Gauchospace, found at https://gauchospace.ucsb.edu, is a UCSB branded installation of Moodle. It is being phased out during the 2022-2023 school year in favor of Canvas, however, prior to the 2022-2023 school year, it was the main Course Management System (CMS) used at UCSB.

A key benefit of Gauchospace is the ability to have a secure centralized gradebook, i.e. one where:

• Instructors, TAs and readers have read/write access to all grades
• Students have read only access to only their own grade

Other benefits:

• Adding/dropping is automatic, and synchronized with course enrollment
• All students and faculty already have a username/password (their existing UCSBNetID).

A consideration whenusing Gauchospace for actual curriculum content (e.g. content of lectures, labs, homework and programming assignments) is that typically only students enrolled in the course can see that content. This can make sharing curriculum resources more cumbersome.

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