2026 Release Notes

As part of our continued effort to provide more granular levels of control for administrators looking to manage the PDF remediation experience for Instructors, a new feature flag is available in the Ally Configuration options that allows the Library Reference workflow to be turned off.

Administrators can now turn off the Library Reference feature to remove the instructor's ability to add Library References to PDFs when the original file is unavailable while working through various PDF-specific issues.  This additional layer of control will help align this feature with institutional preferences and processes and provides additional flexibility when determining how best to manage fixing PDFs at scale.

Image 1: New Feature Flag within the Ally Configuration Options

Administrators can find this new feature flag within the Features tab in the Ally Configuration tool listed under Library reference.

As part of our ongoing commitment to instructor efficiency and clarity in reporting, the Ally reports will no longer consider UNSAFE_HTML files as part of the course content for Blackboard integrations.

Image 1: Course Report with UNSAFE_HTML included to show past behavior.

As of this release, UNSAFE_HTML files automatically created in the content folder when using HTML snippets inside a Blackboard Document will be filtered out of the Institutional and Course reports.  Previously, these files would show in the report but instructors were not able to fix the identified issues for missing language and title and often turned to other workarounds to remove these files from the course to remove them from the reports.

As part of a future release, we will look to avoid processing these files entirely when onboarding a course to help improve general performance and scanning.

Instructors fixing PDFs with missing languages in the Ally Instructor Feedback Quick fix can now benefit from the language being detected and preselected in the drop down to avoid additional scrolling while saving time when fixing this common issue.

Ally’s built-in language detection will analyze the PDF to determine the appropriate language where possible. If no language is detected, instructors can still select one manually to apply the fix and have Ally save the change to the PDF as expected.

Image 1: Add Language Quick Fix with English selected

As part of Ally’s ongoing support for Moodle, the Ally plugins for Moodle 5.1 are available. Additional details about Ally’s support for Moodle can be found within the Ally Moodle Configuration Documentation.