Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Wednesday, August 14, 2024. With this update, filtering by term on the Sub-Account Course list now displays only the terms relevant to the sub-account courses. 

Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement from the vendor on Saturday, August 17, 2024. With this update, instructors can disable threaded replies in Discussions. When this setting is enabled, students can respond to the discussion prompt, but others cannot reply to their responses. This allows instructors to restrict discussions to initial responses only, when needed.

Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Friday, August 9, 2024. With this update, the automated scheduled service will only process the delta of course sites that have been published and/or reset since the last time the service ran. This update will not affect end users in any way.

As we approach the end of July, I’d like to share the IT Executive Dashboard and a few notable highlights with you.

Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Saturday, July 20, 2024. With this update, the Publish and Unpublish buttons on the Home page and Course Settings page are redesigned as a drop-down menu.

Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Saturday, July 20, 2024.  With this update, the Inbox/Conversations tool includes an option for instructors and students to set an auto-response for messages.

Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Saturday, July 20, 2024.  With this update, instructors can assign Pages to students and set availability dates in Pages. Additionally, instructors can assign Pages to Mastery Paths.

Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Saturday, July 20, 2024. With this update, instructors can assign ungraded discussions to students and sections in Discussions. Previously, the "Assign to" settings were only available for graded discussions.

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.

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.

As we close the academic year and transition into summer, I’d like to share the IT Executive Dashboard and a few notable highlights with you.

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. 

We are writing to share that Permanent Baseline Quotas have been applied to all UCLA Google Workspace personal accounts and shared drives on June 27, 2024 (with exception to those accounts that were granted quota extension).

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."