UCLA staff and technologists recently gathered at Royce Hall for the 2025 BruinTech Spring Conference, an energizing day of connection, reflection and shared purpose centered around the theme “Becoming a More Effective Institution,” one of UCLA’s key strategic goals.

Impact will undergo scheduled enhancement from June 20, 2025, to September 15,  2025. With this update, the Impact “Support Center” help menu will be enabled on a pilot basis in Bruin Learn, supplementing existing help options. 

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 on Tuesday, June 24, 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 will undergo scheduled enhancement in Summer 2025. With this update, there will be 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.

Cidi Labs DesignPlus underwent scheduled enhancement on Friday, May 30, 2025. With this update, the DesignPlus New Sidebar will become the default sidebar for Fall 2025 provisioned courses. The legacy DesignPlus Sidebar from Cidi Labs will be retired on December 31, 2025. 

Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Saturday, May 17, 2025. With this update, New Quizzes now allows instructors to add standalone text or prompts that are not linked to specific questions. 

Impact underwent scheduled enhancement on Friday, May 16, 2025. With this update, hovering over the “Require peer reviews” option in Assignment settings will display a pop-up message inviting users to learn more about Peerceptiv.