Release 3 – April 6, 2025

Optional Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) for CAS 3.X

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.

CASs now offer applicants the option to activate two-factor authentication (2FA) using any standard 2FA app (e.g., Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator, Authy, etc.). By default, this is turned off for all applicants. They can activate it on the Security & Privacy page under the Profile section.

If activated, applicants will follow the standard 2FA process, including verifying their account with a six-digit code. If the applicant has five unsuccessful login attempts, their account will lock, and they must reset their password.

This enhancement provides applicants with an alternate way to securely manage their CAS application.

Roll Over Pooled Evaluations During Reapplication Process

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

Available for Mobile UX CASs only, the Pooled Evaluations feature allows applicants to add evaluators (i.e., recommenders, references) to their applications without assigning them to any program. Applicants can then assign those evaluators to one or more programs when they are ready, and evaluators will receive a letter of evaluation request once. Any program that the evaluator has been linked to will receive that single completed letter of evaluation.

With this enhancement, applicants can pull forward their completed, pooled letters of evaluation during the application cycle rollover process. Note that if an applicant chooses to pull forward evaluations, then all completed letters of evaluation are included; applicants cannot choose specific letters of evaluation to carry forward.

This enhancement allows interested applicants to plan a cycle ahead for their application materials and carry forward more application components during the rollover process.

Search Field to Filter Recommendation Requests

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.

Recommenders can now use a search field to quickly filter their recommendation requests. They can search by:

• Applicant name
• CAS name
• Evaluation type name
• Date the recommendation request was sent

This enhancement is especially helpful to recommenders who have received many recommendation requests within and across application cycles.

New Pending Accounts Page for Contacts

Beginning April 14th, this enhancement is automatically available for use by all CASs and participating programs who work with the Outcomes Student Portal. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact a member of your account team for more information.

Visitors to your Outcomes Student Portal can create an account for themselves by establishing an email address and password. Outcomes then sends them an email allowing them to activate their account, and they appear on the Pending Accounts page (accessible from the Contacts section of the Settings Menu) until they are activated. With this enhancement, you can now activate Student Portal accounts directly from the Pending Accounts page. The option to resend activation emails is also available here.

After their account is activated, students can log in using their email address and password.

Along with this enhancement, two new permissions (Activate Pending Accounts and Resend Activation Emails) are now available to apply to roles.

Enhanced Application PDF

Beginning April 14th, this enhancement is automatically available for use by most CASs and participating programs. For select CASs, this will be available later this summer or in the next cycle. No action is required on the part of any association, school, or program. Contact a member of your account team for more information.

The Outcomes application PDF was enhanced with reduced document length, less whitespace, and improved page-breaking.

New User Invite Email Template

Beginning April 14th, this enhancement is automatically available for use by all new 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 you add a new user account, Outcomes can send an invitation to the user prompting them to activate their account and establish a password. This invite email was enhanced for better readability. Going forward, the updated email will be the default user invite email template for all new programs. Where available, other programs can edit their own user invite email.