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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

 

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

Account

How do I access my personal Settings?

How do I add contact methods to receive notifications?

How do I set my Notification Preferences?

Dashboard

What is the Dashboard

How to create Course Site and Project Site?

Removing a course from my dashboard

What is the Course Setup Checklist?

Calendar

What is the Calendar?

How do I use the Scheduler?

Course Contents

What is the Rich Content Editor?

What is the Content Selector?

How do I publish my course?

Syllabus

How do I edit the Syllabus description?

Add Course Schedule to the Syllabus Tab

Modules

What are Modules?

How do I add items to a Module?

How do I reorder Module items?

How do I delete Module items?

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 bulk upload files to my course?

How do I delete a file?

How do I lock files and folders in Canvas?

Assignments
How do I upload all student submissions for an assignment?

How do I leave feedback for my students in SpeedGrader? 

 
Discussions/Quizzes

How do I create a discussion as an instructor?

What are the different types of Quizzes?

What are Pages?

Communication

How do I get a copy of my Announcement emailed to me and students?

How do I access the Conversations Inbox?

How do I find my unread messages in Conversations?

How do I compose a message?

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 attach a media comment to my message?

Collaboration

What are Student Groups?

How do I start a new Google Docs Collaboration?

Class Admin (Roles, Accounts, Statistics, etc)

How do I access People?

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

bCourses Roles and Permissions

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

Customizing bCourses

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?