At the start of the Fall 2008 semester, webcast.berkeley launched an entirely new back-end system in support of webcasting operations. This system has brought several major improvements to webcast.berkeley offerings:

• Faculty scheduled to teach in a webcast capable classroom can now sign up for webcast and/or podcast quickly and easily online within bSpace.
• webcast.berkeley now offers video downloads! Just click on the video rss link () to get direct access to the media links or to subscribe in your RSS news reader.
• webcast.berkeley is piloting a new service called screencasting for CS 162 & MCB 110. This service captures any high-resolution source being projected in the classroom, syncs it with the lecture audio and creates a high resolution mp4 file. We expect to make this service available more broadly in the Fall 2009 semester.

Thank you to all of you who have written in to let us know how important the search feature was to you! We are working on bringing this feature back to webcast.berkeley so stay tuned.