At a time when many aspects of daily life have been altered, UC Berkeley assistant teaching professor Gireeja Ranade has been working alongside TAs to try to make sure students do not feel that anything has changed.
The pandemic and resulting yearlong course of online instruction have thrust GSIs into a new realm of challenges, such as trying to preserve educational aspects of in-person instruction while creating accommodations for students.
Some professors have found that their courses, such as ones in electrical engineering and computer sciences, or EECS, were difficult to shift online, and GSIs echoed the sentiment that virtual instruction has posed unique challenges.