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.
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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.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Saturday, July 20, 2024. With this update, a separate "Time" field has been added to the "Due" and "Availability" dates. A "Clear" function now allows users to clear these dates with one click. When instructors add "Assign To" settings to an assignment or discussion from within a Module, the note "Inherited From [module]" will appear. Instructors can also edit the "Assign To" settings directly from an Assignment or graded Discussion page without editing the entire activity.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Wednesday, July 17, 2024. With this update, in SpeedGrader, after drafting a comment and moving on to another student, a "Draft" label displays, indicating that the comment has not been submitted.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Tuesday, June 18, 2024. With this update, instructors and students on the All Courses page can now sort their courses by the following categories: Favorite, Course, Nickname, Term, Role ("Enrolled as"), and Published.
Turnitin and Gradescope underwent scheduled maintenance on Saturday, August 17, 2024, from 6:00 am – 2:00 pm PT. During this time, some Turnitin and Gradescope features were unavailable.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Sunday, June 30, 2024. With this change, there will be a redesigned Help Menu in Bruin Learn. This update aims to better meet the needs of our faculty and students.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Wednesday, July 3, 2024. With this update, if someone has selected pronouns in their Canvas profile, those pronouns will now be displayed in Inbox messages. Additionally, pronouns will appear in the drop-down menu when composing a message and in the Inbox search field.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Wednesday, July 3, 2024. With this update, the "Message Students Who" Cutoff Value field in the Gradebook has been relocated, and a header has been added for clarity. Additionally, a message now informs instructors that the values they see may differ from what students see in the Gradebook.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Wednesday, July 3, 2024. With this update, the "Delayed Posting" field in Announcements has been changed to "Available from and Until."
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Saturday, July 20, 2024. With this change, instructors can notify students when an announcement has been updated in Announcements.
Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Wednesday, July 3, 2024. With this change, a "Mark all as read" button is available in Announcements.
Poll Everywhere experienced an outage that started on Wednesday, June 12, 2024, at 12:41 pm PT and was resolved on Wednesday, June 12, 2024, at 3:05 pm PT. The ability to sync rosters was unavailable on PollEverywhere.com. More specifically, a "Content missing" page appeared instead of the roster sync dashboard.
Bruin Learn / Canvas experienced an outage that started on Wednesday, June 12, 2024 at 10:10 am PT and was resolved on Wednesday, June 12, 2024, at 11:07 am PT. Users may experience slow load times and/or the following error message in Canvas: "This website is under heavy load".
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.
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.