Perusall underwent scheduled maintenance on Friday, July 12, 2024. With this change, Perusall now supports Canvas Sections integration. Instructors have the option to create assignments specifically assigned to their discussion or lab sections.
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Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Friday, July 12, 2024. With this update, root-account admins will be allowed to upload the CSV list for processing using the Canvas Enrollments API endpoint. This bypasses the invite/pending status and doesn’t set the SIS import attribute, and as a result, instructors can promptly handle student drops in their collaboration sites without needing to request a root-account admin from the Bruin Learn CoE to process them.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Monday, June 17, 2024. With this change, Canvas Discussions introduces a more accessible user interface. Key features include flexible viewing options (both inline and split view), the ability to report posts, quoting functionality, improved search with highlighting, fully and partially anonymous graded discussions, and enhanced sorting and filtering options.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Friday, June 14, 2024. As part of the Bruin Learn Integration Platform to ensure FERPA compliance, a custom service was developed. With this update, the Node.js APIs in the Bruin Learn Integration Platform is deprecated. Consequently, this specific API will be migrated to AWS.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Friday, May 31, 2024. With this update, tools will be arranged in a specific order based on usage data, while uncommon ones will be hidden in the Course Navigation Menu of all new course sites.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Wednesday, May 22, 2024. With this change, instructors can now randomize the order of students in SpeedGrader settings.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Wednesday, May 22, 2024. With this change, in the Sections tab of course settings, the Add a New Section field is relocated above the list of sections. Additionally, new sections are now added to the top of the list, whereas previously, they were added at the bottom.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Saturday, May 18, 2024. With this change, a Find-and-Replace feature has been added to the Rich Content Editor (RCE).
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled maintenance on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. With this update to the service, students' email addresses can be updated in bulk within their Bruin Learn user accounts, on a unit-by-unit basis, to ensure they reflect the correct unit-specific addresses.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Monday, May 13, 2024. With this update, thirteen AWS lambda functions will be updated to use query requests instead of using scan requests.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Wednesday, May 8, 2024. With this change, the "Message Students Who" feature in the Gradebook now allows instructors to message students who have submitted an assignment. Instructors can now choose to message all students who submitted on time, students with graded on-time assignments, and students with ungraded on-time assignments. Additionally, for students who have not submitted, the "Message Students Who" feature in the Gradebook now includes a checkbox that allows instructors to exclude excused students from the message.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent enhancement on Saturday, April 20, 2024. With this change, there is increased flexibility when managing grading schemes.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Thursday, April 4, 2024. With this update, data from the employee Operational Data Store (ODS) will be used to (a)perform a one-time bulk-provisioning of Bruin Learn user accounts for all current non-academic employees and (b) provision Bruin Learn user accounts for new non-academic employees daily on a set schedule.
Kaltura underwent scheduled maintenance on Sunday, May 26, 2024, at 10 pm PT through Monday, May 27, 2024, at 1 pm PT. No service degradation was expected during this time.
Turnitin had an unexpected service incident on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Users accessing Turnitin UK, iThenticate (V1 and V2), Crossref Similarity Check, Turnitin Similarity, Originality, and SimCheck may have experienced slowness when uploading submissions and delayed report generation.
Kaltura underwent scheduled maintenance on Sunday, May 19, 2024, at 10 pm PT through Monday, May 20, 2024, at 1 pm PT. No service degradation was expected during this time.
Kaltura underwent scheduled maintenance on Sunday, May 5, 2024, at 9pm PST through Monday, May 6, 2024, at 12pm PST. No service degradation was expected during this time.
UCLA Media Reserves experienced an outage that started on Sunday, April 21, 2024, at 4:00 PDT and was resolved on Sunday, April 21, 2024, at 7:15 PDT. During this time, there was an interruption accessing BruinCast videos via UCLA Media Reserves.
Poll Everywhere experienced an outage that started on Wednesday, April 3, 2024, at 2:49pm PDT and was resolved on Wednesday, April 3, 2024 at 3:42pm PDT. During this time, users were unable to insert activities into Google Slides presentations, and placeholders did not show slide content in other presenter applications.
Turnitin and Gradescope underwent scheduled maintenance on Saturday, April 20, 2024 from 7:00am – 12:00 pm PDT. During this time, some Turnitin and Gradescope features were be unavailable.