Winter 2025 End-of-Term Reminders for Faculty

  Grading

For guidance on adjusting the visibility of grades in Bruin Learn, please reference this Hide and Post Grades guide. 

If you plan on sending grades from Bruin Learn to MyUCLA, please review the End-of-Term Grading guide to ensure your Bruin Learn gradebook is set up for a successful transfer to MyUCLA. For in-person help, please attend Bruin Learn Office Hours and/or register for a live training on end-of-term grading:

• • Tuesday | 3/11/2025 | 12pm
  • Thursday | 3/13/2025 | 10am
  • Tuesday | 3/18/2025 | 12pm
  • Thursday | 3/20/2025 | 10am

  Tips for closing out the term

• Winter 2025 course sites will be concluded on April 13, 2025, which means they will no longer be available to Students, Participants, and Observers, and will become view-only for those who have the TA or Designer roles.
  
• Instructors with the Teacher role in the course site will continue to have edit access after April 13 and can extend access to students by following the instructions in How do I extend student access to my course site after the end of a term? Links to an external site..
• If you would like to keep your course site open, you can change the Participation setting from Term to Course, which will allow you to set a different end date for the course site, please refer to this Canvas guide for instructions: How do I change the start and end dates for a course? Links to an external site.
• Please note that you can only make this change before April 13 and that all members of the course site will have continued access until the new end date you selected.
  
  
• You can hide past term courses from your dashboard by un-favoriting them. The How Do I Find My Courses in Bruin Learn Links to an external site. video provides step-by-step instructions for favoriting and unfavoriting courses, to help you access current courses more efficiently.
  
• Archive Winter 2025 messages so you can start the upcoming term with an empty inbox. Find instructions in How do I archive a conversation as an instructor? Links to an external site.
  

  Planning for Spring 2025

• If you are teaching a course this Spring, the following resources can help get you started: 

  • Import Your Course to Your Academic Course Site Links to an external site.
  • Prepare your Bruin Learn Course Site Links to an external site.
  • Readiness & Course Checklists

Additional Resources

• Resources for Faculty
• Resources for Teaching Assistants

Bruin Learn Office Hours

Virtual office hours are available Monday through Friday via Zoom, where a team of instructional designers and Bruin Learn Center of Excellence (CoE) staff can help answer your questions about Bruin Learn and Academic Technology Tools.

Canvas Technical Support

Canvas Technical Support is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.  Click the ‘Help’ link at the bottom of the left-hand blue Bruin Learn navigation menu to your left to find the support options available to you. If you do not see the Help menu, please log in to Bruin Learn, first. 

Issues that require additional work to resolve will be escalated to the Bruin Learn Support team.

Local Support

In addition to contacting support via the "Help" icon in Bruin Learn, students and instructors can get in touch with support staff in their Local Units. Visit the Bruin Learn Local Support Contacts page to find the contact information for your local support team, if available. 

Training Materials

Recorded Webinars

Self-Paced Training

Bruin Learn YouTube Channel Links to an external site.

Live Training 

Register for the live training sessions:

• End-of-Term Grading in Bruin Learn & MyUCLA

Digital Spaces - General Assignment Classroom Audio Visual Support

For assistance with AV in general assignment classrooms, support is available Monday-Friday between 7:30am and 7:00pm in Campbell Hall B125.

For Quarter Loans and Equipment Requests:

• Winter loan microphones and adapters are due for return March 21, 2025.
• To renew your quarter loan microphone for Spring Quarter and confirm compatibility in your new assigned classroom, please contact the AVS Call Center at 310-206-6591 or email avs@ucla.edu.
• USB-C to VGA and USB-C to HDMI adapters are available as quarter loans.
• Please contact your department or fill out and email this PDF Form Links to an external site. to AVS in order to reserve a Spring quarter loan microphone or adapter.

For Classroom Information and Scheduling Classroom Technical Demonstrations:

• Technical demonstration appointments are scheduled before the quarter begins or after Week 1.
• For more information on the technology available in a specific classroom and to request a demo contact us at avs@ucla.edu.

Winter Enhancements

Respondus Enhancement - Renaming Respondus

New Features:

• The Respondus link on the course navigation menu will be renamed from “Respondus LockDown Browser” to “LockDown Browser.
• Allows students to access and take these quizzes seamlessly on their iPads.

Hypothesis Enhancement - Hypothesis “Auto Grading”

New Features:

• Gives instructors the option to automatically calculate grades based on the number of notes students add to a Hypothesis assignment and, if desired, send those grades directly to the Bruin Learn gradebook.

iClicker Enhancement - iClicker Events

New Features:

• Allows instructors with an iClicker account to easily run polls without the need to set up a full iClicker course. 
• Participants don’t need an iClicker account to join; instructors simply share a join code via a link or QR code, and participants can respond using a browser on their phone, tablet, or computer—no app installation required.

Publisher Tools Enhancement - 1.3 Update

• The Bruin Learn publisher integrations for Macmillan, Pearson, and VitalSource will be upgraded from Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) version 1.1 to version 1.3.
• The "Pearson MyLab and Mastering" app will be renamed to "Access Pearson." 
• The "Macmillan Learning" app will no longer appear in the course navigation menu but will remain accessible through the modules index menu and the assignment selection menu.

For information on Winter enhancements, please visit the Center of Excellence News & Updates Page.

Peerceptiv Now Available in Bruin Learn

Peerceptiv is now available in Bruin Learn, offering peer review and team member evaluation tools for enhancing collaboration and learning. Learn more by signing up for training or contact Bruin Learn Support for assistance setting up assignments.

Bruin One Access

Starting Fall 2024, UCLA's Bruin One Access program offers undergraduate students all their required textbooks, courseware, and coursepacks for a flat rate of $129 per quarter. This campus-wide initiative aims to improve student outcomes, lower costs, and promote sustainability. Visit the Bruin One Access website Links to an external site. for more information.

Teaching Assistant (TA) Sites

A new Instructor Hub LTI was developed for Bruin Learn. The initial version focused on Teaching Assistant (TA) Sites, transferring this functionality from the existing MyUCLA web app. TAs, the instructor of record, and sub-account admins can create a companion TA site directly from the main curricular course site on demand.

New Quizzes Resources Hub

The Bruin Learn team has developed the New Quizzes Resource Hub to help instructors and staff learn how to use New Quizzes, a tool for delivering online exams in Bruin Learn. Office hours and live training sessions will be added to the site as they are scheduled.

Bruin Learn Center of Excellence (CoE) Website

Visit the Bruin Learn Center of Excellence (CoE) website for the latest information, tools, services, FAQs, and ways to contact the Bruin Learn CoE.

One of the key features of the new website is the Academic Technology Tools Dashboard which identifies a comprehensive list of educational technology products which are integrated into Bruin Learn or have been requested.