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It’s no secret how fond our school is of displaying its Berkeley pride in virtually everything remotely related to the university. We have BearWalk, Bear Market, BearFacts — you get the idea. A crucial part of this esteemed ‘b’ club was bSpace, but it is slowly being phrased out by the
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UC Berkeley expects it will completely phase out its current learning management system, bSpace, by the end of spring 2015. The new system, called bCourses, began implementation over the summer.
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We at the Clog understand that a billion websites are tossed at you when you first arrive at Cal. We figured you already know your bSpace from your BearFacts, so we probed into Berkeley’s database of websites to find useful yet underutilized websites you should know. 1. BearCheck This website
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One of the most surprising things about attending one of the world’s most acclaimed universities is how antiquated some of the online technology is. It only takes a fleeting glance at the disgusting 1990s-looking Tele-BEARS or BearFacts to realize that the general Berkeley area seems immune to the rest of
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CalCentral, which will launch Wednesday, combines bConnected, bCourses, Financial Aid, bSpace, and BearFacts in one convenient portal. It will also include bConnected email, CalLink student groups, messages from professors, registration status, final grades, financial aid messages, and bCourses assignments among other features.
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As part of an ongoing effort to upgrade the campus’ online educational tools, UC Berkeley’s Educational Technology Services (ETS) has announced it will pilot online platform Canvas with the long-term goal of replacing bSpace, the current system for hosting course webpages.
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When Carlos Noreña entered UC Berkeley as a freshman in 1988, he, like so many university students, “came armed with a large, boxy Apple Macintosh computer.” As students, the computer is our lifeline, our bread and butter, the indispensable utility belt to our Batman. But, for Noreña, the situation was
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UC Berkeley is designing a new platform to improve online interaction and collaboration among students, faculty and staff — part of an overall shift toward using alternative platforms to improve cross-campus communication. Currently in the design and pilot phases, CalCentral seeks to combine all the features of bSpace — the
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Due to the inflexibility of current UC Berkeley online discussion forums, campus instructors and administrators are increasingly turning to social media and other online platforms to better communicate with students. Most recently marked by the launch of a campus Facebook application, social media and other nontraditional platforms for discussion are
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Three project proposals — one of which involves hiring an outside consulting firm — were approved by Operational Excellence leadership Monday. The proposals, which include creating a council to oversee campus advising, hiring a team to plan for new technology and forming a center to help staff navigate online systems,
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