Release 8 – August 27, 2023
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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 CAS 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 CAS 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:
- API: a data integration tool.
- CAS Analytics by Liaison and Othot: advanced analytics solutions and data reporting tools.
- CAS Applicant Gateway: a platform for applicants who have already submitted their CAS application to complete and upload additional materials requested by their programs.
- CAS Liaison Letters: a platform for evaluators to submit their letters of recommendation.
- Enrollment Marketing and TargetX: customer relationship management (CRM) systems for student lifecycle management.
- Living Profile: a platform where students can connect their academic pursuits with their career aspirations.
- SlideRoom: a platform for collecting digital portfolios.
- Time2Track: a platform for tracking, verifying, and managing experiences.
Internal-only CAS Custom Questions
This enhancement must be approved by the CAS association or UniCAS client for use in the next cycle. CAS association and UniCAS clients: contact your Account Manager for more information or to enable this feature.
Disclaimer: on rare occasions, a new feature or enhancement may be moved to a future release or otherwise subject to change.
If a CAS has a custom question in the first three quadrants (i.e., Personal Information, Academic History, and Supporting Information) or Extended Profile section, then the question can be configured to be internal only, meaning that that question and its answers will not be sent to other portals such as the CAS API, WebAdMIT, and Outcomes. This enhancement allows CASs to continue to collect data while restricting who can view it. To request reports on the data, contact support.
Analytics by Liaison
You can still access internal-only questions and answers in reports if they are custom questions mapped to Analytics. Check with your account manager for details.
Applicant Portal
Applicants can answer internal-only questions and view their responses in the full application PDFs they download from the Applicant Portal.
CAS API
Internal-only questions and answers are not accessible in the CAS API.
Liaison Outcomes
Internal-only questions and answers are not accessible in Outcomes.
WebAdMIT
Internal-only questions and answers are not accessible in WebAdMIT or the full application PDFs you download from the Applicant Details page.
Annual Fall 2023 Lookup Updates
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 a member of your account team for more information.
Disclaimer: on rare occasions, a new feature or enhancement may be moved to a future release or otherwise subject to change.
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." Periodically, we update these tables to include additional response options.
These lookup table updates impact the following portals, some of which you may use. If you created a "crosswalk" from our portals to your local data in your SIS/CRM, you may need to update this crosswalk for the newly added options. For guidance on optimal implementation of the new values, review the Shared Lookup Table Updates page.