Notes de la versió d’Ally per a LMS

Ally 2.12.4 | Release to production: March 5, 2025

Alternative Formats Now Available in D2L Brightspace New Learner Experience View

Ally Alternative Format icons are now supported within the D2L Brightspace New Learner Experience for students. Students will see a new Ally Alternative formats icon when they open the file view from the content module if the New Learner Experience is enabled. This additional support helps to expand student options and allows them to take advantage of the flexibility and choice offered by Ally's Alternative Formats.

Image 1: File view with Alternative Formats available.

This support is specific to the New Learner Experience and does not impact other New Content Experiences within Brightspace. Future support of other new experiences will continue to be considered separately as part of the product roadmaps.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed an issue where in some cases the Ally tooltips in the Institutional Report remained visible underneath the report results at the bottom of the screen.

Ally 2.12.3 | Release to production: February 27, 2025

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed an issue in Moodle where instructors were sometimes presented with a "Perfect" message without being able to fix the image description despite it being flagged as an issue in the Instructor Feedback panel.
• Fixed an issue in Blackboard where the Ally score indicator was removed when instructors updated the title while in edit mode within the Blackboard Content Designer.
• Implemented D2L Integration backend improvements to upgrade API versions for Learning Platform(lp) and Learning Environment(le) components.

Ally 2.12.2 | Release to production: February 13, 2025

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed an issue in the Institutional Report that sometimes caused the Term dropdown to not be selectable by the user.
• Fixed a display issue where the error message for unsupported files was extending beyond the boundaries of the Instructor Feedback panel.
• Fixed an issue in Moodle where images in a page were not displayed in the Instructor Feedback Preview when accessed via the Course Accessibility Report.

Ally 2.12 | Release to production: January 30, 2025

Alternative Formats for Video Studio Videos within Blackboard

Learners now have the ability to download Alternative Formats for Video Studio videos within Blackboard Documents when using the Ally Alternative Formats feature. When enabled by the Administrator, students see the Video as a valid file type to download a variety of Alternative Formats based on the transcript of the video when navigating through the Alternative Formats menu for Blackboard Documents.

Image 1: Alternative Formats available for Video

Administrators

Administrators configure this through the Ally Admin Configuration console to enable the ability to download alternative formats for Video Studio videos.

Image 2: Ally Configuration screen with feature defaulted as "off"

Note: The feature is automatically configured as "off" by default in the Ally Admin console.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed an accessibility issue where "Close" was not properly underlined on hover within the Instructor Feedback.
• Fixed an issue within Ally Configuration where the Disable and Enable and All Terms button arrows were not visible when button was selected.
• Fixed an issue in Blackboard where the Instructor Feedback flows for WYSIWYG content did not consistently mention table headings missing content as the next item to address after the instructor has fixed another issue.
• Fixed an issue in Blackboard where the Instructor Feedback Preview window would sometimes timeout and require reloading the browser tab.
• Fixed a browser state issue in Blackboard where Instructors would sometimes see multiple Ally score indicators on one WYSIWYG item if they had opened multiple courses the same browser session.
• Fixed an issue where the Course Accessibility Report score appeared out of sync from the live Instructor Feedback for fixes applied to WYSIWYG content with empty headings.
• Moodle 4.4 plugins have been updated and made available.

Ally 2.11.1 | Release to production: January 13, 2025

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed an issue within D2L Brightspace where instructors could not see the Ally Score Indicators when editing supported WYSIWYG conflict due to a conflict with TinyMCE versions. Note that this does not apply to New Content Experience.
• Fixed an issue where the fields used to calculate totals for "Used AI for Alt Text Suggestion" and "Used AI but Alt Text was altered" in Ally Usage Report were not being set with a valid value for images embedded within Rich Content.
• Fixed an issue within the Ally Admin configuration tool where the button for "Disable/enable all existing courses" was clickable outside of the element.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Ally from displaying the correct heading options in the dropdown when applying a Quick Fix for the "Heading do not follow a logical order" issue within the Instructor Feedback guidance panel.