May was all about deepening collaboration in Scholarly’s workflow engine, streamlining data integrations, and putting accessibility front‑and‑center. Below is a quick tour of everything that landed in customer accounts this month. (Missed April’s recap? Catch up here.)

Workflow Engine – Built for Team Reviews

Scholarly's workflow engine powers all sorts of workflows, from promotions to annual evaluations. This month saw some great improvements in functionality and quality-of-life.

• Multiple reviewers per step – Evaluation and promotion workflows can now collect independent responses from several reviewers on the same step, complete with updated diagrams and dashboard cues.

• Cleaner admin views – A redesigned workflow index page separates the cycles you administer, participate in, or are the subject of, so you can jump straight to what matters.

• Fewer clicks, faster edits

  • Pick a default assignee while creating a step.

  • Delete entire evaluation cycles yourself (no more support tickets).

  • Legacy fields were removed, trimming setup time for new workflows.

• Preview anything – Instantly open a step in preview mode—no need to spin up a full test cycle first. It's never been easier to preview a new workflow!

Accessibility & Export Enhancements

Scholarly takes accessibility seriously, and continues to make investments here.

• Added an Accessibility page to our public site, which discusses in detail Scholarly's approach to building an accessible platform. There you can also download Scholarly's latest VPAT.

• Implemented a round of WCAG‑driven UI tweaks (contrast, focus states, ARIA labels).

• Changed the underlying technology we use to generate PDFs; this paves the way for generating accessible PDFs.

• Large Excel exports (e.g., annual faculty reviews) now complete reliably, even with tens of thousands of rows.

Data Integrations & Sync Transparency

• Banner Ethos & Workday – Both connectors moved onto our new sync‑report infrastructure, giving administrators clearer success and failure logs right in the UI.

• Improved our sync engine with Banner Ethos, which can now pull information daily and automatically from Banner.

• Login improvements allow institutions that use employee‑ID‑only credentials to authenticate without extra configuration.

AI Assistant – Sharper Suggestions, Faster Replies

• AI Paste upgraded to a GPT 4.1 model, delivering more accurate citations and noticeably snappier responses.

• Tweaked prompts for AI‑generated letters, improving tone consistency.

• Behind the scenes, the expertise engine auto‑generated 7,000+ new expertise tags, enriching search results across many institutions.

Quality‑of‑Life Polish

• Faculty lists under expertise tags now sort by last name.

• Workflows pages and the dashboard got performance boosts.

• Fixed an issue where a modal would flicker in and out when clicking the browser back button.

• Fixed an issue with editing step due dates.

Enjoy the start of summer. We hope commencements were smooth for everyone. As always, let us know what you think and reach out if you have any questions.