Instructor FAQ
When you first sign into Bruin Learn, you will see a list of the courses on your dashboard. If a course is not listed on your Dashboard, review the instructions in this guide: Managing Courses on your Bruin Learn Dashboard to find your course.
If a course site is missing from the “All Courses” page, speak with your department administrator to ensure your course is correctly mapped to the Registrar’s Schedule of Classes. If your course is listed in the schedule of classes but there is no site in Bruin Learn, please contact bruinlearn-support@it.ucla.edu.
If you are teaching a TUT (Tutorial) or 375 (Practicum) course, these sites must be requested specifically. Please reach out to your Department Administrator to request a site be provisioned.
If a course site is missing from the “All Courses” page, speak with your department administrator to ensure your course is correctly mapped to the Registrar’s Schedule of Classes. If your course is listed in the schedule of classes but there is no site in Bruin Learn, please contact bruinlearn-support@it.ucla.edu.
If you are teaching a TUT (Tutorial) or 375 (Practicum) course, these sites must be requested specifically. Please reach out to your Department Administrator to request a site be provisioned.
To prepare a course site for the upcoming term, you can import a previous course site to the new academic course. To learn more, watch this video: Import your Course to your Academic Course Site.
You can choose to create your syllabus by using the Syllabus tool in Canvas or uploading a syllabus file to your course site. The Canvas Syllabus tool meets accessibility standards and is mobile friendly. To learn more about the Canvas Syllabus tool, review the following information:
Video: Syllabus Overview
Video: Building Your Canvas Syllabus
Guide: Upload your Syllabus to Bruin LearnClick on the Zoom tab in your course site to schedule Zoom meetings. For more information about creating Zoom meetings in Bruin Learn, review the instructions in this guide: Set Up Zoom Meetings in Bruin Learn.
In Bruin Learn, you can add video content to your course using the Rich Content Editor. The Rich Content Editor or RCE allows the user to embed recorded Zoom lectures that are stored in Kaltura, UCLA’s streaming media service, or add links to external video content like YouTube or Vimeo. Please review the following resources for more information:
Embed a Kaltura Video into a Page, Discussion, or Assignment
The Bruin Learn Gradebook is directly associated with the course Assignments tab and is set up as you create new Assignments. Any assignment, discussion, quiz, or graded survey that has a point value will display in the Assignments tab as well as the Gradebook. The order of assignments, quizzes, and discussions in the Assignments tab will appear in the same way in the Gradebook. To learn more about creating and organizing courses, review the following information:
Video: Gradebook Overview (Instructors)
Video: Assignments Overview (Instructors)
Guide: What assignment types can I create in a course?
Guide: How do I create an online assignment?To learn how to prepare final grades in Bruin Learn and how to import grades from Bruin Learn to MyUCLA, review the instructions in this guide: End-of-Term Grading.
Final grades typically need to be submitted via the MyUCLA Gradebook after instruction concludes, but no later than one week after the term concludes. To learn more, review the instructions in this guide: Grade Submission Deadlines.
To learn how to filter the Bruin Learn gradebook and SpeedGrader to grade by course section, review the instructions in this video guide: Grading Sections in Bruin Learn.
TAs have the ability to communicate, collaborate, and grade by section within a larger, multiple-section course in Bruin Learn. This video can help you decide whether a separate TA site is necessary: When to Use a TA Site in Bruin Learn. If your teaching team decides that TAs should have their own site that is separate from the main course, then the instructor of record can create a site specifically for their TAs. To learn how to create a TA site in Bruin Learn, review the instructions in this guide: How do I create a TA Site in Bruin Learn?
You and your enrolled students are automatically added to academic course sites through the Registrar. However, there may be cases where you need to manually add someone to your course site. To learn how to add someone to your course site, review the following information:
As a teacher, how do I add a TA to my course in Bruin Learn?
A collaboration site is a Bruin Learn site that does not include course enrollments from the Registrar. An instructor might request a new Bruin Learn collaboration site to store open educational resources (OERs), for grad students to access important documents related to a particular program, or as a site for prospective students to take an online language placement exam, etc.
To request a collaboration site, please send an email to bruinlearn-support@it.ucla.edu and include the following information: the name for your site and the name(s) of those who should have edit access. The Bruin Learn Center of Excellence can provide training for administering the site and work with you on managing enrollments.
To request a collaboration site, please send an email to bruinlearn-support@it.ucla.edu and include the following information: the name for your site and the name(s) of those who should have edit access. The Bruin Learn Center of Excellence can provide training for administering the site and work with you on managing enrollments.
Academic course sites are created the same week that the schedule of classes for the next term becomes available. Please refer to the Bruin Learn Calendar for exact dates. If you would like to work on your course before then, please use your Sandbox, or contact bruinlearn-support@it.ucla.edu to request a development site to use in the meantime.
Courses taught in CCLE/Moodle over the past three years (Spring 2019 – Summer 2022) have been copied (migrated) into Bruin Learn. For more information on how to access courses copied into Bruin Learn, review the instructions on this page: Migrated Courses.
Courses that have not been copied into Bruin Learn have been archived. To request archived content for any course taught prior to Spring 2019, please complete the Bruin Learn – CCLE Archive Request.
Students lose access to course sites two weeks after the beginning of the following term. If there are students who need extended access to a course site, you can provide extended access by following the instructions in this guide: Course access after a term.
TA FAQ
You have the ability to communicate, collaborate, and grade by section within a larger, multiple-section course in Bruin Learn. This video can help you decide whether a separate TA site is necessary: When to Use a TA Site in Bruin Learn. If your teaching team decides that you should have your own site that is separate from the main course, then the instructor of record can create TA site(s) for your course by following the instructions in this guide: How do I create a TA Site in Bruin Learn? Once they do so, your TA site(s) will appear on your Dashboard.
To learn how to filter the Bruin Learn gradebook and SpeedGrader to grade by course section, review the instructions in this guide: Grading Sections in Bruin Learn.
TA roles in Bruin Learn differ between subaccounts, and in yours, you may not have the ability to create and edit in your Bruin Learn course site. If your professor would like you to do so, they can edit your role to TA Admin or Teacher by reviewing the instructions in this guide: How do I edit user roles in a course?