iClicker underwent scheduled enhancement on Thursday, December 19, 2024. With this update, iClicker Events is now available as a new add-on service for universities with an iClicker Cloud institutional license. Designed for quick and flexible polling, iClicker Events allows instructors with an iClicker account to easily run polls without the need to set up a full iClicker course.
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Respondus underwent scheduled enhancement on Wednesday, December 18, 2024. With this update, the Respondus link on the course navigation menu was renamed from “Respondus LockDown Browser” to “LockDown Browser.”
BruinCast underwent scheduled enhancement on Wednesday, December 18, 2024. With this update, the BruinCast team transitioned their website from an external vendor to an in-house solution for storing and sharing media content with Bruin Learn.
Hypothesis underwent scheduled enhancement on Wednesday, December 4, 2024. With this update, the new Auto Grading feature in Hypothesis will give instructors the option to automatically calculate grades based on the number of notes students add to a Hypothesis assignment and, if desired, send those grades directly to the Bruin Learn gradebook.
Publisher Tools underwent scheduled enhancement on Monday, December 16, 2024. With this update, the Bruin Learn publisher integrations for Macmillan, Pearson, and VitalSource were upgraded from Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) version 1.1 to version 1.3.
Bruin Learn / Canvas experienced an outage that started on Friday, November 22, 2024, at 9:17 am PT and was resolved on Friday, November 22, 2024 at 9:43 am PT. During this time, users may have encountered "500 Page Errors" when accessing Bruin Learn.
Hypothesis underwent scheduled maintenance on Saturday, November 30th, from 12:00am -2:00am PT. During this time, the platform was unavailable.
Bruin Learn / Canvas will undergo scheduled enhancement in Spring 2025 (TBD). With this update, SpeedGrader has been optimized for faster load times and improved stability.
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 underwent 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.
UCLA Media Reserves / BruinCast experienced an outage on Friday, September 27, 2024. When users attempted to play a video for Fall courses on BruinCast through UCLA Media Reserves, an error message appeared.
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 Spring 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.