Release 1 – February 1, 2026

New Features and Enhancements

Cross-Portal 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 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 Analytics and Othot: advanced analytics solutions and data reporting tools.
  • 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.

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

TOEFL Scoring Scale Changes

This enhancement will be automatically available for use in the next few weeks by all CASs accepting unofficial and official TOEFL scores. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact a member of your account team for more information.

Starting January 21, 2026, ETS's TOEFL exam has a new 1-6 scoring scale for each section and overall total score. This new scale is more directly aligned with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). To accommodate this, the following changes were made:

  • CAS Applicant Portal: applicants can report their scores in both the old and new scoring scales in the Standardized Tests section. If available in your CAS, they can continue to send official TOEFL scores to their programs via the CAS TOEFL code.
  • CAS API: the CAS API Application response models (v1 & v2) have been extended with the following two new JSON nodes to support these changes: academicHistory->tests->reported->TOEFL2026 (for applicant-reported tests) and academicHistory->tests->official->TOEFL2026 (for official tests). For more information, including supported properties under each node, see the application response models on the CAS API Swagger page.
  • Liaison Analytics: TOEFL scores on the new scale are available in the existing TOEFL dashboards.
  • Liaison Outcomes: the updated scoring scale is reflected in the existing TOEFL score table. Because of this, you do not need to update data integrations. You should review any score-based filters to accommodate the new scoring scale. Note that updated TOEFL scores will start appearing after March 1.
  • WebAdMIT: a new set of TOEFL-related fields for this new scoring scale is available: Applicant Reported TOEFL Banded, Official TOEFL Banded, and Official TOEFL MyBest Banded. You must add these fields to any place you may already pull in TOEFL fields (e.g., lists, exports, scoring, etc.).

If you have data integrations set up for WebAdMIT or the CAS API, you must review and update them to import the new TOEFL scores into your target system. Be sure to review your target system first so you know what adjustments to make. For WebAdMIT, we recommend adding the new TOEFL fields to your exports. For the CAS API, we recommend mapping the new TOEFL score fields.

Important: when you receive official TOEFL scores taken after January 21, 2026, ETS will provide the historical scale equivalent for only the overall total score (i.e., both a 6 (on the new scoring scale) and 120 (on the old scoring scale)). ETS is not providing the historical scale equivalent for any section scores (i.e., you only get a 4 (on the new scoring scale) for the Reading section). Be sure to review all your templates and imports to accommodate the new scoring scale and capture the data you need.

This release note was updated on March 2, 2026 to specify that TOEFL scores in Liaison Outcomes became available after March 1.

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.

Custom Section Completion Status Now Supported in the CAS API

Custom application sections can now report completion status in the CAS API using a new JSON node customSections. This allows you to clearly see whether custom sections are complete or still need information before an application can be submitted. Note the following:

  • The customSections node has been introduced at the root of each quadrant-level JSON node in the application model (both v1 and v2).
  • The customSections node will contain a list of completion statuses for each custom section.
  • You can associate the custom section completion status with any custom questions belonging to the custom section.
  • The subSectionIdentifier will be included in each new customSection object, allowing you to group the custom section completion status with custom questions belonging to the custom section.

Coming Soon!

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

Event

Date

Details

Shared Lookup Table Updates for Spring 2026

March 2026

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" which are viewable in your CAS's/UniCAS's data dictionary file.

Lookup table change requests can be sent to a member of your account team, who will compile and review these requests. New lookup table values will appear in the CAS Applicant Portal in March 2026 (subject to change).

Visit the Shared Lookup Table Updates page for more information.

CAS 3+ Upgrade

2026

Liaison is excited to announce that in the 2026-2027 application cycle, all of our Centralized Application Services (CAS) will be upgraded to a new, mobile-first, and modern applicant portal that we call CAS 3+. Visit the CAS 3+ Upgrade page to learn more about its key benefits and a preview of the upgraded application.

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