Slate Spotlight: The Slate.org Application Tracker

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Alright, well we should probably get started. It's so good to see you all. Join us in the chat. Sarah and I cannot wait to share some cool information and developments regarding slate.org also want to give our lovely colleague Francesca Shankar a shout out. She's our sleep.org program manager who will also be joining us in the chat, helping you guys out as you post some questions throughout the time so I didn't hand it over to Sarah.

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So we have a lot of exciting things to talk about today. We have new new things, old things that look new and just everything in between. So a little overview of what we're going to be discussing today. We're going to kind of give you a broad picture of what the data sharing journey looks like between colleges, high schools and students. Kind of give you that whole flow. We're going to take a deeper dive into the counselor application tracker, which is the new which is a fairly new feature for us and again show you some new UI improvements.

In some little fun things that a lot of you been asking for for a long time that we're going to dive into the student application tracker, Aaron is going to take you on a little journey through the student application tracker, and again will leave some time at the end. For some questions we did get a few in before the web and R, so we will try to address those as we go, and then we'll see what we get to at the end.

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Perfect so we can talk about a lot of these things. I mean what we could, but I think it's important to to think a little bit about the evolutionofslate.org where we've been, where we're at, where we're going, and so forth. And just for some perspective here too, we announced late.org at Nakak in 2017, which is super cool to think about where it's come. And we introduced the data sharing in 2018. Since we have a mix of some high school counselors that have joined us today as well.

As a as a lot of slate colleges and universities as well, I just want to let you guys know two data sharing has always been a thing, so the things that we show you today or just showing how we are, how we've kind of redesigned and re categorize things for counselors to make their workflow a little easier. In 2019 we hit 5000 schools across the nation. 2010 we hit the big number of 10,000 high schools that became enrolled and we also launched a counselor community form.

And feedback forms. So a lot of the enhancements that we talked about today not only came from feedback that we're getting from colleges that were talking to counselors, but from the counselors themselves and so our product management team in inserra, especially where we were able to kind of have these discussions and think about what are some things we should develop based on that feedback. And then we launched late.org for students in February of 2021. We allow them to create accounts and then that's when we started to think about what would benefit them in their college application.

Process and that's when we launched the Student Application Tracker just recently, which we will show you. And we're also over 12,000 high schools with over 60% being public schools as well. So we're we're very excited to continue that work ahead. So in terms of how it started and how it's going, these might be a little blurrier when this screen is pulled back, but we're gonna go in to show you some of those changes and peel back the curtain, moron, that counselor perspective. So we think this will be cool for the colleges to see. Two is what the.

What does the counselor really experience across not just applications of your institution, but all institutions in that regard and and what that means when you're sharing data? When we think about the data sharing as a whole, we get a lot of questions. You know from counselors and from college is what happens when a student submits an application. Where does that go? Does it matter if it's from a source like the common application or not? And the answer is no, it doesn't matter. Applications come from a variety of sources, so you have a student that may be filling out a common application and submitting it.

That they may be filling out a UC app or some other states. Will system application, a coalition app, an app created by a college university using slate. It doesn't matter whenever they submit that application, it can end up at the center of this universe or the slate averse. Just making up terms. Now that goes into the slate databases of a college or university. We had a fun fact internally when looking at this early action, deadline or decision deadline of N1, right? And we're thinking about how many applications?

Yeah.

Came in just on the night before on November 1 and it's we had over 800 and was injured in five or 6000 applications that came from all kinds of sources that ended up in slate in general. So kind of shows you the power of the things that end up in slate and colleges. Universities that use slate have the opportunity to share the applicant statuses and decisions and missing checklist items with the slate.org community. So pushing that information out to.

Our counselors in slate.org, so counselors can either take a look at what applications are awaiting materials and submit documents to help complete those applications, and now we're taking it a step further and saying, now that students are a part of this slate.org community. They're already finding out what their application statuses are, and so forth, but they're having to, you know, remember all their different links to their status pages to go in, and so forth, so why not give them a little higher level view in a centralized location and slate.org as well?

So if there are counselors know that they have applications from certain colleges that are waiting materials or decided that the student will know as well. So we'll show you kind of both of those experiences. And there were some questions that came in from our colleges about data sharing. This is not going to be a training on how to configure every little button, but it's going to be more of a demo. But in the Q&A will kind of give you a little some tips for that college side as well and talk to you about some additional resources that we can point you to after.

This webinar, so without further ado, let's go ahead and pull back that curtain a little bit to take a look at the counselor side of sight.org and head back over to Sarah.

Yeah, thanks Erin. OK so as Aaron said I am signed in here into slate.org as sleep high as a counselor at Slate High and you may some things may look familiar for those of you on the college side, you may never have seen this before at all. For those of you who are on the high school side, some things may look different to you, but for the most part a lot of these things have been here. But I will highlight some of those fun new features that we definitely.

We're very excited to be to be giving to our counselors for just to make their day to day life and their work. And, you know, tasks that they have to do a little bit easier. And and for one thing, we're calling out more. So this is just the home home tab here and one of the biggest things here is recent updates. It's calling out all of the new updates that account Sir can see. So as you can see here, here's here's some examples that we kind of set up for you. You can see if there's decisions available for students, so you know.

I open this up. You'll see that there's a student here who has this decision available. Maybe there are application deadlines that are coming up for your students within the next 14 days. You'll see the list of of those as well here, and it goes on so you know students who have invitation sent to them for visits or workshops. You'll see that here.

Over here in the middle you'll see the visit calendar is available to take a quick glance out from your home page. You can see that this there's a financial aid workshop coming up, and then this is just a really quick and easy way to go back to recently viewed. If you were working on a student or on an application and you're like you know I can't quite remember who was coming back here. Checking out your recently viewed might help you just quickly get back into whatever it was that you were doing.

So like Aaron said, we're going to kind of go through soup to nuts. What it's like to be a counselor getting these applications through slate.org and just kind of the process and some of the new things that we've put there in place for you to make it a little bit easier to track your students. So the first thing I'm going to do, since we're on this page, is I see that I have a decision available cooperwood at State University applied to State University, and there's a decision available, so this is fantastic at University of sharing their decisions.

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High school counselors. So we're going to go ahead and click on hoop here. Come some things that you've seen before the information that's coming over from the colleges. This is the stuff that Aaron in a little bit is going to kind of touch upon. How to set this up in a brief, you know high level explanation, but you'll see here again, there is a decided decision for this student down here the the college is actually giving the decision. It's it's an admit for Coop, so congratulations.

You would you're going to college over here, you know something that we've seen before, but it's a little bit quicker and easier for counselors to view all the checklist items. Whether you know and the status, and then the ability to quickly upload any of the supporting documents.

So this is just looking at one student here, but if I were to go and I wanted to say, OK, you know I've taken care of Coop. This is great. We see that they're decided now. I want to kind of go in and start looking at some of the tasks that I want to get accomplished today. So I'm going to go here and I'm going to click on all applications now. This is a super fun and exciting new view where we're actually showing we're tracking the applications of the students at your at your school. And again in a minute I'll talk about a little bit more about these personal lists, which are.

Not anything new technically, but some fun things that we have for them here. But you'll see the first thing I want to call attention to is on this top line here. Three applications are nearly nearing deadlines, so that means the college has set a deadline for the application and that means the student needs to finish this application, which could mean in some cases that maybe it's on the school counselor. It's it's the materials that need to come in so you can see these are all grouped by the status, the application status so the students fall underneath.

Others, depending on where their application is at the school. I'm just going to collapse these real quick to make this view a little bit easier, so let's say I come in. I've already started my day. I took a look at some of my activity. I saw some students who had been decided the next thing I want to take a look at today is I want to make sure that the students who are awaiting materials that have awaiting materials statuses at colleges get the materials. So this is just a really nice super quick way to look at all the students who fall into this bucket of awaiting materials.

And again we have this activity tracker, kind of pulling over here. These are the activities for specifically for application information right here on this side.

Then if I wanted to, you know, pared down a little bit more. So let's say I really want to focus. Now. I've already taken care of so much waiting materials, but I just want to see what other students are doing. I can go in, and I can drill into my seniors list, which is a list that I created for myself here. A list, a quick list of my seniors I can go in and say like, OK, so Lucy, I'm gonna go take a look at Lucy.

And I can come over here now and see that Lucy has two applications. One's been completed and one is actually decided and there are two separate universities. And again you can see the different statuses of all of Lucy's or any student application. So pretty quick and easy to see it right there. You know. Same thing. I can go all the way down.

I'm going to go back to the student list here and all students and again, boom right back to that first page where you see the application tracker and activity.

OK, all right. So let's go over. Let's hop over to our students list now here on the side. So when I click on the students list now we know that this is a pretty short list. Typically this list is going to be very long, and I think that a lot of folks have had questions in the past about, well, how do I bulk bulk add students to list? Is there a better way to do this? How can I filter? You bet we did it all so from this screen where you can see all students, you now have the ability to click.

On these students and in bulk. So I'm actually going to do this in a little bit better manner so we have Lucy. Let's see, we want Jolene Murphy and Sam. They're all have a graduation year of 2022, so that would make them seniors, right? That would make sense. So now I want to go ahead and I'm going to do a quick add to seniors list. You can also create a new list right from this screen here, which is also really neat. So let's say I added those students to the list. Now they would show up on the seniors list.

OK.

Uhm, the other very fun and exciting thing that I think a lot of folks are going to be happy with is over here on the right hand side. We now have the ability to filter again. We understand these lists can get very long. There's going to be a lot of students at your school, so we've given the ability to filter some results. Right now it's by graduation year by if they have shared applications that are showing that we can see and the status of their slate.org account. So if you have students attending your school and they have not yet.

Either had interest or even know about site.org. Now is your opportunity. You know who they are and you know you can reach out to them if you have one on one meetings with them. Maybe show them how to set up an account, but it's a little bit clearer now to see what students are actually in slate.org or not.

So I'm going to close that up. Let's see anything I can address, right? No graduation here cool. So I did show the filtering by graduation year.

So.

Other cool thing you know, if you wanted to quickly add a student, you can add them here. It's nothing, nothing very new. And if I go I think there's anything different so again, you can get to your students and see all their applications just by clicking through here. So you see the student detail the documents that you can upload visits and their application tracker lives over here for each student.

Alrighty, let's go and take a look at colleges because we did do some similar features with the whole with colleges as well. So again, when you're in all colleges, it's a very long list. It can be overwhelming given the ability to bulk add them as you go down. Sorry, so maybe you know you want to start a college fair list for a college fair in a certain region. You can go ahead and select a whole bunch of schools that you would like to have. You know if they're coming from.

The West Coast or whatever you can set them and you can add them to a list just by highlighting them. Add selected to list and again create your own list or add them to one that's already been created.

And then obviously you can drill in and see the schools here.

You know, Slate university. They're both enabled like college, both enabled for application sharing, and that each coincidentally have six applications of your students that have applied to their schools.

And last but not least, will in the counselor view here will go ahead and take a look at this profile tab, because while some things are the same, some things have changed as well. So you have the ability still here to edit your profile at your institution. Profile down here we give you a kind of a little nudge on when it's time to upload a new school profile, which is always very important for the for the colleges. And then over here, if you were either the first person to request.

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Aslate.org account or if you have the access, what is it manage?

Does that account administrator this? Sorry you have the ability to see all of your users here and kind of manage them in a couple different ways so you can add new colleagues, which is super cool.

Yep.

And has always been there. But you can also accept a new colleague who has actually requested to get an account, right? The cool thing that we've done here and which I think a lot of folks were asking about both on the college side and the high school side. It's like we need a little bit more for permissioning, right? We can't just be saying like these are open to everybody, no matter who you are in in the office, right? So we we've given some more granular permissions. Here we have account Ministrator, administrator manage applications and coordinate visits, OK.

And again, this person here May was being asked to be accepted as a new user. You can see in review here, and so it's easy enough just to hit and approve access for this new user after giving a permission.

OK.

Everything we'd like to add for the Council review here.

Yeah, there were quite a few questions that came in about graduation year naturally, and so I just want to highlight that if you go to say, would you mind going back to a particular just any student is is fine, so we can kind of address some of that information. So for example, if I'm on Lucy's file right now and I go to school record as a counselor or it says expected graduation date, let's talk about how that populates in many instances. If a college university is sharing applicant data.

And you don't even have your student entered yet in slate.org that student record from the college university could populate in here, and they may already have the students expected graduation date that you can see. So it could be populated on that in that way. Or it could be populated from the student entering it in slate.org, or you entering it as a counselor at this time. So then I'll show you what how the student can enter it as well. We're going to get ready to kind of give you that student perspective too, so we can kind of tie those pieces together.

If you can, go ahead and Sarah go back to the all students list so you can point out one thing.

Oh yeah.

I was just going to real quick. I want to import in here I was. I was figuring I can just go through to say, you know, there's information on the student here. The school record information and also here is where the student lives on list so you can come here and also add them and take them off of specific list as well. It's another another place you can add students or take students off of list which is just.

OK.

It's kind of nice to have different options. I think all right, so you wanted me to go back to all students.

Yeah, let's go ahead and take a look at this again here. So these this automatically defaults to alpha order as well. And what this does here is you'll see graduation year if it's already populated from any of those other data sources. If not, you know is you know, click in and edit it if you if you needed to. There's a question about being able to batch add that not at this time, but that's a great idea. One of the things we are looking at doing is some more of this. This batch style updating and also some.

Exporting functionality for you. To be able to export this information as a counselor, you'll hear us say there is a feedback form, so anything we've done here is from feedback, so please feel free to add these additional feedback points that would help, and one of the things that I was just going to cover, Amy. You just beat me to it in the check. So the thing I was going to get to here was what invited means. So we go back to that all students list again.

Invited means that you, as a counselor, invited them to join slate.org and so that's what I'm going to get into right now is.

Where you know, for example, let's go ahead and we can click on Georgie Washington on there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think.

And yes, you see there right now it says he's inactive, but if you hit send invitation that allows you to send a quick whoops invitation that I know why that's happening. This is a test database, by the way, but you can do it in a one off way. Or you can even send the link to all your students to theslate.org landing page. This is just a one off way, but there's many ways to invite students and in bulk as well, which will talk about and invited means you invite them as a counselor through slate.org to create their own students. Like.org account active means they already have.

Anactivesite.org account and you can filter for that status too. You can filter and say who are all my students that have an active site.org account knowing they may have access to the application tracker for students which we're going to dive right into, so it's kind of a perfect segue so we can chat more about that.

Yeah, so I'm gonna stop sharing my screen.

Cool guys are always just the right step ahead of us, appreciate that.

Alright, so let's talk a little bit about the student sleep.org student experience here. OK, so we pointed out Cooper here coopwood. So you guys know to my dogs name is Cooper, so there's just a lot of test records in Cooper in my life. Most of our dogs have student profiles now, cordingley but.

As a student, I can go ahead if I go. If you go to sleep.org right now, you go to theslate.org website. There is an area for students to create an account and that's where they can join, and that's where they can log in very easily. And when they create that account and they're active, that's what updates their status and your student list to say that they're active. We do that because as our colleges and universities known, we look at first name, last name.

Date of birth and these data verse of these students now making me feel very old. Date of birth in an email address and we can associate them with your school as well. When the applications are shared because of that seed code. So that's how we're making those direct matches for you there. If I come in as a student to I have a profile similarly to how a counselor as a profile when they log in and this is where they can update information about themselves, including that.

Academic profile that you see here. So if they put their class rank or their GPA and slate.org you as a counselor would see that as being self reported and you'll get updates on your home page. If you wanted to verify that if you leave it as self reported it it stays as self reported here and we'll talk about how information can go back to college is at this point.

You'll also see here the student knows when it's been verified by their counselor that information can kind of pass back and forth. A students also going to be able to see their their their high schools counselors that are here questions. We get a lot from the colleges as who can see application information in slate.org and that's a great question. So as Sarah showed you high school counselors now have the ability to assign permission so they have to have that manage applications permission.

So the high school Kim to get a little more has more granular control of who's associated with their slate.org account. Who can see the application information, but students also have the ability to say you know what I work with a college access counselor, a community based organization, or maybe I work with an independent counselor and that's where they can invite someone else to see their application data. What it does not do is does not allow it does not allow any external counselor to update academic information. It does not allow an external counselor.

To upload materials or anything of that nature so they only have read access information to them at that point.

Uhm, so this is kind of at a higher level here now. A student also has some privacy settings here, so for example they have the ability to send their contact information. So this profile to our colleges and universities that use late if they have attended a visit that is hosted using slate.org. We're discussing some other pathways that would allow students to send their data through slate.org to colleges and but one thing I want to emphasize is that student data is never bought.

It is never sold and that is something that we are committed to 100% data privacy. Never buying or selling student data in this process. So I just want to emphasize that one of the things that is new that we're excited about is the application tracker for students. So what does this mean? Let me just blow that up a little more for you guys there too. This is going to be really this is the the only platform out there that allows data to be to populate for students application workflow.

That comes directly from the colleges universities. This is not self reported information. This is not information that is entered by a school counselor. It's not information entered by the student. It's not if you're opting into sharing application information.

And for my slate colleges and universities that maybe on here will will circle back to those sharing settings in a few minutes.

Uhm, what this allows the student to do is to see everything in a centralized location because they're already getting emails from UC Hollywoodland or Slate College or Gotham University and Slate University. They're getting emails directing them to go check their application status page and to go look at their checklists and devious things. As you can see here, this does not give a student their checklist. This does not give a student their decision, it is simply a means of organizing their workflow in a centralized location. So for example.

I can come in here and say, oh, there is a deadline approaching for UC Hollywoodland let me go here and maybe let me continue applying which could go take me to the apply page for them that they've configured there or oh, I have an incomplete application at Pembroke. This does not become my status page to submit documents. It really becomes a bridge becomes a bridge to help connect you to that proper page. To do so should the college university participate. So for example Pembroke may not be.

Are participating in terms of linking you out to the apply page, but they might be just showing the information here and they might not be sharing decision release notifications in the application tracker, but there's a great deal of importance for this. Why are colleges and universities are consistently sending emails out to students letting them know, hey, there's a decision waiting in your application status page? Go log in and check go see your letter. Go see what what your decision might be similarly to this.

They will how you will have the opportunity as a college to nudge the student and move their their application status in the workflow for them. As you can see, a student might come into their home page and they log in and say, oh, I've got a decision available. It's late university early action, right? It does not give them the decision here. We don't want to do that, but it could have them go ahead and link out to the status page, right? So if I'm Cooper I might want to come in here and put in my.

Credentials

so I can just be directed. It really provides that bridge once again go ahead and view, update and get that letter a very similar path. Now one of the questions we get as well is, hey, you know, what can we do? Any type of single sign on where a student is not having to use late universities credentials? But what if they can use their slate.org login credentials? So they're really memorizing just one thing, and that is something that we have in the works for. I'm not sure. She said we're going to check on that.

After this, see if it's fully published yet with the ability of our colleges to opt into allowing students to then log into these different status pages using their slate.org login credentials just to make it a little easier. So not memorizing a jillion.

Passwords and and so forth to be directed there. So definitely more coming and in that regard, and it's super easy. So you can see this is not really a static screen. There's so many things that that can be at play. For example, what happens if my application becomes complete for first light college? What does that look like? Does it move to be able and go ahead to be in review? So say there was an action that happened in the next time?

The data sharing service runs and I come in. I see that Gotham University is now complete, so that lets me see everything in one centralized location, which we believe could be quite powerful when students are really trying to juggle this already pretty stressful process at that stage. So that's the application tracker in a nutshell. There are quite a few questions that come in. Someone said, how did you get that view for the application tracker mines in a vertical list. So for example.

This is the student view right now of the application tracker, so I can also click list and so this is a good thing. As a student they can see it as a board, they can see it as a list, and if there this list becomes long. Hopefully they're not applying to 100 colleges or universities, but if this list becomes long they can also sort it by status as a means of prioritization. So similarly to how.

Uh, the counselors can really see things in a categorized way by status, the students have that ability as well, and when it comes to the decision itself, like here where it says, decided the decision is always shielded, it will never show for the student. That's a no no as a best practice. We are always telling our colleges and universities that use late, never give the student their decision in an email. Just make them always login in a secure way to view their online decision.

Like I just demo'd where the confetti came down and Cooper got admitted, so we absolutely will never even allow that to be an option. And so that's a great question.

OK.

Alright, so how this happens as well? Once again the student. It has to be matched with, you know the reason why they we know you know what high school there with and so forth is. It is based on on on the C code. There, it's how we're doing that match. But let's go ahead and move away from my screen and get back to the slides here.

There were a lot of great questions that were actually quite aligned with some of the questions that came in in this chat, and so Sarah and I thought it'd be a good idea to throw those questions up on the screen so you can look at the question while we kind of address them going forward and we and we have some more to that have come in in the chat that Francesca so kindly been either answering or gathering for us, and we'll do our best to get to those if not now, perhaps as as a follow up of some sort here. Cool. How do colleges share decisions?

So we talked about the decisions the decisions can be open for the counselors to see the. The students will never see their decision in the application tracker, and that's such a great question to point out and I I cannot emphasize how much we will not allow that at that stage. Any stage for that matter. But I'm just gonna share my screen real quickly. This is for our colleges and universities that use slate, but this might be good to pull the curtain back for any of our high school counselors to see how the colleges are configuring these things.

Uhm, so for example, this is what these are our slate.org data sharing settings and this is how our colleges decide what to flip on and off for the counselors. So for example they can say I'm sharing these particular rounds. I'm sharing these particular excuse me application statuses that come in where it decides what bucket the application comes in is. For example I am sharing this decided status application status and the status type is in the bucket.

Of decided OK, so that's where it determines the categories that the statuses go into into slate.org, and also whether or not the colleges are sharing different checklist items. This is where they have the individual power, and it may be different from college to college. But more importantly, the decisions themselves that are shared with counselors are simply an on and off thing. Share the decisions or don't share the decisions.

Yep.

Share all decisions that have been released or only share ones that have first been viewed by the students, so there's a lot of options that they have here, and I think I saw Francesca Post a link to our article and knowledge base for our counselors to take a look at. I'll also plug that Francesca and I will be doing a community conversation tomorrow and we'll put up the date and time at the end of this presentation for our colleges and universities that use late.

If you can come, we're going to be doing that as at 2:00 PM tomorrow where we can have a conversation specifically around this best practices. What are some hesitancies? I know there's lots of questions on what counselors can see an impersonation options, things like that. We have documentation on that, but we're also happy to address those in our Community conversation tomorrow as well, and ones that we did. We plan on putting on the calendar for the spring to the newest addition here is this decision status for applicants.

So like I talked to you about before, there is that opportunity for our colleges to take an application like Gotham University and make sure it moves to the decided column when the decision is released so that the student knows that something is there. It will not give them the decision, but it nudges them to get over to that status page. It lets them know from a workflow standpoint what's going on and this is where the colleges and universities can say yes. Let them know that there's something ready for review.

Or don't let them know, and that's a very on or off thing, but we give them even more control over this peace than anything and that decides what what moves over to that to that next column.

Cool.

Oh, this is a. This is a great question. What's the difference between the students application status portal enslaved.org? So basically what the students can see in slate.org is it's just enough to get them to see everything in one spot. You know instead of having to go to individual application statuses to check on things throughout their process, they can see kind of everything in that you know bucket that the application tracker bucket that error was showing with each status, with applications listed underneath it.

The thing we won't show again is a decision. So while slate.org is going to give them a lot of information, they will still have to go to your application status portal to get that decision to see their letters. I need financial aid information that they need, or you know, and so on so you know, I would say I look at site.org is like a compliment to the application. Status is something that students can use for convenience to start, but then know that they will get pushed over to your application status portal to check on that other information.

Uhm?

How can a counselor create lists by class year?

It did.

Yep.

Yeah, so that question and I think that came up quite a bit and they have addressed that a bit. But just like Sara Sara, share a new name.

It's not him, it's me sharing.

Sharing secera it started to blend but yeah I mean I'm happy to go ahead and just kind of pull up that counselor. View one more time. Especially for folks that may have come in a little bit later. And so I'm just going to share this counselor view real quickly. So like Sarah was in here before for our counselors that are in the student section, this list can become long. You can you can create your own list and that's how you name it. You order it and so forth. But for example, you know.

We have one already called juniors here and seniors, but I can go ahead and say, oh, right, I know I've got these graduation graduation years here. If I don't have a student that came in with a graduation year, I can also edit their school record and put in their expected graduation date quite easily. But if I have that data point and it's a means of how I want to organize my students, I can then go ahead and just very much batch add them. Whoops.

Uhm, batch add them by kind of clicking on them individually. As such, add to selected list selected list at it and that's how you kind of organize things and they just let you kind of click through and use it as a form of prioritization and that prioritization carries over in all of your different views. Like I'm in the apps view. Oh I just want to whittle it down to my caseload or to my seniors and so forth and that's how that works at this stage, and that's kind of a newer enhancement that we made based upon the need to kind of back do those batch actions.

Yeah.

And I could see more about batch actions being added based on feedback, but we just want to hear your ideas. Want to make sure we get as much input as possible before making any updates. 'cause I have a lot of conversations with colleges with counselors and what they want to see want to do and then have meetings and innovation as a team around these for forthcoming projects.

Can parents access lee.org? Unfortunately no, not at this time.

So I think having the students in there and counselors are it's a fantastic start. So yeah, we can say is that not at this time the parents do not have access to sleep.org.

Of course, yeah.

It's going to happen.

Yeah, and who knows, there may be some parents that start logging and looking at their students application tracker. I've been there, those things happen and so, but we don't have any parrot accounts at this time.

Fourforslate.org

don't have any individual parent accounts.

What can independent councillor see? I think I addressed this earlier. The If the student adds the independent counselor that one to one consent has been provided and they only have read out read only access to seeing the same application information as as the school counselor but they cannot edit, they cannot upload. They can't do anything to impact that application. It's merely just seeing the information. Because odds are they're having those conversations before.

That's a great question.

Sure, so yeah, so we should call it college admissions professional. Do to help students with this new feature you know, Erin and I when we were planning for this and going through these questions, we started like you know, we're chatting about what if, what. If we were. So we both were on the college admission side. We've both done this. We've had our student recruits and everything, so we kind of try to put ourselves in your shoes and I think the biggest takeaway is, you know, push them to at least explore it, whether that's through an email campaign with them or texting your students.

Did you get in touch with your students? Maybe have a workshop? Have your students come in and actually sit down with them. If they're not slight.org members yet and go through it with them, hit them, have them hit, click students, join here and and kind of just go through the process. They might feel more comfortable, specially if they see the other students are doing it as well and it'll help them see why it's important and it might be. It might be a good opportunity to answer some questions for them, yeah?

Good question though.

Yeah, correct.

See here, yeah, I just shared my page to kind of show that general slate.org landing page.

The other thing too, that comes up quite a bit, are which high schools are enrolled in in slate.org, especially if you are looking to do any type of push to the counselors to then end up pushing their students for for certain things. Anytime you are in it for our slate colleges and universities, you can run an organization query to look for slate.org enrollment status. That will let you know what organizations in your current or data set are enrolled in slate.org or not, or.

If you have organization contacts that are associated with an organization that will let you know if their high school is active as well. You can also run a materials a query to look for how many materials have been uploaded where the provider is slate.org. There's a lot of different things and we can talk about these things in the community forms. If you have questions, please post them in there. Whether you're a counselor, we have Council community form or you are called university that is using slate.org and we can continue that to have those conversations.

Yep.

How many colleges and universities use late to share data and slate.org? So we you know we have over 1400 college universities that use late, but you know only so many of them are undergraduate institutions, right? So you will see as a counselor, a full list of eligible slate colleges. Universities that are undergrad admissions that use late for undergrad admissions that have the ability to share data. And if it says enabled, that lets you know that there are sharers for now. If not, they might not have it on now, but might turn it on later. So they have the ability to audit and turn.

Things kind of on and off, especially to audit their processes, have conversations internally, and those are things to know. But right now we have over 400, which we're happy about. Colleges, universities, sharing applicant data actively in slate.org.

Some other questions that have come into the chat to someone asked about the import pact of like what can colleges share. So you saw those data sharing settings and so forth that came in where they can share application statuses, decisions, checklists, certain materials for for review. But colleges and universities also have the opportunity to create different custom portals and information to put on their individual college, whether it's sharing.

Academic majors that are listed or specific information about a specific applicant and stuff of that nature, so this doesn't impact the ability to create those custom portals as a college university, I'm going to share my screen real quickly because I think this came up somewhere, but someone asked where that information goes. It will still be a folded into that two column layout like it did before, and so we still have the real estate for that portal to get poop with any custom information that the college.

Uh huh.

Decides to put in. Will still be populating here and will make updates to that impersonation feature as well. It's something we will put on our list to do so. You can see that in the context of of this kind of new UI shift, but the information still be able is still able to persist there, and we've looked at that. Test it out and seeing the portal information populate.

Still at this time.

Yeah.

Robert, you had a question about the that ordered field and I think Francesca she she did a great job of answering but I was going to just quickly show you again. What would that mean? So you may see at the top of the list of student list or something that order it literally is to order how it looks in your personal list. Over here on the left hand side. So seniors is 1 juniors, 2 past graduates, 3 colleges has a similar order so you know college fairs. It's all just in order that way.

So good question.

Sure.

Yeah, and you can also set one as your default list, so I as a counselor if I log in and I want this to be the first one I see like if I'm a counselor and I'm on my students list and my default list is just my my student caseload, whether it's a CG or it's a particular group of seniors that helps you know log in. That's the first thing I I go to.

I don't have to scroll through the list of 100 students or so.

Yep.

Great question. So a copy of the slides. You don't need a card because this is being recorded, so we we are going to have this entire thing recorded for you available to view at your pleasure. Share with with folks that weren't able to come today and we also post these on our technicians website so registrants you'll get one will also make sure it's available at a later time.

For those of our colleges, universities that use late lot of great questions, continuing on about the data sharing process, whether you're have been sharing data and your veterans at this or you're brand new to this new concept that she would love for some of you that are have been sharing that have questions or experiences to share. Lots of sharing, sharing is caring or those who are brand new to come out once could be good for everyone to have this conversation. Francesca, our sleepover program manager and I will be doing this tomorrow, November 4th at 2:00 PM Eastern.

Uhm, in that is we we make that available and via your slate database where you can go ahead to your slate home and go to community needs of Discovery Slate section and go to community conversations. Sign up for that if you haven't already. If you can't make this one, no problem. Unfortunately this one won't be recorded. The November 4th community conversation, but we plan on putting more on there to have these conversations and talk through things. And also gives us some good perspectives of maybe some new feature ideas as well.

Going forward that will help the college slide out, but we love to hear all perspectives to think how we can make more enhancements to this free platform and all these. No matter what we do, who else more bells and whistles we add for the students, the counselors, the colleges we are committed to maintaining the platform to be 100% free for all parties, for life and student data will never be bought or sold no matter what.

Good stuff.

Anything else to add for on your end Sarah or share as I was calling?

Here.

I don't think so. I think I think between you and Cheryl, I think between the two of us and Francesca, we've we've heard a lot of the questions in the chat. Again, some of these are great questions that might come up tomorrow. So if you want to join in and get a little maybe a little bit more elaborate, elaborate if collaborative.

Yeah.

It sounds good in my head, but it's not coming out right. Answers, you know? TuneIn tomorrow it should be an exciting conversation.

Other than that, I think we think we hit it all.

Yeah.

We hit most of it and you know, for those of you too, that you may be working with a very specific counselor, right? And sorry, very specific set of feeder high schools or schools that you work with frequently might have a good relationship with them. There is a way to also in your state.org application sharing settings in there. There's round filters, we can say only push applications out to this specific high school.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Receive and that's a cool opportunity to then get on the phone and have a conversation with that school counselor. Hey, how do things look? This makes sense, especially if you're exploring with portals. Do you see how the the data is populating? And that's good to try slate.org out. If you haven't been four or things that we feel less of of, you know nebulous or murky. But like I said before, let's have more of those conversations in the community conversation going forward because I think there's some new features we can do to for you to be able to fill back the curtain a little bit on the on. The school counselor side for us. For for the colleges out there.

So.

Awesome.

All right, well, always more to come. Thank you all for attending. Whether you are a school counselor.

The college university. The more transparency in communication and more we can all be on the same page out there. I think the more impact we can have on college access, the more we can help complete applications for review. Help students understand over the side in the process. We're always looking for ways to make the already busy and stressful eyes of our high school counselors out there a bit a bit easier if we can save more time back in their day to have those fruitful conversations with their students. So thank you all for everything and.

We can't wait to continue to hear from you as we look for what's next?

Yeah.

Alright.

Yeah.

Alright.

Bye.

Alright, thanks everybody, and as Alex says colleges please share viaslate.org.

Thanks everyone.