Bruin Learn / Canvas will undergo scheduled enhancement on Saturday, January 18, 2025. With this update, SpeedGrader has been optimized for faster load times and improved stability.
Recent Enhancements News Articles
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement in November 2024. With this update, the migration of the New Analytics (course-level analytics) feature to the Data Access Platform (DAP) will now extend through November 30th.
Bruin Learn / Canvas will undergo scheduled enhancement on Saturday, January 18, 2025. With this update, instructors can now set multiple due dates or checkpoints when creating a graded discussion to accommodate different stages of the discussion process, such as an initial post and follow-up replies.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Saturday, October 19, 2024. With this update, instructors using New Quizzes will be able to control the timing and visibility of feedback and correct answers for students.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Wednesday, September 11, 2024. With this update, SpeedGrader offers Rich Content Editor (RCE) features when commenting, including options for Heading, Bold, Italic, Underline, Font color, Insert Hyperlink, and Bullets.
Bruin Learn / Canvas will undergo scheduled enhancement in Winter 2025 (TBD). With this update, product discovery will be conducted to evaluate the benefits and drawbacks of creating a dedicated landing page for https://bruinlearn.ucla.edu, aiming to better understand customer needs and the business context.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Monday, September 16, 2024. With this update, Admin Analytics will be enabled, allowing individuals with Account Admin, Academic Support Admin, Sub-Account Admin, and Instructional Designer (Root) Admin roles in Bruin Learn to view analytics across courses within their account or department.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Monday, September 9, 2024. With this update, an Instructor Hub LTI for Bruin Learn is being developed. Now, TAs, the instructor of record, and sub-account admins can create a companion TA site directly from the main curricular course site on demand.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Tuesday, September 3, 2024. With this update, the UCLA Media Lab (located in the Library) will transition to a new Wowza streaming media server, the Bruin Learn CoE team will update the server hostname in the Student Products on-premise WebSphere API.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Friday, August 30, 2024. With this update, the UCLA Media Lab in the Library is responsible for managing the Video Reserves assets and infrastructure that Bruin Learn users access through the "UCLA Media Reserves" LTI tool.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Saturday, August 17, 2024. With this update, in New Quizzes, instructors can customize the feedback shown to students after they complete a quiz.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Wednesday, August 14, 2024. With this update, filtering by term on the Sub-Account Course list now displays only the terms relevant to the sub-account courses.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement from the vendor on Saturday, August 17, 2024. With this update, instructors can disable threaded replies in Discussions. When this setting is enabled, students can respond to the discussion prompt, but others cannot reply to their responses. This allows instructors to restrict discussions to initial responses only, when needed.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Friday, August 9, 2024. With this update, the automated scheduled service will only process the delta of course sites that have been published and/or reset since the last time the service ran. This update will not affect end users in any way.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Saturday, July 20, 2024. With this update, the Publish and Unpublish buttons on the Home page and Course Settings page are redesigned as a drop-down menu.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Saturday, July 20, 2024. With this update, the Inbox/Conversations tool includes an option for instructors and students to set an auto-response for messages.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Saturday, July 20, 2024. With this update, instructors can assign Pages to students and set availability dates in Pages. Additionally, instructors can assign Pages to Mastery Paths.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Saturday, July 20, 2024. With this update, instructors can assign ungraded discussions to students and sections in Discussions. Previously, the "Assign to" settings were only available for graded discussions.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Saturday, July 20, 2024. With this update, instructors can assign entire modules or individual module items to specific students or sections from the Modules page. Additionally, the Add Module and Edit Module Settings pages are redesigned as trays that slide out from the right side of the screen.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Saturday, July 20, 2024. With this update, the Inbox/Conversations tool allows instructors and students to add a plain text signature that will automatically be added to any new messages they compose.