Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Monday, September 14, 2026. With this update, Customizable Dashboard for Learners introduces customizable, student-focused dashboard widgets that provide a more personalized and actionable starting point in Canvas.

Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Monday, September 14, 2026. With this update, Instructure is migrating all Impact accounts to a new platform that delivers a more streamlined, intuitive, and feature-rich experience.

Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Monday, September 14, 2026. With this update, when the Notebook feature option is enabled, students can highlight course content, mark information as Important or Unclear, add notes directly within course pages, and organize all of their entries from a dedicated Notebook page in Course Navigation.

Bruin Lean / Canvas will undergo scheduled enhancement during the week of Monday, September 14, 2026. With this update, WondaVR, an immersive learning platform for language-learning simulations and virtual learning experiences, will be integrated into the Humanities sub-account in Bruin Learn. 

Ally underwent scheduled enhancement on Tuesday, September 15, 2026. With this update, Ally is introducing a new PDF Auto Tagging Quick Fix that allows instructors to add structural tags to untagged PDFs directly from the Ally Instructor Feedback panel.

Piazza underwent scheduled enhancement on Monday, September 14, 2026. With this update, Piazza has introduced two AI-powered summarization features that can be enabled for courses.

Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Monday, September 14, 2026. With this update, the “Peer Review Allocation and Grading” feature option will be enabled for all of Bruin Learn. 

Bruin Learn / Canvas underwent scheduled enhancement on Tuesday, September 22, 2026. With this update, a new setting, “Restrict view of quantitative data,” will be available to instructors in Bruin Learn course sites. The setting is disabled by default.

Bruin Learn / Canvas will undergo scheduled enhancement in Fall 2026. With this update, Panda Bot will be available to all users through the Bruin Learn Help menu, providing an immediate entry point for Tier 1 support.

Bruin Learn / Canvas will undergo scheduled enhancement in Fall 2026. With this update, the Instructor Hub Tool introduces new self-service functionality that allows faculty, TAs, and administrators to unofficially cross-list and de-cross-list TA sites directly during provisioning.