Release 8 – September 8, 2024

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.
• Liaison Letters: 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.

Remove Title/Prefix Field: Updated WebAdMIT, CAS API, and Outcomes Effects

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.

Starting in 2024 Release 7, the Title field was removed from the CAS application in the Create Your Account and Reapplicant pages and the Biographic Information section. Currently, the Title field remains in the CAS API, Liaison Outcomes, and WebAdMIT, but no new applicant data is available. Read below for further updates on these products.

WebAdMIT

Now that Title information is no longer being collected from applicants, starting in your CAS's current, active cycle, any data in the Title field will be removed from WebAdMIT. Then, starting in your CAS's next cycle, the Title field will be removed from WebAdMIT. You will need to update any lists, exports, and other integrations to account for this field removal.

CAS API and Liaison Outcomes

The Title field currently remains in the CAS API and Liaison Outcomes. No new applicant data will be available.

Annual Fall 2024 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.

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.

The new lookup table values include updates to colleges and majors. Review the Shared Lookup Table Updates page for a full list of updates.

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 the optimal implementation of the new values, review the Shared Lookup Table Updates page.

• Analytics by Liaison
• API
• Liaison Outcomes
• WebAdMIT

"Refugee" Removed from List of US Visa Options

This enhancement is automatically available for use by all CASs and participating programs using the standard Visa Information question. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact a member of your account team for more information.

When entering Citizenship Information in the CAS application, applicants with a US Visa can select the type of Visa from a predefined list. The option Refugee was removed from this list, as it is not a valid US Visa type. The correct option, I-94 Refugee, remains available. Additionally, the related help center content was updated to reflect this change.

CAS Applicant Portal

If your CAS uses the standard Visa Information question under the Citizenship Information section, then the option Refugee is no longer available to select from.

CAS API, Liaison Outcomes, and WebAdMIT

Existing applicant data will remain. Moving forward, you may need to update your lists, exports, and integrations to account for this change.

CAS API Enhancements

The following enhancements are automatically available for the CAS API, and no action is required on the part of any school or program. If you have any questions about these features, contact support.

Disclaimer: on rare occasions, a new feature or enhancement may be moved to a future release or otherwise subject to change.

Coming Soon!

Please review the list of upcoming events, including scheduled downtime/maintenance, product updates, and regional training opportunities.