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Release 3 – April 4, 2021

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.

Letters by Liaison Enhancements

The following enhancements are now available in Letters by Liaison. All enhancements are automatically available to all CASs and participating programs using Letters by Liaison. 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.

    508 Compliance Updates

Letters by Liaison’s interface is updated to meet 508 and WCAG 2.0 compliance standards. These updates include improved color contrast, field spacing, clearer field outlines, navigation, compatibility with screen readers, etc.

    Updated Placeholder Text

The placeholder text for the Your Name fields that appear when creating or editing your account was updated to be more inclusive. Previously, the default text was "Mr. John Doe, Sr."

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New Documentation

Please review the list of new reference guides, all accessible in the Admissions by Liaison Help Center.

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Migrating Review Form Responses to Custom Properties

We are building an Advanced Configuration Library for Admissions by Liaison. This library provides guidance to help you build custom configurations in the software. As it is built out, you'll find more options that you can implement to enhance the way Admissions data is presented, exported, or filtered. 

Our first configuration, Migrating Review Form Responses to Custom Properties, helps you to display reviewer's results more prominently. You can also use this configuration to export reviewer's responses out of the software.

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