Bruin Learn Bruin Learn News & Updates for Fall 2025 Middle-of-Term

Instructor Checklist

FAQs About Quizzes

Planning for Winter 2026

Winter 2026 course sites are visible on your Bruin Learn dashboard. The following resources can help you build your course sites:

Video series: Prepare your Bruin Learn Course Site
Add and Organize Content

Additional Resources

Reminder to Submit Winter 2026 Course Reserves Requests

Instructors: Remember to submit all Winter 2026 Course Reserves requests to UCLA Library by Monday, December 1, 2025. Please see the UCLA Library Leganto Guide for further information on Course Reserves, step-by-step instructions on submitting reading lists, and contact information for further assistance.

Office Hours, Support, and Training

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

'Help' icon in the Canvas/Bruin Learn global navigation 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

Live Training

Register for the live training sessions:

Create Engaging and Interactive Reading Assignments Using Social Annotation Tools
Grade Handwritten Assignments Quickly with Gradescope
Assignments and Grading for TAs

What's New and Enhanced

Fall Enhancements

Ally Enhancement - Accessibility

New Features:

The Course Accessibility Report scans course materials - including documents, images, and HTML content - and generates an overall accessibility score for the course that instructors can view.
The Instructor Feedback for WYSIWYG Content feature provides an accessibility score directly within the Rich Content Editor (RCE), helping instructors identify and fix issues such as low color contrast, missing image descriptions, and missing table headers.
The Score Indicators in All Courses for Administrators feature allows administrators to see Ally accessibility scores even in courses where Ally is not enabled through the Ally Configuration UI.
The AI Generation of Alternative Descriptions for Images feature provides instructors and administrators with AI-powered suggestions to help them create alternative text for images.
The Access Instructor Feedback from the Institution Report feature allows administrators to open the Instructor Feedback panel directly from the Institutional Report, allowing them to view and remediate files without needing to navigate into individual courses.

Kaltura Enhancement - V7 Player Update

New Features:

Kaltura V7 Player will replace the old V2 Player, bringing several improvements for a better user experience.
Improved user experience includes faster load times, improved video support, integrated transcript, chapter markers, and automatic picture-in-picture mode.

Hypothesis Enhancement - Image Annotations

New Features:

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.
Enables more focused discussions on visual elements such as data, diagrams, or scanned handwriting.

Peerceptiv Enhancement - Sections

New Features:

Sections can now be synced from Bruin Learn to Peerceptiv (peer review tool) and will automatically update as section enrollments change.
Allows instructors to assign Peerceptiv peer review activities within sections, ensuring students only review work from peers within their own section.
Instructors can send groups created with the Group Formation feature back to their Bruin Learn course site.

Turnitin Enhancement - Enhanced Similarity Report

New Features:

Instructors can enable Turnitin’s Enhanced Similarity Report, which features a redesigned, more accessible, and intuitive interface along with new match type categorizations.
Improved user experience includes an accessible design, a layout reimagined for clarity and focus, actionable insights to support targeted feedback, and ongoing innovation to meet evolving needs.

Panopto Enhancement - BruinCast Transition

New Features:

Instructors and students will access BruinCast lecture capture through the dedicated BruinCast Media tab in Bruin Learn (replacing the Media Gallery).
To enable BruinCast Media in a course, instructors should submit a request to bruincast@ucla.edu.

For more information on enhancements, please visit the Center of Excellence News Page.

YouTube Embedded Videos in Canvas May Display Ads Starting September 2025

Starting September 22, 2025, Instructure is changing how Canvas/Bruin Learn interacts with YouTube content. YouTube videos, whether newly added or already embedded in Canvas/Bruin Learn, may begin showing advertisements. These ads are managed by YouTube and cannot be turned off within Canvas.

To ensure a cleaner, ad-free viewing experience for students, we recommend instructors embedding YouTube videos through Kaltura. This method allows instructors to continue using YouTube content in their courses while preventing ads from appearing in Canvas/Bruin Learn.

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.

REMINDERS ARCHIVE

All reminders are saved under the Start and End of Term Reminders module of Bruin Learn Resources.