Turnitin and Gradescope will undergo scheduled maintenance on Saturday, August 9, 2025, from 8:00 am – 2:00 pm PTD. During this time, several Turnitin services will be unavailable.

Bruin Learn will undergo scheduled enhancement on Saturday, July 19, 2025. With this update, when the Use Dyslexia Friendly Font option is enabled in User Settings, the Canvas interface and the Rich Content Editor will display text using the OpenDyslexic font by default. 

A few key initiatives currently underway across UCLA’s Digital & Technology Solutions, designed to improve services for students, faculty, and staff

UCLA staff and technologists recently gathered at Royce Hall for the 2025 BruinTech Spring Conference, centered around one of UCLA’s key strategic goals.

Impact will undergo scheduled enhancement from June 20, 2025, to September 15,  2025. 

Kaltura underwent scheduled enhancement on Friday, June 20, 2025. With this update, the Kaltura V7 Player replaced the old V2 Player, bringing several improvements for a better user experience. 

W.W. Norton will undergo scheduled enhancement in Summer 2025. With this update, the Bruin Learn publisher integration for W.W. Norton will be upgraded from Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) version 1.1 to 1.3. 

Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Saturday, July 19, 2025. With this update, there were key updates to the redesigned File page.

Ally underwent scheduled enhancement on Friday, June 20, 2025. With this update, an Ally feature that was not initially enabled during the LMS transformation project is now activated. Enabling the Access Instructor Feedback from the Institution Report" feature allows administrators to open the Instructor Feedback panel directly from the Institutional Report.

Ally underwent scheduled enhancement on Friday, June 20, 2025. With this update, additional Ally features were enabled that were not available when Ally was first launched during the LMS transformation project. The AI Generation of Alternative Descriptions for Images feature provides instructors and administrators with AI-powered suggestions to help them create alternative text for images. 

Ally underwent scheduled enhancement on Friday, June 20, 2025. With this update, additional Ally features were enabled that were not available when Ally was first launched during the LMS transformation project. The “Score Indicators in All Courses for Administrators” feature will allow administrators to see Ally accessibility scores even in courses where Ally is not enabled through the Ally Configuration UI.

Ally underwent scheduled enhancement on Friday, June 20, 2025. With this update, additional Ally features were enabled that were not available when Ally was first launched during the LMS transformation project. The Instructor Feedback for WYSIWYG Content feature provides an accessibility score directly within the Rich Content Editor (RCE), helping instructors identify and fix issues such as low color contrast, missing image descriptions, and missing table headers. 

Ally underwent scheduled enhancement on Friday, June 20, 2025. With this update, additional Ally features were enabled that were not available when Ally was first launched during the LMS transformation project. The Course Accessibility Report scans course materials—including documents, images, and HTML content—and generates an overall accessibility score for the course. 

Turnitin underwent scheduled enhancement during the week of Tuesday, June 17, 2025.  With this update, the “Institution Paper Repository” will be enabled in Turnitin.

Overleaf underwent scheduled enhancement on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. With this update, single sign-on (SSO) issues for Overleaf accounts using personal email addresses will be resolved.

Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Monday, June 16, 2025. With this update, Atomic Search updated from LTI 1.1 to LTI 1.3.

Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Monday, June 16, 2025. With this update, the Collaboration Site Request Form on ServiceNow has been revised to reflect changes in how the Bruin Learn CoE manages, collects information for, and provisions both Collaboration and non-academic Bruin Learn sites.

Impact underwent scheduled enhancement on Monday, May 123, 2025. With this update, anyone in a LifeSci course who has access to the +People button in Bruin Learn will now see a message when attempting to manually add a user to the course site. 

Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. With this update, New Course Analytics is migrating from LTI 1.1 to LTI 1.3.