Ally 1.34.1 | Release to production 22 August 2019

Updated Features

D2L Brightspace student count

Ally 1.34.1 fixes a bug in the D2L Brightspace integration that caused the student count for a course to always be “0” in the institutional report. This fix does require an additional permission for the Blackboard Ally REST role though.

The following steps should be followed to configure this:

  1. Go to Security and Roles and Permissions in the administrator menu.
  2. Add the following extra permissions under Users to the Blackboard Ally REST role:
    1. View User Enrollments
    2. Search For Student

      If your institution uses a different / custom role for students, select “Search For ” instead.

Ally will only ever retrieve the student count, and not any individual enrollments or individual student information.

Ally 1.34.1 bug fixes & improvements

  • Fixed a bug in the Canvas integration that caused the alternative format download icon to not be visible for files in the Announcements and Discussions tools.