bCourses is Berkeley's official campus Learning Management System (LMS), using the open-source Canvas platform. This tool provides a resource for instructors and students to enrich the teaching and learning experience. bCourses is integrated with our Academic Integrity, Clickers, CalCentral, Course Capture, SuiteC, and Gradescope services.

bCourses Project Sites support Berkeley courses requiring an online space beyond the standard bCourses course sites. Designed to assist instructors and course-based projects, these sites provide an academics-focused collaboration area.

BOA (Berkeley Online Advising) provides academic advisors unified student data from multiple campus services to access information that supports student success.

Course Design Tools provides instructors with resources to develop pedagogically sound remote courses. This service includes the DLS Core Template, developed by Digital Learning Services using bCourses’ built-in course construction and management tools.

Course Evaluations at Berkeley offers departments the opportunity to coordinate course evaluations through a customizable online system with easy management and reporting. This campus-provided common-good service is managed by DLS and is available to departments who have opted into the service.

The Do-It-Yourself Media Service is intended to support instructors looking to add video to their teaching techniques. Instructors can use DIY Media facilities and support resources to create video content for online lectures, flipped classroom activities, blended learning materials, tutorial videos and more.

Gradescope is a suite of tools designed to accommodate a common grading workflow. The software can reveal valuable statistics about students work, and provide a path for students to request re-grades of questions.

Kaltura is a web-based video management platform that allows for the upload, editing, managing and sharing of videos and other media. Kaltura can be accessed from bCourses (Canvas).

Online Discussions allow students to participate in an asynchronous conversation with a group or the entire class, and there are several options available for UC Berkeley courses. These include bCourses built-in discussion tool, and integrated platform, Ed Discussion.

Clickers (also known as “Audience Response Systems”, "Classroom Response Systems", and "Student Response Systems") enable instructors to pose questions to their class and immediately collect and view the responses. Clickers are often used to increase student engagement and obtain real-time feedback.

SuiteC provides bCourses users with additional tools to support student engagement and collaboration.

"Zoom for Instruction" provides workshops, consultations and other support for Berkeley instructors using Zoom.