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What is bCourses?

bCourses is the rich learning management system supported by Berkeley Law and UC Berkeley. The Berkeley Law Instructional Technology team provides the service of creating web bCourses for all Berkeley Law courses and supporting all users with training and support.

bCourses in 4 Minutes

bCourses has a New Look!

Confused about the new User Interface in bCourses? Check this FAQ with information about the change. As always, contact us if you need help.

Tips and Tricks

Visit our new bCourses Tips and Tricks page to learn about solutions to the most frequent problems our instructors have had with bCourses.

bCourses Basics

Getting Started

Login to bCourses: bcourses.berkeley.edu

What is the Dashboard

How do I view my courses?

How do I navigate a Canvas course?

What is the Course Setup Checklist?

What is the Calendar?

How do I use the Scheduler?

How do I publish my course?

Course Content

How do I edit the Syllabus description?

What is the Rich Content Editor?

What is the Content Selector?

Modules

What are Modules?

How do I add items to a Module?

How do I edit Module items?

How do I reorder Module items?

How do I delete Module items?

How do I create a new Module?

How do I reorder Modules on the page?

How do I delete a Module?

How do I require students to move through each Module item in order?

How do I lock a Module?

How do I view the progress of my students in Modules?

How do I link to an external URL in Modules?

Files

Where are my course Files?

How do I add a file to my course?

How do I move and organize my files?

How do I create a folder in Files?

How do I bulk upload files to my course?

How do I delete a file?

How do I lock files and folders in Canvas?

Student View

What is Student View?

How do I access Student View?

bCourses Tools

What are Assignments?

What are Discussions?

What are the different types of Quizzes?

What are Pages?

Communication

What are Announcements?

How do I make an Announcement?

How do I attach a file to an Announcement?

How do I get a copy of my Announcement emailed to me ASAP – (Video)

How do I access the Conversations Inbox?

How do I adjust my Notification Preferences for Conversations?

How do I find my unread messages in Conversations?

How do I compose a message?

How do I reply to a message in Conversations?

How do I send a message to an entire class?

How do I privately respond to an individual in a larger Conversation?

How do I send a private message to an individual?

How do I attach a file to a message?

How do I attach a media comment to my message?

How do I join the course Chat?

Collaboration

What are Conferences?

How do I create a Conference?

How do I start a Conference?

How do I use the Conference interface?

How do I join a Conference?

How do I record a Conference?

What are Collaborations?

How do I add people to my Collaboration?

What are Student Groups?

How do I start a new Google Docs Collaboration?

Class Admin

How do I access People?

Where can I see a summary of my interactions with a student?

What are Course Statistics?

Where can I find statistics about when students are accessing the course?

How to add a Berkeley Faculty, Students or Staff to your bCourse

Create a Guest Account to add a non-Berkeley users to your bCourse

Customizing bCourses

How do I access my personal Settings?

How do Notification Preferences work?

How do I set my Notification Preferences?

What do each of the Notification Preferences mean?

How do I customize my Courses drop-down menu?

How do I change the Course Home Page?

How do I reorder and hide Course Navigation links?

What course settings do I have control over?

Other Guides

Instructor Guide

bCourses Access Policy

We have created the following web page to explain which staff have administrative access to your bCourses sites and their roles. Please take a minute to review this policy and contact us with any feedback or questions you have:

https://www.law.berkeley.edu/bcourses-access-policy/