New Canvas Courseware System is Cut from a Different Cloth Saturday, November 13, 2021
Why is it called Canvas? From the Bruin (on the conversion of course websites to Canvas): UCLA will transition learning management systems to host all courses via Canvas on Bruin Learn by winter. A learning management system is a web-based software that manages course materials and resources for institutions, instructors and students. UCLA will fully transition from CCLE, the current learning management system, in the winter and is currently hosting some fall quarter courses on Canvas, according to the UCLA LMS Transformation website.* --* https://www.lmstransformation.ucla.edu/what-new-ucla-learning-management-systemlms ---
Bruin Learn is built on the Canvas platform but will also include other tools and programs, according to LMS Transformation... Tim Groeling, a professor of communication at UCLA, said in an emailed statement that some professors may need some time to get acquainted with the platform, but the university is providing technical support for faculty during the transition... Groeling added that he is worried some faculty may not be aware of the transition. He said he receives around 100 emails a day, so emailed information from the university is easy to miss. “I’m concerned that faculty putting this off until the last minute will overwhelm any available support,” Groeling said. “I’d suggest faculty get their winter sites set up by no later than finals week this quarter to avoid that sort of crush.” ...
UCLA Faculty Association Blog: 4th Quarter 2021
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