Bruin Learn underwent scheduled enhancement on Thursday, August 20, 2026. With this update, three new administrative roles are now available in Bruin Learn: View Courses Change Logs Role, View Courses List Role, and Update User Profile Pictures Role.
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iClicker will undergo scheduled enhancement in Fall 2026. With this update, iClicker instructors can use Bluetooth proximity as an attendance check-in method to help confirm that students are physically present in the classroom.
Perusall undwerwent scheduled enhancement on Wednesday, August, 12, 2026. With this update, grades and comments entered in Perusall can be synced to SpeedGrader in Bruin Learn.
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.
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 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 on Tuesday, September 22, 2026. With this update, the “Peer Review Allocation and Grading” feature option will be enabled for all of Bruin Learn.
Piazza will undergo scheduled enhancement during the week of Monday, September 14, 2026. With this update, Piazza has introduced two AI-powered summarization features that can be enabled for courses.
Ally will undergo scheduled enhancement during the week of Monday, September 14, 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.
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.
Bruin Learn / Canvas will undergo 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 Learn / Canvas will undergo 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 will undergo 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.
Perusall underwent scheduled enhancement on Tuesday, July 7, 2026. With this update, instructors can generate Discussion Summaries from the assignment menu on the Perusall dashboard.
Perusall underwent scheduled enhancement on Tuesday, July 7, 2026. With this update, instructors can enable Prompt or Quiz Checkpoints in Perusall social annotation activities.
Ally underwent scheduled enhancement in Summer 2026. With this update, the redesigned Ally Usage Report makes it easier for administrators to understand how students and instructors are using Ally.
Cidi Labs underwent scheduled enhancement in Summer 2026. With this update, Cidi Labs TidyUP is now integrated with Bruin Learn to help instructors identify, organize, and remove unused or outdated course content.
iClicker underwent scheduled enhancement in Summer 2026. With this update, iClicker instructors can use Web Polling to run classroom polling activities directly from the iClicker instructor website, providing a browser-based alternative to the iClicker Cloud desktop application.
iClicker underwent scheduled enhancement in Summer 2026.With this update, iClicker introduces a Late Attendance Status that provides more granular attendance tracking beyond the existing Present, Absent, and Excused statuses.