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.

As we journey toward the end of the academic year, I’d like to share the IT Executive Dashboard and a few notable highlights with you.