Release 10 – October 29, 2023

Learn More About Your Applicants with Pixel Tracking

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.

Pixel tracking, also known as marketing pixels, refers to small pieces of code that are embedded into a website or an email. These pixels are used to track and collect data about user behavior, such as clicks, views, and conversions. This data can then be used to optimize marketing campaigns, improve user experience, and personalize content.

With this enhancement, you can use Pixel tracking to gain more insight into applicants to your program or organization. You can insert your tracking ID into the Configuration Portal to establish standard tracking pixels from the major ad providers including Google, Meta, and LinkedIn.

These pixels will be placed on the Add Programs page (where applicants click View Details) and the program homepage instructions in the Program Materials section.

Configuration Portal

With this program-level enhancement, an Edit Pixel Tracking button appears on the Branding page of the Configuration Portal. This allows you to add one or more tracking IDs for each program.

 New CAS Configuration Portal Help Center

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.

The existing CAS Configuration Portal help content has been migrated to the new CAS Configuration Portal Help Center. This help center includes all the existing documentation, videos, and guides for the CAS Configuration Portal, and now lives separately from other product help centers. 

 Applicant Profile Pictures Now Available in Outcomes

If your program works with the Student Portal in Liaison Outcomes, your applicants can upload photos of themselves in the My Profile section. Alternatively, you can upload these photos on the applicant's contact record.

Add Photo option on the My Profile page of the Student Portal

Upload Profile Picture option on a contact record

In both cases, the photo appears on their corresponding applications.

 Removed Race and Ethnicity from CAS Application PDFs

If your organization receives full application PDFs from a Centralized Application Service (CAS) within Outcomes, starting with the 2023-24 cycle, these PDFs have been adjusted to no longer include race and ethnicity. Where allowed by your Role, race and ethnicity data is still available onscreen within the Personal Information section.

Email

Version 2311.1

• Twitter logos in the social media widget for Email Templates have been updated to reflect the new ‘X’ branding.

Events

Version 2311.2

• A new Events setting, Maintain URL Parameters, enables URL parameters to be maintained throughout the session when a student navigates to the Appointment Scheduler through a link with parameters. For more information, see Appointment Scheduler Settings.

Retention

Version 2311.0

• A new field, Action Item Notes, stores notes entered in the Student Success Center, replacing the Details field.

TX Forms

Base Version 2311.0

• When the 'Answer list' is empty, you can choose a value for Autocomplete fields. The answer list defaults to the Name field for new mappings.

TargetX Resolved Defects

Events (Version 2311.2)

• (CL-2024) Event registration completes without hanging or generating errors. Previously, registration for events would sometimes result in the system hanging and generating the error "attempt to de-reference a null object."
• (CL-2046) Appointment Scheduler blocks availability for Holidays. Previously, Holidays were not blocking appointment availability.
• (CL-2048) Appointment Scheduler displays availability for all days in a configured slot. Previously, availability for the last day in a slot was not displayed.
• (CL-2049) Appointment Scheduler prevents users from scheduling appointments for ‘exceptions’ to availability. Previously, time slots that were part of an availability ‘exception’ were available to users.
• Note: If you're utilizing Form Assembly for event registration, specifically for events with a Maximum Attendee limit and no Allowed Guests, there has been a recognized problem in earlier versions of Event Registration and Form Assembly forms, causing the registration page to become unresponsive. This issue has been addressed in the November '23 release. It is strongly advised to upgrade to this version to fix the problem and ensure smooth registration processes.

Online Application (Version 2311.0)

• (CL-1991) Recommendation forms with multiple attachments display all file upload fields. Previously, recommendation forms would not display all the file upload fields when a form contained multiple attachments.
• (CL-1997) Using the ‘enter’ key advances the user to the next card in the application. Previously, using the ‘enter’ key on the online application would cause the application to scroll up.
• (CL-2000) Picklist options based on Option Groups using an autocomplete field will display the correct list of values. Previously, picklist values were not displaying correctly when the autocomplete field value changed.
• (CL-2007) Reusable forms that are hidden will not add additional space between cards. Previously, when a hidden reusable form was included on an Application, additional gray space was visible between cards.

Retention (Version 2311.0)

• (CL-1986) The Notes field on Advising records in the Student Success Center correctly wraps text. Previously, notes would wrap text in the middle of words.
• (CL-2006) Notes are added to the correct student record. Previously, when multiple notes were created for students, the second note would display on the record for the first student.

TX Forms (Base Version 2311.0)

• (CL-1993) Autocomplete fields pre-fill and display the value from the field set in the Answer list. Previously, autocomplete fields displayed the Account Name.

Updated Activity Details Report

To be released the week of November 7, 2023: The downloadable version of the Activity Details report has been updated to include Course, Approval Status, and Tags. Institutional Administrators, Supervisors, and Faculty Members can download the Activity Details report as a .csv file, for each of their students.

Ability to Copy Interviews, Assignments, and Scoring Models

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.

To build new items in WebAdMIT more efficiently (e.g., Exports, Lists, and Work Groups), you have the option to copy an existing template. This functionality has been expanded to include Interviews, Assignments, and Scoring Models.

This enhancement was inspired by user feedback.

Updated In Progress Applicants Report

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.

In WebAdMIT, you can download a report that includes information about your In Progress applicants. Available for CASs with a partial view of In Progress applicants, this report includes information about applicants who have selected your program but have not yet submitted to it. With this enhancement, a new column, designation_program_lookup_id, has been added to the report. This column allows you to associate applicants to each program via the Program ID rather than the Program Name or Label.

For a preview of the new file, review the Updated In Progress Report with Program Plan Field or Updated In Progress Report without Program Plan Field sample files.