v1.19.14 — File uploads and rich text on course units, and Discovery Agents that check your drafts

Course units can now hold an uploaded file

Until now, a course unit's video, image, or document block only worked as a link — an instructor building a course from files on their own computer had nowhere to put them. A unit can now take an uploaded PDF, Word doc, image, or video directly, alongside the existing link-based blocks. Folio checks the real file content to confirm what it is rather than trusting the file extension, and stores it privately, the same way source PDFs already work.

Rich text, with tables, for course unit text

A course unit's text content block was a plain text box — no bold, no lists, no way to lay out a table. It's now a small rich-text editor: bold, italic, lists, links, and tables, kept deliberately simple rather than pulling in the full document editor's citation and figure tooling, which a course unit doesn't need.

An instructor can pull the authorship report while grading

Grading a Classroom submission, an instructor previously had no way to see a submission's authorship report without asking the student to export it themselves. A Report action now sits in the roster next to Read, DOCX, and Verify, so an instructor deciding a grade — or looking into a dispute — can pull it directly.

Discovery Agents checks findings against your drafts automatically

Discovery Agents could already tell you a new paper was related to one of your drafts, but not how — you had to open it and click "Check vs work" yourself. The scheduled run now asks that question for you: for the findings that match a draft, it judges whether the paper supports, challenges, or is merely related to your argument, and that verdict is what the briefing leads with, on the finding's card, and in the briefing email — with links to both the paper and the draft it bears on.

Also new

• Arabic-language scholarship is easier to find in Search. OpenAlex, Crossref, and DOAJ all report a result's language, but Folio Search was discarding it. That signal now carries through, so the existing language badge and "Arabic only" filter actually populate for results from all three sources — DOAJ in particular indexes a large Arabic open-access corpus that was previously invisible.
• An institution gets warned, never blocked, if its brand colors are hard to read. Saving a tenant's brand or accent color now checks WCAG contrast and shows an inline note if the color would be hard to read against the app background — the save still goes through, so a color that fails the check just gets a heads-up instead of getting silently rejected or silently shipped unreadable.

Fixed

• A course's curriculum check now matches a required course correctly across terms. Completing a later term's offering of a required course previously didn't satisfy the requirement, because each term's offering is its own database row — the check now matches by course code, not just one specific row.
• The public transcript page now themes correctly in dark mode. The verified band at the top was still painted with light-mode colors regardless of theme; it now matches the same public /verify page, which already got this fix.
• The pricing page announces its comparison and disclosure state to screen readers, not just visually.
• A /scales page's "verified" byline no longer flickers between two dates on load, the same timezone-hydration class of fix already applied to search, documents, help, and the blog.