Release 2 – March 2, 2025

Recommenders Can Edit Completed Recommendations

This enhancement must be approved by the CAS association or UniCAS client for use in the current cycle. If activated, this enhancement is available for all participating programs. CAS association and UniCAS clients: contact a member of your account team for more information or to enable this feature.

Recommenders can now reopen and edit their completed letters of recommendation (i.e., evaluation, reference) in Liaison Letters. For example, a recommender can add more information to a rating or question about the applicant, or they can upload a new recommendation document.

When a recommender reopens and edits a completed recommendation, the recommendation's status changes to Accepted, and the recommender must resubmit their recommendation for it to move back to the Complete status.

If your CAS offers the delegate feature (i.e., individuals who can submit a letter of recommendation on behalf of a recommender), then delegates can also reopen and edit completed recommendations.

This enhancement gives recommenders more control over their recommendations and reduces their need to contact support when they need to make changes.

New Option to Switch to Form View on Applications

Beginning on March 10th, 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.

When reviewing applications in Outcomes, you can now adjust table sections (e.g., colleges attended, coursework, etc.) to form view. This increases readability for many tables in Outcomes, particularly for sections with expansive text (e.g., personal statements).

Customizable Program Page Grid

Beginning on March 10th, 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.

The Programs page in Outcomes allows you to configure the settings for each of your programs. With this enhancement, the grid on the programs page is now customizable, allowing you to add and remove headers. This allows you to more efficiently find programs based on criteria that are most relevant to you.

Categorizing Marketing Email Templates with Audience Types

Beginning on March 10th, 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.

This enhancement adds Audience Types to Marketing Email Templates. Benefits of this feature include:

• Better categorization to keep email templates organized.
• More accurate template application, as each template can only be used when it applies to the intended audience.
• Improved merges, as merge fields that are inapplicable to the specified audience are no longer available to select in your template.

Marketing Emails Now Offer Searchable Merge Fields

Beginning on March 10th, 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.

When adding merge fields to your marketing email templates, you can now search for merges. This allows you to more efficiently find and apply merge fields.

Images in System Email Templates Can Now Include Clickable Links

Beginning on March 10th, 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 include hyperlinks within images in System Email Templates. To do so, click any image in the email then click the hyperlink icon.

Ability to Group and Sort Applicant Form Data

Beginning on March 10th, 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.

When configuring a table section in Applicant Forms, you can now set Group By and Sort By options that adjust how the data in the table is displayed on applications and application PDFs within Outcomes.

Enhanced Segmenting for Data Within Table Rows

We will activate this enhancement on a rolling basis throughout the month of March. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. If you would like to receive the enhancement sooner, please contact your CSM.

When working with segments on the Applications Grid, more powerful filtering is now possible using the data found within tables on application forms. Searches and segments now evaluate data at the row level. This means that your queries will return results only when all your specified conditions are met within a single row. For example, if you're querying for data within a college coursework table, you can isolate colleges that are within a specific state and where an applicant attained a desired number of credit hours. This enhancement allows for more dynamic and accurate searches and segmentation.