This section will provide you with essential information to navigate campus life. Discover campus facilities, services, and resources, including administrative offices and academic support systems. Engage with the campus community through networking opportunities, committees, and events.
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New Senate Faculty: Provides information to support your transition and success, such as an onboarding checklist, housing, benefits, etc.
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Supported Learning Tools: Provides information on Berkeley supported tools such asbCourses, Ed Discussion, Gradescope, etc.
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Quick Support Options: Provides information onservices to support the needs of instructors and researchers, such as classroom technology support, bCourses support, Center for Teaching & Learning consultation, etc.
- Instructor Guide to Disabled Students' Program: Provides guidance on accommodating students with disabilities (recording lectures, extensions on assignments, etc.)
- Academic Senate: The Academic Senate oversees admissions and degrees, advises the Chancellor on budgets, supervises courses, and provides input on faculty matters.
- Research, Teaching, and Learning Spring 2024 Instructional Events: Series of instructional events thoughtfully designed to enhance your academic success.
This section will guide you through effective course design and proactive planning to cater to the needs of your students. Explore resources and strategies for creating a student-centered learning experience that anticipates and addresses their requirements.
- bCourses: bCourses is UC Berkeley’s local brand for the Canvas learning management system.
- Course Map: The Course Map is grounded in the "backward design" model. To that end, it provides a structure to plan each module around learning objectives and then determine which readings, lectures, materials, activities, assessments, and interactions should be included.
- Core Template: Using bCourses' built-in course construction and management tools, Core Template offers a consistent organization founded in best practices in online pedagogy.
- Import the Core Template
- Weekly Landing Pages: Weekly landing pages are an excellent way to keep your course organized so that students have easy access to relevant course content.
- Knowledge Checks and Formative Assessments: Utilize quizzes, discussions, assignments, and collaborations in the Core Template to assess student understanding.
- Faculty Checklist for Quality Digital Learning Development: Use the checklist to review your course and how its design and execution may impact the student learning experience.
- Remote Instruction Guide: This guide helps optimize your bCourses site as a virtual classroom, create asynchronous content, encourage interaction, and adapt assessments for remote learning.
Designing Your Course
How can you plan what stud
ents will be doing without first knowing what you want them to learn? By focusing course planning around clear learning objectives, instructors can have a better sense of how students should demonstrate their learning, and then consider what day-to-day experiences may best support students’ learning.
Running Your Course
Students will come to your class with a variety of experiences, backgrounds, and expectations that will impact how they approach learning. As the instructor, you can create an environment where all students are engaged and able to learn by intentionally designing your course and employing teaching strategies that account for these differences and meet students where they are when they arrive in the classroom.
Assessing Learning
How do you know when students experience a barrier to learning? How do you assess the strengths and weaknesses in your teaching practice? What evidence informs potential changes to your course or teaching practice the next time you teach? Explore strategies for reflecting on your teaching practice and collecting evidence of student learning and learning experiences.
Advancing Equity and Inclusion
Inclusive teaching encompasses teaching strategies and approaches that take into account and welcome the wide range of identities, experiences, needs, and backgrounds that students bring to the class by creating a learning environment where all students can thrive. This can include course design and teaching strategies that you regularly incorporate into your class and a mindset you adopt to be responsive to fluctuating student needs and cultural moments.