Slate Spotlight: Using Slate.org for Recruitment

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Hey, good afternoon, everyone. We're exactly at 201, and we're going to go ahead and get started slowly with some introductions. We're also going to go over an agenda. Thanks so much for joining us. My name is Sarah Koshin. I'm a program manager@sleep.org. I'm also joined by my colleague. I want to give her a chance to introduce herself, and you'll hear from her a bit later on in our presentation.

Hi, everybody. My name's Francesca Borrelli. I'm also a sleep.org program manager. And as Sarah said, we're very happy to have you here. We're going to cover a lot of stuff in a short amount of time, and we'll do our best to save room for questions at the end. But we're looking forward to speaking with you all today.

Thanks, Francesca, and welcome to all of you who are just joining us. You are tuned in to our slate spotlight on using slate.org for recruitment. So you might be familiar with slate.org as a platform that brings together our high school counselors, our students, our universities in efforts to bring about access around the college application process and making that interaction with one another a little bit more seamless and a little bit more transparent. So today we're going to talk a little bit about.

While sleep.org could be used in your recruitment efforts, we did offer an iteration of this presentation a bit earlier in the season in hopes to catch you before you went out on the road. I'm sure some of you are still traveling, and for those of you that are home for the fall, perhaps some of these tips, tricks, and techniques might be helpful for you in the spring when you're out on recruitment travel. So first we're going to talk about round maintenance. We're going to share some new, exciting changes to our UI on the site.org.

Configuration page. We're going to go over the slate.org enrollment filter and how it could be useful for you. We're going to chat about Voyager and just show a brief screen about how a Voyager overlay could help identify slate.org schools for you. Go over a script you might want to share with your high school constituents and college counseling constituents across the desk, and then also touch on our brand new tool, college discovery. So I'm going to go ahead and start by chatting a bit about round maintenance, and for that I'm going to share my screen.

So that you can see.

A very exciting update that we have to share, so let us know in the chat if you logged into yourslate.org configuration page today, and if you did, maybe you were met with some new UI changes. We hope that these will make navigatingyourslate.org settings and configurations much easier and more intuitive. I'll briefly go over them and then we'll focus in and zoom in on round maintenance and what you ought to be doing to make sure that the most current rounds are being shared with your high school counselor.

Friends so first you'll see an overview the things that you need to do in order to have your slate.org sharing settings and your data turned on so that your high schools are able to see application information for your applicants. Next you'll see rounds how your rounds are going to be displayed and configured, statuses that you are sharing, and the names and the types that you have. A lot of them checklists. This one's pretty easy, it's either on or off materials that you're sharing and.

Enabling high school counselors to upload decisions and then some advanced options for you to configure your sharing. But I really want to focus on the round maintenance here at this screen. Round maintenance is something that's going to be really important for you to upkeep and one of those tasks that we really recommend that you kind of write into your cycle prep tasks. Because sharing your round is essentially how you're sharing the most accurate information on the slate.org platform for high school counselors that are using it.

So you'll choose the active period and round associated with the applications that you want to share and that's going to tell slate.org which application materials to show for high school counselors. And you'll note that if let's say 2021 regular decision were at a status of shared, that would mean that any any applicant in this round with an active period would be shared on the counselor side of the platform. And just in case that is.

A bit confusing or you're looking for a little bit more visual understanding. What I did was pulled up one of our test accounts in the slate.org High school counselor setting so that you can kind of see what it would look like for a counselor. Let's say that this counselor, Diana Prince, is going to look through their caseload of students and Peter Parker that I have highlighted had one application, the graduation you're being 2020. This means that Peter Parker, the school that Peter Parker applied.

Do is likely still sharing an outdated round, so that information is still populating, which could be really cumbersome for our councillor Diana Prince when they're trying to navigate through to find, let's say, a student that they're working with for their upcoming appointment. So it's really important that you're cognizant of which rounds you're sharing and trying to keep them updated the best way that you can so that your counselors are able to navigate information cleanly and succinctly.

OK, we're going to move on and chat next about our slate.org filter. So some of you may be interested in considering which of the organizations in your data set are currently slate.org schools, and we have a really easy way for you to check that. In your querying function, what you're going to do is navigate to maybe a quick query or a new query. If you want to set this up to run multiple times, you're going to select a type of local, a base of organizations.

And then the groups of Slate template libraries. So this is going to be a local query that you'll run against your database, and you're going to select the filter. As soon as you click on filters, you should see the option for slate.org enrollment. You'll go ahead and click that filter, and then perhaps you want to add another filter that corresponds to, let's say, a territory that you manage. I think this could be a really useful way that you could use slate.org in terms of recruitment. Maybe you've solidified your schedule for a week.

In Vermont, but you're looking for a high school four, let's say Tuesday at 9:45 when you have a random opening. Theslate.org filter could help you to identify which of the organizations in your database are enrolled in slate.org. And perhaps you run this query, you find a list of schools and you navigate through a few. You'll also have access to their school profile on the organization's record, so you can click there school profile and maybe it gives you an idea of what type of course.

Work that students have you feel a little bit more well versed in in navigating through a high school visit for them and then you can reach out and schedule your visit. So I really I I think a unique way to kind of fill in some of the gaps in your recruitment calendar of frequently asked question that we get about the sleep.org enrollment filter is if it will be enabled on CJ's. The answer right now is no, but we know that it's a priority. So it's something that we're working towards developing because of course you can.

Kind of. If you're if your mind is reeling with creed creative ways that you could use this filter, you're not alone. So hopefully one day soon we'll be sharing the good news that that this slate.org enrollment filter is enabled on CJ based queries.

Next, I'm kind of sharing a little fun tidbit here for you. And this is going to be and the upcoming visit filter. So perhaps you're going to be making a visit and you want to e-mail all of the students that go to that high school that corresponds to an upcoming visit that you have. And I'm assuming that you're either going to be on the person's base, although you could be on the applications base further on into the year, but you're going to want to start on, let's say a person base.

They're going to join at the bottom to school by level of study and rank. So you'll choose high school with a corresponding rank one school, and then you'll also join two level of study rank organizations. That's going to tie up your upcoming events as well as students that attend this organization. And then you're going to do a sub query filter.

You might be wondering what does that look like? And if you're not necessarily, let's say, super confident in your CJ abilities, I'm going to go ahead and give you the walk by the step by step process of how you would set up this filter. So we're going to join to organizations form by location record and then you're going to filter by whatever folder you use for this type of visit. In this example we use high school visit, so that's going to limit it to that type of visit that would be upcoming.

And then formed by location records start date which would be greater than today and within the next 30 days. So what your what this query is essentially going to return to you is person records that attend a high school in the next 30 days that you also have a visit scheduled in the next 30 days. I'm also going to quickly link.

Some documentation in the chat so that you have record of this and those of you who are asking in the chat will this be filmed? You can certainly come back to our webinar or you can bookmark this page for later use.

Next I want to touch on Voyager and this is where I'm going to ask you for a little bit of audience participation. Just let me know if you use Voyager in the chat with a simple yes, I use it. I'm just trying to get a layout of who is currently using Voyager for your recruitment travels.

It looks about 5050 to me, and I love all of the answers that are coming through. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Awesome. So it kind of looks like we might be a little bit split. And so for that reason, I hope that you find this next bit of the presentation valuable. What I'm going to do is kind of walk through what Voyager looks like from a really basic level, because I do see a lot of nodes. And then I'll explain to you why I think it might be a good idea to add a slate.org enrollment filter over a Voyager.

OK, So what you should see on your screen now is a sample voyage. I do want to let you know where it is. Perhaps you haven't even navigated to Voyager yet. When you're in the database, you're going to click on queries and Voyager is going to be right up here at the top right.

I'm going to click on mine and this is just a sample voyage that we have built for you for the purposes of kind of showcasingthislink.org enrollment filter. So your voyages can take whatever shape you want. And the purpose of them is to overlay information. So these markers, ours are going to stand for prospective students, high schools and slate.org enrolled organizations, so high schools, but you could add other markers here. You could get creative and add let's say.

Last year's applicants you could add. Last year's prospects. You could add the last five years of where your applications were coming from geographically. These are all basically mini queries, so you can edit the layers in this way and then edit the queries 1 by 1.

And add them and customize them to your liking as well. So the markers are actually going to stand for one record per result of your query, one row of your query, and then we do have these overlays that are built in that you can use at your leisure too. But let's start with markers. So I've programmed these markers to be our perspective students, our high schools that we know about, and our slate.org schools. So let me go ahead and zoom in here.

And I'm going to go ahead and zoom in on the home team here in New Haven.

So what you're seeing in real time are the rows and the results down here at the bottom of the page changing depending on where I'm navigating geographically. So you can see each tab is associated with a different query that I've set up in my markers. You can take a look and see where these slate.org enrolled schools are appearing on our geographical map, see where our high schools are as well as our prospective students. So let's say I'm planning a trip to New Haven.

And it's the same scenario that I mentioned to you before. I'm not sure if any of you are familiar with this scenario, but I suspect that you might be when you know that you're going to be in a place for an entire week and some of your visits are really easy to schedule. Maybe you're going to be out of conference. Maybe you have a couple, let's say, area program type of conferences where you'll be inviting students to a hotel or something, but you're looking for some of the schools that maybe you haven't visited in a year or two to kind of round out your schedule and make sure that you're making visits and.

In good use of your time when you're on the road, you can also select some of these different overlays that are pre programmed that we have available for you. Specifically this ACS data that comes from the census. Some of this information I find could be pretty helpful if you imagine that perhaps you're looking for additional students that are maybe from first Gen families. Using an overlay that would populate percentage of people with a bachelor's degree in a specific area could give you a good indication.

Of some target areas, or some target regions that you may or may not have visited in the past. If there's another overlap. Of course it took a minute to populate, but I think you see the corresponding killers there.

If perhaps you see that this low percentage of bachelor's degrees also overlaps with a high number of slate divorc enrolled schools, perhaps she navigate to those schools, learn a bit more about them, and reach out to schedule a visit in that way too. So really, I think Voyager is a is a powerful and insightful tool that could help you just kind of change the way that you think about your recruitment travel, change the way you think about your funnel and identify some schools that.

Perhaps didn't make your your travel list for the past few years, but maybe worthwhile visits for you to meet with some students in the future.

OK. And I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to Francesca, who's going to talk a little bit about outreach.

Thank you, Sarah. OK, so excuse me, we get a lot of questions from colleges wondering how they can better.

Educate high school counselors on this tool or connect with high school counselors or just ways that the tool can be better utilized. And So what we came up with was a sample e-mail that you could be sending to your feeder schools. So again, the idea is that.

You know you eliminate the need for counselor calls by having this relationship viaslate.org. It makes guidance counselors lives easier. It makes your life easier. And so we can certainly put this in the chat, but this is something we came up with for you to send during your.

College fair season during your recruitment cycles. That lets high schools know that this is something that you're using. And it would be great that they use it too, because we obviously want more and more high schools to use it. We have something like about 14,400 schools that are using it right now, so that's really exciting. But we of course want to keep those numbers growing and it really only works as much as you the college uses it.

So we want to encourage you to send something like this or something similar in your communications. A lot of schools also on their admissions homepage or their websites have information about slate.org and how to sign up and how to log in. So we thank schools who are already doing that. So this is something that we encourage you to try and and use in your recruitment.

OK. So I want to switch gears and talk about college discovery, which is something that is very new for slate.org and we also have some new UI changes as of today. So just in the chat the way you did earlier with Voyager, can you tell us if you know what college discovery is, just a quick yes or no? Again, it's it's very new so.

OK, so great. Most of you don't know, so I'm happy to share this information with you.

This is something that is a a free service and it's basically a recommendation engine that helps students discover colleges through predictive analytics. So I'm going to take you through what it looks like on our website. But we had we launched this around NACAC about a month ago and we did make some changes based on feedback and recommendations. And so we're pretty excited about this and it's a great way for.

Counselors on the high school end to be advising students and help them find more information about colleges.

Another thing that's really important is that I'll touch upon this when we get into it.

The list that we create dynamically generates suggestions of other colleges, so basically the more you use it, the smarter it becomes. Essentially, it's using data from our system to show students where other similar applicants have applied. So let's dive right into it. I'm just going to share my screen here.

And show you a little bit.

Let's see. Oops, sorry about that. Here we go.

All right.

So if we go to slate.org, the home page.

And we click on Slate, Edward College discovery. This is kind of the 1st place that it takes us to. So one thing that we added is the ability to click on multiple filters. So just kind of starting from the beginning, here we have type, public, private, we have size, we have locale and then we have some additional attributes.

We also now have a Geo filter option. So just to show you here, if we put in our ZIP code and we click on public, this is going to show us how far away the schools are, what type of institution they are, public or private. So it's going to give us general information about our search and then when we click on a school it's going to give us some general information about the college. Now one thing that.

You all have been asking for those of you who who know about college discovery already is how do we update this information if it's outdated or if it needs to be tweaked. So we pull this information directly from iPads data but we are in the process of.

Making feature changes that would allow you all to update this information. So that is coming that, you know, stay tuned for that. But just to show you here again, if we're looking at a university, it's going to give us a quick profile of the school, the website and then down here is what I was mentioning. So these are related colleges. These are similar applicants. And one thing that's pretty cool is you can add this to your list. So if I'm a student or a counselor.

And I'm trying to make a list of schools that I'm interested in. If I then go to my list, I can see Southern Connecticut State is here and I can see other suggestions that relate to Southern Connecticut State. So the more that I update my list, the more that these changes, the more that this list changes. So just to kind of go back again.

If we search for, let's say, maybe a.

Private school.

And we do it within 250 miles, OK, so.

Just pulling up a random school here. If we add this to our college list and we go back to our list and suggestions, this list is going to change a bit.

So it's a pretty cool function that allows students to.

Figure out kind of hidden gems or other schools that they may not have been considering based on predictive analytics and recommendations from.

From the search engine, I do see there's a question that just came in from Amber. Is there a way to update our thumbnail? We are working on that. That's what I mentioned about updating both your information and your images, anything like that. So that's something that will be forthcoming. We just don't have that capability quite yet.

So that is it for college discovery and we certainly encourage you to share that information with your high schools. We have alerted high school counselors to this feature and they are sharing their information with students. But again this is brand new, it's only been out for a month. And so it's we're excited about it and we are happy that students.

They're starting to use it.

So.

All right.

So just to kind of go through a couple of questions that came in.

This is what I mentioned, how would we be able to update or correct information for our university? So that was when we released this feature about a month ago at NACAC. We got a lot of feedback of how can we update. So we hear you. We are working on it. The new UI was just published. So we did take in some feedback of you know, being able to check off multiple filters, being able to put in ZIP code, being able to put in HBC US.

Things like that. So this is a free tool. It's located right on theslate.org page and you don't have to have any kind of account to use it. It's it's right on this like dead Work Home page.

I see some questions coming in about discovery. My colleague is responding to some of them. How can students access it? They access it right from theslate.org home page, so in the future it might be linked to their account. But for now you don't have to have an account to access it. It is open to everyone and anyone. So you can go in and create a list if you wanted to. Or you know.

Guidance counselors at high schools can also tell their students about it as well.

So we had another question that came in. I'm going to pass this one to Sarah. This is something that we hear a lot. How can we test the user view of slate.org?

OK. And as Francesca mentioned, this is a super frequently asked question that we get about slate.org. And I can understand why this question comes up so much. You guys want to make sure that what you're sharing is accurate, and you want to make sure that you have a good idea of what you're sharing before you begin sharing your information. So while we can't allow colleges to see what a high school counselor would see because that would open the counselor and student.

Privacy. It would open it up for some some integrous. The lack of integrity of data privacy I would say is the biggest concern and the reason why we can't allow you to see what a high school counselor can see. But we do have kind of a few ways that you might get the same information.

I'm going to go ahead and share my screen so that I can show you the 1st way is going to be on the rounds tab in the slate.org configuration settings. You can search a record that you know has applied to your to your college and you want to see what their high school counselor can see the information. You can go ahead and preview that information and take a look at what round is showing the status that the student would see in the application checklist as they would see it including the date.

Perceived. Now perhaps you want a little bit more and you want a full data dump of what is being shared on slate.org. You do not have to enter anything in the preview and run the query. And what this is going to to do is export all of the applications that you're sharing in slate.org so that you can see exactly the information that a high school counselor can see, so you won't be able to see the UI. There are a lot of videos on our websites.

In our knowledge base articles labeledandslate.org where you can kind of see what the UI looks like on the counselor side, this is going to be the way that you see what data points you are physically sharing. And the other recommendation that we frequently give is perhaps you have a high school counselor that you work with very frequently. Maybe they're local to your college. We do recommend kind of sharing some of this data very specifically to maybe a constituent that you're comfortable with.

I'm going to go ahead and navigate back and let's say I know for a fact that, you know, a high school counselor at a local high school would be a good person for me to work with so that I can see what they see on the slate artwork platform. I can filter this round to show only for their seed code so that that high school counselor is the only person who can see the data that I'm sharing. And then perhaps we get on a zoom call, I take a look at what they can see, and that way we don't have necessarily the same the same issues.

But it is a frequently asked question. Hopefully these work arounds get at the same answer that you're hoping to to arrive at, which is what exactly are we sharing and how are we sharing it?

Sure.

I'll address a question that just came in through the chat. It was the question was posed are there any plans to expandslate.org beyond high school students? And this is something that we have discussed and also been made aware of some other demographics or or communities that might be interested in usingslate.org, namely graduate graduate programs, perhaps Community College programs would be interested in usingslate.org. So it is something that we're aware of.

And hopefully working towards developing and meeting the needs of our of our community.

Not not available yet, but something that we're hopefully looking forward to in the future.

We.

I want to go ahead and touch on one that came in through the registration, which was that currently right now slate.org is populating data based on the rank one school, which could be complicated if the students rank one school is not their high school depending on how they're stored in each specific database. I want to go ahead and share a feedback post, so if this is a concern that you have, please go ahead into the forums and vote.

On this feedback post, we use these forums to to really hear from our clients and our community so that we understand what your needs are and which are the most important and most crucial for your business practices. So if this is something that you really are are interested in, please vote on this post so that we know that.

I'm going to touch on one question that I see quickly. Can a student apply to a school using slate directly through slate.org? So a student is going to apply to a school directly, but their application information will be linked through slate.org. If you've been on any of our calls before, you've probably heard this, but no decision information is ever shared on slate.org. But if you enable the SSL, the single sign on a student.

And theoretically, log into slate.org, see multiple applications that may have a decision, and then navigate throughtheslate.org platform through the SSO to your applicant status page to see a decision. Theoretically.

A perfect segue is one of the questions that we just got in the chat about customizing checklist items. This is another frequently asked question that we get or frequently ask request that we get and it came through of course in our registrations too. So right now in your slate.org settings, what you have the option to do basically is turn on sharing a checklist or turn it off.

Even if you turn your checklist off, you can still accept materials through a high school from a high school counselor. But if you decide to turn on a checklist, that means that counselors and students can see all of the items that might fall into that checklist. And for a variety of reasons, some schools may not choose that option. We do have I sent it about it at the same time, but we do have a feedback post post Oh my goodness, that relates to this as well. So if this is a feature that would really impact and help your business.

Practices. Please vote on that post so that we know that too.

Um, I'll address another question that I saw come in, potentially any outside counselors or independent counselors. Independent counselors are able to create a profile and an account using slate.org, but essentially they do not have access to an institution because they don't have a seed code. They don't have a high school, so they are able to invite a student that they are working with, and vice versa. If I'm a student who's working with Francesca's, my independent counselor, I could invite her to view.

My information, but she wouldn't be able to do anything other than track the progress of my application. So we do have that available option and feature for independent counselors who just want to manage the application processes of a student that they're working with. But that would kind of be the extent and the limitation of that of that account.

I'll address a question about uploading materials and maybe I'll speak generally about the uploading of materials. This might take care of a few questions that you haven't asked yet. I'm going to share my screen at the same time so that we can take a look at this configuration page in the settings. So these materials, should you decide to share them directly, this would be uploaded to an application record directly and match with that specific item and that specific material we can also.

Allow counselors to batch upload materials. Let's say Francesca is applying to five schools, and I, as her counselor, can upload her transcript to all five of those applications at the same time. And really, what is going to be the difference here is that the materials. If you're enabling your checklist and a counselor is able to select your checklist item and material and kind of sink the two, it will just appear in your application record.

In the application record. So let's say you have, you know, reader been rules set up for what is a completed application to move through the read process. It would function just as any other application would function. The difference is that.

Some schools who who do accept batch materials would need to go into batch acquire sometimes to sort out those those materials that come in that aren't assigned specifically to a student or a specific material item.

Is there any info on status choices? This is actually a good question because there will be schools that don't necessarily have a status type associated with their application status and so let me back up and show you kind of what this looks like.

Hang on one moment. I'm going to go back to sleep.org over here.

And then I'm going to share it with you.

Great, so when you are configuring the way that your application status is appear in slate.org, you are asked to select a status type, and these status types correspond to the UI on the counselor page that are in progress awaiting materials complete and decided.

You have 100% variability and customization over how you want this to appear. So let's say you don't really want a student to see any other status aside from decided. Maybe you always want them to just see in progress until there's a decision. You could configure each of these other statuses as in progress until a decision has been made, and then they could potentially move into a different bucket. So when you're setting that type.

That's assigned to an application status. What you're really doing is configuring how this application is displayed to the high school counselor.

And just another question that came in, we had someone ask about international agents. So just for a refresh, we have different levels of permissions. So we have counselors that are associated with a high school and they typically we approve the first active user and then they have control over who else at their unit, who else at their school they want to give access to, we also have.

Permissions for independent consultants and CEO's, and they can do a little bit less. They only have access to basically read only materials. What would happen is they have to invite a student, the student has to accept them. So I think we would need to maybe know a little bit more about what the international agents were looking to do. It's possible they might be given access as an independent counselor and in that case they'd have to invite the student.

But Sherry, if you have more questions about that, feel free to maybe send a bit more information in info@slate.org and we can consult on that a bit.

Um, I want to touch on visits. We haven't really discussed visits, and of course visits are a key part to your recruitment. Through the slate.org platform. High school counselor can invite you college to a visit. I will go ahead and share my screen and show you where it will appear should you have been invited.

And this is where your invitations would appear should you be invited from a high school counselor to visit the high school. Now the question that came through the chat is if you are invited to a high school, is there a way to to get that student data of students that may have registered and attended the visit? And students actually control that privacy setting on their own slate.org profile so a student can select that they are interested in sharing their data with you?

And if that is something that they designate to share, you would get the students data as a prospect after the completion of the visit. So they would have had to attend the visit that you were concluding. And then you would also have to have set up your source format. So if you're in your database gear wheel and you search your I guess it would be helpful if I share my screen once more, you're in your source format library.

We already have ours added, but the slate.org student profile data. You can add that from the source format library, map out where the data is going to be mapped in your own database and then at the conclusion of a visit your students data will be transferred into your database.

OK.

And we do have some documentation on visits as well in our knowledge base if you need to know more or don't remember something from this webinar.

So Andrew asks, is a counselor using slate.org different than them using the counselor portal through Slate, or are they one in the same? So slate.org is its own separate page. Counselors need to. When I say councillors, I say I mean school counselors need to create an account and log in through that. So it's it's not the same. It's a separate.

Kind of entity I would say.

A very good question that was asked a bit earlier in our webinar is, is there a difference between adding organizational contacts versus signing up throughslate.org? And the answer is yes. So when a high school counselor signs up for a slate.org account, we at technicians, we are going to approve the very first account to verify they are who they say they are.

There is a rule that is appropriate to be viewing student data and after that first administrative users account is active, that active user is subsequently responsible for approving any additional account that is created under that high school.

If you were to just add an organizational contact, that would just live in your database and it really would not affect slate.org at all. So if you are interested in kind of talking to your constituents at high schools, if you want to, you know, move towards sharing your data through site.org, which I really think could be helpful for both parties. Just a bit more of a transparent relationship and potentially cutting down the need for phone calls or emails back and forth. I would recommend that they sign up for a slate.org account.

And then you can, you know, manage your organizational contacts however you see fit.

I think we've covered most things in the chat.

Feel free to keep entering in questions if they come to you, we have a little bit more time.

I do have one question I want to address quickly. It was can I use Voyager for transfer recruitment within our region? Absolutely. You can create markers that would identify students by type or however you have that information stored in your own database and kind of see physically where your transfer students are coming from.

For sure.

Great.

Can we just refer to the registration questions? Sorry, Sarah, didn't mean to cut you off.

No, no, you're fine. A question came through of can we invite mass high school counselors in our database? Sure. Theoretically speaking, you could go into a deliver campaign, invite every organizational contract that you have, and mass invite them.

To anything you'd like, whether that is a Councilor Flynn or if you want to send a deliver campaign to say we're going to be using slate.org this year to share our application data, we recommend that you sign up for a free account, and this is the way that we'll be communicating with you in the future. We do have some.

Some members of our own community that do something similar to this, they broadcastslate.org in their newsletters. Any communications that go out to their high school counselors, they mentioned that they're using slate.org and kind of plug the website and walk them through it. We even have a few constituents and and friends in our community that that share like little one page signups about what the benefits are of using slate.org. Some tips and tricks. So so I would say that.

This is you could definitely mass invite your high school counselors or you know, just mention that you might be using slate.org for this recruitment cycle and that they can create an account for free.

I just put in a link from UConn, just one example of a university who has information on slate.org on their admissions homepage. So they basically just say they are partnering with us. It's a free tool. They can you can create your account and use the material uploader and so on and so forth.

So even something as small as having a paragraph on your home page or your application page is definitely useful. Some schools do more, some do less. But as Sarah was saying, it's anything can help for sure.

And I think we see, we see slate.org as a win for everyone. It helps. It helps you guys so that you're not making, you know, phone calls or taking phone calls about connecting documents to a student. Your counselors have the ease of kind of.

Helping themselves to upload those documents and you get to map where it goes in your own database.

Just kind of touching upon something that you said earlier, Sarah, going back to round maintenance briefly, this is something that we hear from school counselors quite a bit that they see outdated information that they might be seeing students from 2020 in their in their student lists and so thinking about.

Maybe a public school counselor who has 400 students in their caseload. It can be cumbersome for them to have to sort through outdated information, so we cannot stress enough the importance of round maintenance. I think a lot of colleges are under the impression that it might be a cumbersome task, but On the contrary, it's quite easy. As Sarah was showing us before, it's basically a few clicks and it's really important for the schools and then in turn for you.

To have everything clean and updated. So that's something that we definitely want to stress the importance of.

When you leave this this session.

Right.

I'm thinking some additional documentation at the bottom that spells out a little bit more for those interested in configuring the source format.

So long question that just came in from Jennifer. Let's see.

Yep. So this is kind of a question in regards to, I would say, strategy of how to share information best. And I can give you my two cents, but you know your organization best. I would probably say that the way that you're doing it is is probably the way that I would configure it for now, but I at least want to tell you about another.

Potential solution that you may or may not have discussed in your office yet, and that would be using the theslate.org application portal. So we do have a portal in our documentation that allows for more customization of the type of information that you're sharing. So if you have someone in your office that is pretty talented with liquid markup, they could potentially share some additional information with counselors only. So this would be just displayed for your high school counselors.

Based on application, so they could potentially see something like a decision, reason, or some more, I would say granular information than what you might be interested in sharing to the student through slate.org. So it's not a perfect answer to your question. I I might probably recommend what you're doing right now, which is to continue to list your status as complete rather than decided until you release decisions.

But you may want to consider something like a portal to customize a bit further so that your high school counselors are a bit more Privy to the data that you want to share with them, then, then, then the information you're willing to share with studentsthroughsite.org.

Sure, Chris, give me one second.

Yeah, we're just trying to pull it up here, but if you get to it first, go for it, Sarah.

And thank you for that reminder, Chris.

Should.

You might beat me.

Now mines being slow so.

We're getting to it, I promise. Other questions, please feel free to submit them into us. If not, we're not. We won't hold you here. We respect your time and we appreciate you joining us today. Hopefully you learned something new about slate.org, about how potentially this tool could help you and your office in the future.

Here we are.

Thank you. It wasn't work.

No problem.

And hopefully you give some of these tools a try whether you are going to check out how many organizations in your database are enrolled in slate.org.

Maybe you're going to try Voyager for the first time. I would love it. Someone listed a great tip in the chat that was you can use Voyager overlays in trips, basically syncing to pro tip. I loved trips as a as an admissions counselor too, so some nice nice tips in the chat. Thank you all for being super engaged. We do hope that you that you learned something new today or that you'll try something new from our session.

Yes, thank you everyone. Hope you have a great rest of your week.

Thank you all.