Piazza underwent scheduled enhancement on Friday, September 19, 2025. With this update, the user interface for Piazza will be updated for all Fall ’25 courses, affecting both instructors and students.
Enhancements
Bruin Learn will undergo scheduled enhancement in Summer 2025. With this update, instructors can use differentiation tags to assign specific content to customized groups of students, without those groups being visible to students. Additionally, admins can access these tags through Canvas Data for reporting and analysis.
Impact underwent scheduled enhancement in Fall 2025. With this update, the Impact “Support Center” help menu will be enabled on a pilot basis in Bruin Learn, supplementing existing help options.
Bruin Learn underwent scheduled enhancement on Friday, September 19, 2025. With this update, Instructure is changing how Canvas/Bruin Learn interacts with YouTube content. Starting September 22, 2025, YouTube videos, whether newly added or already embedded in Canvas/Bruin Learn, may begin showing advertisements.
Bruin Learn underwent scheduled enhancement on Friday, September 19, 2025. With this update, when the Discussion Checkpoints feature is enabled, instructors can set multiple due dates within a graded discussion to support different stages, such as the initial post and follow-up replies.
Impact underwent scheduled enhancement on Thursday, September 18, 2025. With this update, all new undergraduate, graduate, and transfer students at UCLA will see a message on their Bruin Learn dashboard explaining how course visibility/behavior works.
Peerceptiv underwent scheduled enhancement on Tuesday, September 16, 2025. With this update, sections can now be synced from Bruin Learn to Peerceptiv (peer review tool) and will automatically update as section enrollments change.
Bruin Learn underwent scheduled enhancement on Monday, September 15, 2025. With this update, Sub-Account Admins in Bruin Learn will now have the “Manage LTI - delete” and “Manage LTI - edit” permissions enabled at the root account level, cascading down through all sub-accounts.
Turnitin underwent scheduled enhancement on Monday, September 15, 2025. With this update, starting in Fall 2025, instructors can enable Turnitin’s Enhanced Similarity Report, which features a redesigned, more accessible, and intuitive interface along with new match type categorizations.
Impact underwent scheduled enhancement on Monday, September 15, 2025. With this update, Turnitin users will see a pop-up message during the Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 terms informing them that the Similarity Report has been updated and is available to use.