Hypothesis underwent scheduled enhancement on Monday, March 25, 2024. With this change, instructors can develop Hypothesis annotation assignments by importing pages from Canvas.

Bruin Learn / Canvas Scheduled Enhancement underwent scheduled enhancement on Monday, March 25, 2024. The color palette for the Learning Mastery Gradebook will be replaced with one that is colorblind safe.

Bruin Learn / Canvas Scheduled Enhancement underwent scheduled enhancement on Monday, March 25, 2024. With this change, the number of calendars users are able to view at once will increase from 10 to 20.

Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Thursday, April 4, 2024. This new service will greatly facilitate non-academic employee enrollments in staff training sites on Bruin Learn by site administrators/instructors.

Bruin Learn / Canvas Scheduled Enhancement underwent scheduled enhancement on Friday, May 31, 2024. With this update, instructors will be presented with a curated, less cluttered list of tools in any new course sites created going forward.

Bruin Learn / Canvas Scheduled Enhancement underwent scheduled enhancement on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. With this change, students in certain academic units will now have their Bruin Learn user accounts automatically updated with their new unit-assigned email addresses. This ensures they receive notifications from Bruin Learn at the mandated email address, reducing the risk of missed notifications and streamlining administrative tasks for academic units while eliminating extra steps for students.

Bruin Learn / Canvas Scheduled Enhancement underwent scheduled enhancement on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. With this change, AWS Lambda function will be upgraded from Node.js 16 runtime to Node.js runtime version 20.

IAMUCLA Support and the IT Services (ITS) teams will perform a Disaster Recovery (DR) exercise of the UCLA Single Sign-On (SSO) service on Sunday, 3/24/2024 from 1-2 a.m. PT. This is to ensure that critical applications will function as expected during an outage. 

MyUCLA Gradebook underwent scheduled enhancement in February 2024. With this change, instructors will be able to directly authorize the MyUCLA Gradebook to connect with their Bruin Learn course grading information on the Incoming Grades page.

As we progress through the winter quarter, I’d like to share the IT Executive Dashboard and a few notable highlights with you.

We are writing to share that Google has introduced a new model for Google Workspace for Education (GWE) that ends unlimited storage on Nov. 1, 2024, for all educational institutions.

DESCRIPTION: UCLA IT Services — Network Services will be upgrading the code on the campus core routers on Sunday, March 3, 0500-1400. No network interruption is expected during the maintenance as core routers will be upgraded one at a time, and the network traffic will be routed to redundant paths.

Turnitin and Gradescope underwent scheduled maintenance on Saturday, March 16, 2024 from 7:00am – 11:00am PDT. During this time, some Turnitin and Gradescope features were unavailable.

Bruin Learn / Canvas experienced an outage that started on Tuesday, February 13, 2024, at 8:54 am PST and was resolved on Tuesday, February 13, 2024, at 10:23 am PST.

On January 24, 2024, our IT team identified and stopped an illegal intrusion into the Life Sciences Division IT environment. We believe our actions isolated the unauthorized access to the targeted area, which is 1.19% of the campus community. We have engaged a leading cybersecurity firm to assist in our response and notified the FBI. With their assistance, we are conducting a thorough assessment of the incident, including determining the extent of the impact to servers and data.

To kick off the New Year, I’d like to share the IT Executive Dashboard and a few notable highlights.

Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Saturday, February 17, 2024. This update gives instructors the ability to allow Observers, who have read-only access in their courses, to reserve appointment slots. 

Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Saturday, February 17, 2024. This update enables instructors to swiftly and effortlessly transfer practice quizzes, eliminating the need for manual updates to each individual quiz. 

Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Saturday, February 17, 2024. This update provides additional information on specific question types for instructors to evaluate student responses and provide appropriate intervention. 

Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Saturday, February 17, 2024. This update allows admins and instructors to easily download data via CSV for a comprehensive look at quiz effectiveness.