Release 5 – May 31, 2026

A Redesigned UI/UX Beta Experience

The engineering and design team's primary focus this quarter has been to deliver the final features and necessary improvements to our Redesigned Othot Platform. We are pleased to announce that the New Othot Experience will be available shortly following the release for our clients in a beta process. Contact your Client Success Director to learn more about accessing your models in the beta environment.

New Features and Enhancements

• Improved Export Options for Scheduled Sensitivities: this enhancement builds upon the previously released ability to schedule an export of sensitivity jobs by improving the format of the exported sensitivity. Scheduled sensitivity exports now provide the aggregated grid in .csv format, combining multi-row "What If" variables into a single consolidated header row for easier import into other systems.
• Added functionality for File Decryption during automated prediction jobs: this new functionality aligns with client-specific data protocols, requiring additional layers of encryption for file delivery. Othot accepts encrypted files and decrypts them as part of the daily automated prediction process.

Other Backend Enhancements

• Added functionality to manage stuck and queued jobs, allowing Othot teams to more easily identify and clear jobs to recover faster.
• Added functionality for better integration server management to reduce delays.

Enhanced Session Visibility

The information displayed to users assigned to a session has been expanded to clarify schedule details.

1. When session visibility is disabled, scheduled interviewers can still see the session and their assigned applicants on their dashboard. This provides clearer schedules and the ability to hide sessions from unscheduled applicants.

2. On the Sessions page, a lock symbol appears next to a session’s date where the applicant deadline has passed. On its Session Details page, an alert explains this further. This allows program managers to easily identify sessions that applicants can no longer interact with. 

Improved Rank List Functionality

1. Rank lists now occupy an entire page, reducing the need to scroll.
2. You can now manually enter the rank order of each applicant, in addition to dragging and dropping them, for quick and efficient changes.

Required Final Score Comment

When a program manager enters a final score that differs from the average score, an explanation is now required. This helps track why a score was changed, as the Final Interview Score Comment is an exportable field.

Additional Mandatory Room Available

The number of available Required Rooms For All Applicants per session has increased from 4 to 5, enabling the creation of more complex interview schedules.

University Portal: Copy Existing Programs in Configuration Portal

You can now copy an existing program on the Program Confirmation page and use it to build a new program. This enhancement alleviates the need to add additional copies of programs for satellite campuses in ASSIST. Be sure to review every part of the copied program before submitting it for review and approval. Copied programs use the articulation agreement information of the original program.

In Progress Applicant Report Available as XLS and CSV File Type

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.

You can now download In Progress applicant data as both an .xls and .csv file from the In Progress page (by clicking In Progress under the Applicants panel in the Menu Bar or by clicking In Progress from the Designations by Application Status panel on the dashboard). Previously, this was only available as an .xls file. Additionally, both file types will automatically be uploaded to SFTP sites. This enhancement allows you to manage applicant data in the format that best works for your data needs.

Coming Soon: Parent/Guardian One-to-Many Fields in Export Manager

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.

Certain fields in the application allow applicants to enter more than one answer; for example, an applicant can have one experience, five experiences, or more. These are called “one-to-many” fields in WebAdMIT, and when you export these one-to-many fields, the data will appear in repeated columns with numeric suffixes (e.g., experience_name_0, experience_name_1, etc.).

Currently, if an applicant has more than one response for the following fields, the data does not populate in repeated columns as normal one-to-many fields do; instead, only one column of data is populated:

• Parents/Guardians field grouping > County of Legal Residence Code field
• Parents/Guardians field grouping > School Country Code field

Starting in late June 2026, these fields will export correctly as one-to-many fields. If your CAS uses these fields in exports and you previously downloaded this data, you should plan to re-download it to ensure that you are capturing all of the applicant's data.

Note that this data has always appeared correctly when viewing the Applicant Details page or running lists in the List Manager.