Adding Content to Bruin Learn

Adding Content to Bruin Learn

(For MSOL, please visit https://help.seas.ucla.edu/portal/en/kb/articles/adding-content-to-bruin-learn-msol instead.)

This guide provides one specific method to help you set up your site content quickly using the SEAS course template. To learn about all other options and features, visit https://bruinlearn.ucla.edu/courses/288.

Engineering courses are automatically assigned the SEAS course template. There are other UCLA templates that you may switch to.

The rest of this page describes the 3 STEPS on how to use the SEAS course template to update your course content.

STEP 1 - update Syllabus
STEP 2 - update Home
STEP 3 - update Modules (course content)

Before you begin, login to Bruin Learn. 

STEP 1 - update Syllabus

  1. At your course's Home, click "Syllabus" in the "Quick Links" table (or in the course navigation menu) and click "Edit" at top-right
  2. Syllabus options:
    • Option 1: Update the default SEAS syllabus template (example)
    • Option 2: Use your PDF or Word document: first remove** the default syllabus and then follow how to embed PDF or Word document within a Canvas page
    • Option 3: Use your Google doc: first remove** the default syllabus and 1) get the embed code of your google Doc, 2) switch to the HTML Editor, 3) paste the embed code and save
    • Option 4: Hybrid - remove the content above the section "University Policies and Support for Students" and embed your PDF/Word/Google above this section
**To remove to default syllabus, edit the syllabus and click the Edit tab (above the edit box) and choose "Select all", then hit the DEL key.  

STEP 2 - update Home

  1. At your course's Home, click** the "Edit" link at the top
  2. Using the Rich Content Editor, update the information in the instructor/TA tables
  3. Table row operations: 
    • To add a row:
      1. Click in any cell in the row that you want the new row to be added before or after
      2. Click on "insert row before" icon (3rd icon in the image) or "insert row after" icon (4th icon in the image )
    • To delete a row:
      1. Click in any cell in the row that you want to delete
      2. Cllick on "delete row" icon (5th icon in the image)
  4. If you need to update the items in the Quick Links table (each "Week #" links to a module), follow the same table row operations above.

**To use Modules as Home page instead, click "Choose Home Page" in the right column, select "Course Modules", and Save.

STEP 3 - update Modules

Visit https://help.seas.ucla.edu/portal/en/kb/articles/add-item-to-module.

Don't forget to publish your course when it's ready.