Release 3 – April 4, 2021
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New Features and Enhancements
CAS Application Enhancements
Liaison’s suite of portals work together to help you collect and manage applications. The CAS application, also referred to as the Applicant Portal, is the system where applicants find and apply to your programs. You receive these applications in WebAdMIT or Liaison Outcomes, where you perform your review processes. The appearance of your program and your requirements are customized in the Configuration Portal, where you establish the program-specific elements that your applicants will interact with. Additionally, your program may use one or more of the following tools and platforms:
- Analytics by Liaison and Othot: advanced analytics solutions and data reporting tools.
- API: a data integration tool.
- Applicant Gateway: a platform for applicants who have already submitted their CAS application to complete and upload additional materials requested by their programs.
- Enrollment Marketing and TargetX: customer relationship management (CRM) systems for student lifecycle management.
- Letters by Liaison: a platform for evaluators to submit their letters of recommendation.
- SlideRoom: a platform for collecting digital portfolios.
- Time2Track: a platform for tracking, verifying, and managing experiences.
Shared Lookup Table Updates for Spring 2021
This enhancement is automatically available for use by all CASs and participating programs. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact your Account Manager for more information.
Many fields in the Applicant Portal contain predefined answer values that applicants can select; for example, the Country and County fields both have predefined answer values. These values are housed in shared “lookup tables.” In this release, new values were added. You can view all updates on the Shared Lookup Table Updates for Spring 2021 page.
Applicant Portal
Applicants can now select the new answer options.
Admissions by Liaison, Analytics by Liaison, API, and WebAdMIT
You can view and extract the new answer options in these portals.
TOEFL MyBest Scores
This enhancement will be automatically available for use by all CASs and participating programs in the next cycle. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. If a CAS association or UniCAS client wants the enhancement available in a current cycle, contact your Account Manager.
Liaison now receives TOEFL MyBest scores directly from ETS. MyBest scores—sometimes generically referred to as superscores—are the combination of an applicant’s best scores for each test section from all of their valid TOEFL scores in the last 2 years.
Applicant Portal
There are no changes to the processes for self-reporting test scores or ordering official test scores.
WebAdMIT
You can view scores in the Standardized Tests panel of the Applicant Details page. Additionally, you can view scores in the Full Application PDF under the Documents panel of the Applicant Details page. All TOEFL iBT score reports sent after August 1, 2019, will include the applicant's MyBest scores as well as the individual scores from each test date.
WebAdMIT API
You can extract this data.
CAS API Enhancements
The following enhancements are now available in the CAS API. All enhancements are automatically available to all CASs and participating programs using the CAS API. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. If you have any questions about these features, contact your Account Manager or support.
Replay APIs
A new Replay resource is now available that enables a user-application to replay all data and documents in scope of an existing subscription. You can use the following API endpoints:
- POST replays: start a replay job
- GET replays: return a list of replay jobs
- GET replays/{id}: return the details of a replay job
- DELETE replays/{id}: terminate a replay job
For more information, visit the Replay resource on the CAS API technical reference page.
New Subscription API Tokens
The Subscription API destination path template now supports the following new tokens:
- <collegeName>
- <collegeAttendedId>
- <ceebCode>
- <ficeCode>
- <ipedsCode>
- <mdbCode>
- <evaluationServiceName>
- <vendorTranscriptEvaluationsId>
- <evaluatorFirstName>
- <evaluatorLastName>
- <evaluatorEmail>
- <evaluatorOrg>
- <evaluatorTitle>
Note: NULL values are replaced with [token]_missing.
For more information, visit the Subscription resource on the CAS API technical reference page.
Short Name Feature Includes Export Code
The CAS API Short Name feature now includes the question’s export code in the CSV file. The feature includes the following data for each custom question:
- <shortfieldname>
- <shortfieldname>_code
- <shortfieldname>_createdDate
- <shortfieldname>_updatedDate
For more information, visit the Application resource on the CAS API technical reference page.
New isRequired and isRequested Properties for Applicant-Uploaded Documents
The CAS API application response model now includes an isRequired and isRequested indicator for the following applicant-uploaded documents:
- attachments
- supplementalAttachments
- gatewayAttachments
New Properties for Organization and Program APIs
The CAS Organization and Program APIs now include the following properties:
GET Organizations
- etsCode
GET Program, GET Programs/Config
- orgId
- orgName