Bruin Learn underwent scheduled enhancement on Friday, July 18, 2025. With this update, when attempting to cross-list a course through the Canvas UI, users will see a detailed message explaining the impact of the action. 

Bruin Learn underwent scheduled enhancement on Wednesday, July 2, 2025. With this update, instructors can enable the Detect Multiple Sessions setting in New Quizzes to track if students access a quiz from multiple devices or browsers. 

Hypothesis underwent scheduled enhancement on Wednesday, June 25, 2025. With this update, the Hypothesis social annotation tool in Bruin Learn now supports image annotation. Users can create area selections or pins over images to indicate the specific part of a document their annotation references. 

Earlier this week, a Bruin Post was shared about the One IT initiative, an important step in advancing Goal 5 of the UCLA Strategic Plan.

The Smart Repository streamlines AV/IT so teaching takes the spotlight, not troubleshooting.

DTS is driving innovation, service, and collaboration through unified digital leadership.

Sharing a few key updates that reflect the momentum we are building, together with our campus partners

Starting August 18, 2025, Pantheon will begin upgrading all hosted sites to PHP Runtime Generation 2 (Gen 2). This is a significant infrastructure change that may cause disruptions to sites hosted on Pantheon if not tested in advance. Site administrators will need to either test the upgrade, or opt out by August 17, 2025. 

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

Bruin Learn underwent 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. 

The AI Innovation Initiative is powering the next era of higher ed.

Facing fast-moving wildfires, UCLA used DTS-built dashboards to support those at risk.

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

Faster response times and more efficient IT workflows through scalable AI tools.

UCLA Extension is using OpenAI to advance technical training and engineering career pathways.

UCLA Career Center pilots with OpenAI to expand access to tailored career guidance.

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

A redesigned job site and new tools make it easier to connect Bruins with opportunity.

Powered by Canvas, Bruin Learn is reshaping instruction and student engagement.

Technology should simplify how we work, learn, and collaborate—not create barriers.