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Hello everybody, it's good to see you guys coming in. I miss your faces but one day we shall be reunited. I'm so glad that you can join us today also.

Eric Johnson IIT that song goes out to you because you know your tweet had to do a little something. Daft Punk and I appreciate everybody checking on technicians. That was kind of funny. But in any event, today's Slate Spotlight is going to highlightslate.org and I cannot wait to share all of the exciting things that we've been working on and really just getting to kind of reconnect with you all and catch you up on the windors happenings behindslate.org community. But without further ado.

As you guys come trickling in from all over the country, which is super exciting, let's go ahead and talk a little bit about some viewing tips for today. My colleagues, Sarah McGinnis and Jennifer Amicucci, will also be chiming in the chat should you guys have questions about this. But do note that the webinar is being recorded.

It will be made available for viewing at a later time, so if you have to leave early or you want to share this with colleagues, no worries. Also, closed captioning can be enabled by clicking the CC button in the top right hand corner of the share window. We've also got full screen capabilities if you click the little expand button in the top right hand corner. If you need to re sync the audio at any point, you can go ahead and just refresh the share window. That should do the trick and feel free to post some questions in the chat as well. Like I said before my.

Fabulous colleagues will will be right in there to help you out. Will also be compiling some of these questions. You guys had good questions come in over 150 questions came in with the registration forms. I'm going to do my best to cover those throughout the presentation and then leave room for some at the end alright?

Well, let's get started. We went a lot to cover today's topics. I'm going to start off a little bit with talkingabouttheevolutionistlate.org you know, where did we come from? How have things grown? Where are we going? And so forth.

And then really emphasized talking about you know how is slate.org use really facilitate stronger communication in the admissions process between all parties? So the colleges and universities, the counselors, the community based organization, and now the students as well? They were going to dive right in. And I'm going to show you some stuff in Slate or going to bear with me, 'cause I'll be flipping back and forth in between. You know, what's the experience? Like for a counselor versus maybe a community based organization or a college access counselor that may not be?

Associated with a specific school, and then we'll also talk about what's that new student experience is going to be like. What are we starting with and and so forth? Then we're going to end things with some best practices and tips. As you can imagine, we're constantly speaking with school counselors, colleges and universities, and we definitely have some. Some some tips to give you all, and then once again we'll end it with some questions and we'll go from there.

Alright.

So just as a refresher, there may be some folks too that may not be slight users, but a slave is a comprehensive platform for admissions, enrollment management, student success in alumni and advancement were trusted by over 1300 colleges and universities, and slate is really the primary system that a lot of undergraduate admissions offices use as their as their CRM. As well. It really addresses the entire lifecycle though, so also thinking about you know how does Slate.

Help folks that are in enrollment management, student success and beyond. And today we're going to spend a lot of time talking about where that conversation begins in the student lifecycle. And that's with slate.org, which doesn't exist without the power of slate because of the unique integration with Slate, this allows our colleges and universities that use late to share application information, data decisions, checklist items, and so forth with the school counselors that are in slate.org.

We are very committed to college access and equity initiatives in our community, and we're consistently thinking about ways in which we can use technology to impact access, especially even if we think about current times and thinking about, you know, the different research and studies that have come out recently, and thinking about how students from higher poverty school districts are disproportionately affected by the impact of covid. And so we believe that schools, students, everybody should have access to some sort of technology regardless of their location or resources.

That will help everybody communicate better in the college search in application process. We're also very proud to note that we have. We have grown to a community of over 11,000 high schools across the globe. I saw someone in the chat say that they're signing in from Johannesburg, which is really cool. So we're from all over the country and every habitable content, clearly not Antarctica. I won't keep making my cheesy joke about that, though.

So how how it started versus how it's going? So we had a little bit of a glow up. You know we we first started an we were available to come to our school counselors. We allow to community based organizations to sign up, but realize we need to do a little bit more fine tuning in terms of the type of resources we can provide them features and functionality. And of course colleges that don't use Lake can also sign up for a slate.org account and to participate in that college visits functionality as well.

But very recently, as you probably saw, a lot of the announcements on Twitter and beyond and so forth, we have now opened up slate.org to student accounts because you can't really talk a whole lot about how we're going to be. You know, impacting the entire lifecycle. An in college access without allowing students to get involved as well, and so we're very excited to get to this point to allow students to create accounts into better communicate with their school counselors causes in universities as well. So there's two different experiences now on the website.

For both log in as well as the registration process and I'll show you guys what that looks like in a bit, but in terms of the evolutionofslate.org we were announced in about 2017 and we rolled out at nakak during that time and in 2018 we introduced the data sharing. So once again the power of slate allowing that data bridge between Slate and slate.org to share information that comes directly from our colleges and universities as opposed to any type of self reported data from the students. Just to really try to once again keep.

Everybody on the same page in to help students complete those applications for review.

In 2019 we hit 5000 high schools, which is super excited. We're really excited to have everyone in in the school counselor in college counselor community be a part of the broader slate community right now and then 2020 we hit 10,000 high schools and we launched the counselor community and feedback forms. The feedback forms are really important to us. We're excited about that because that allows us in my colleagues in product management as well to have conversations about how can we make this platform better for you.

And we want to hear from you because you know your ideas, your insight, your experience with using it so far really helps us really helps drive into future innovation going forward. And that's the same thing with Slate as well, and then 2021 boom site.org for students launches and I'm going to spend some time talking to you about that experience as well. But when we think about communication, communication is really at the center of this all. How do we keep people on the same page? Everybody is busy, everyone wears multiple hats. Whether you're in high school, you're outside of high school, working with students as.

College counselor whether you're in community based organization or whether you're in admissions, working in your undergrad admissions office, there's never just one thing you wake up and do every day. There's a lot going on, and so how can slate.org come into play to start? To ease communication in the process where we started, you know it was really between the high school counselors in the colleges and universities. We were the only platform out there that has this unique integration with Slate that allows counselors to really see application.

Visions that are shared by our colleges and universities. So there's the visits functionality where counselors can posting confirm visits, send invitations to colleges, view applicant data, upload materials to help complete applications where the colleges and universities can request in visits, respond to invites. Share application in for me.

Addition in data and also enable material upload, so decide where they want to. Which materials? Excuse me, they want counselors to be able to upload and so forth, so we spent a great deal of time on this piece right here over the past few years before introducing students to try to speak to you guys and get feedback and think about what else would be great to add and so right now welcome to slate.org students. OK, so this is where we're going to spend some time as well. How does this work with communication?

With students so the higher level here with this new functionality and the ability of a student to go ahead and createaslate.org account, school counselors will not only be able to create school visits and invite colleges to attend, but they're going to be able to invite their own students an also tracks student registrations. So if you say OK, Slate University is coming to visit my school or I'm going to post a link to maybe some virtual event that I'm having.

I know that not only these representatives are coming from in a certain institution, but I want to invite my juniors or I want to invite my seniors or or student or make it open to all my students to attend and track that information as well. And that's also going to allow students to update and share their information with colleges and universities decide what their privacy preferences are for for that, and also invite school counselors to joinslate.org. So if a student creates a slate.org account and sees that hey,

my high school counselors aren't listed, they can go ahead and invite you. Additionally, students can respond to visit and invite requests from their their school as well. That's hosting those visits.

And I'll be demo ING each of these pieces, by the way, in terms of communication with students beyond just introducing students went hand in hand with. This was the ability for community based organizations so different college counselors or different college access counselors that students may be working with.

Outside of their high school are now going to have functionality to be able to invite a student to joinaslate.org in a student is going to be able to say hey, I want to invite this counselor to joinslate.org so they too can see the information that's being shared by colleges. This is going to be readonly data though, so at the end of the day it's only the school counselor that can actually update that academic information. But this came up because we really want students to be in control. Students are in the driver seat.

In this regard, in terms of whom should be able to see their information, and I will show you kind of how that will work, but this is going to be really powerful to our seabios because they're going to be able to work with students across multiple high schools and be able to help kind of be on the same page as perhaps their school counselor would be, and so forth. And this is not going. This is not going to create a separate admission status page for students. They will still have their own status pages and status portals with their individual colleges.

That they will have to log into as well, OK?

In colleges and universities, how does this work with communicating with students for our colleges that use late? Still, you will still have your admissions status page is just that the goal that with the student sees in their status page with you is with the high school counselor will be able to see that same checklist, right? And if the student gives access to a CBO counselor, the same thing, just so everyone's looking at the same stuff. Colleges and universities will be able to sign up for school visits, but also be able to meet and track the students that have.

Registered for those visits as well. If they have opted in to do so, and also be able to download post visit student information. Colleges will also be able to. I mean, excuse me. Students will also be able to opt in on whether or not they want to share their academic profile with a college University that ususally or does not use late and will talk about that too.

So once again, trying to facilitate stronger communication for all parties.

Everyone can sign up right on this link.org website for a free account. Once again, this is free for the colleges whether or not you're using slate. If you are a college or University that it does not use late, you can also sign up right there. If you're an admissions counselor, for example as a counselor and a student can sign up right where the student section is.

But let's put those slate hard hats on and just kind of jump right in so we can kind of see what I have been talking about here. Alright so?

Here is the new slate.org site. Like I said, two different experiences for logging in and joining. There are many different ways that a student can request a slate.org account. They can come right here and decide to sign up for a slate.org account online. Let's say you're a high school counselor and you want to send an email blast for your students. You can do that and just send them the link right here as a school counselor. You will also be able to invite a student from within your slave dog or account and I'll show you that too. We have some different checks in place as well, I know.

Folks are probably thinking ahead to you know. OK, well, how old does the student have to be? And so forth. So for example, if I was born very recently an my country of residence is the United States. It's going to tell me I have to be at least 13 years old and I can't submit as at all. But if I am of age and so forth, but maybe I'm under 18, I'm going to have to say that I have parental consent to do so. So we have a lot of checks and balances in place.

And we definitely comply with GDP. Our regulations based on country of residence as well.

And once again, if I am a community based organization, I am a college admissions counselor that doesn't use late. I can come here and join as well in two different logins for our slate colleges and universities. You can access all of this right within your slate database. Here is an example right here. This is our little showcase environment, but when you're enrolled in slate.org, you have access to the events as well as the data sharing settings so you don't have to come here to the main website.

To do any of this right now.

Now what I'm going to do is, let's say I am a high school counselor at Slate high right here.

An I go and I log in. I've already logged in ahead of time here and let's say I'm Diana Prince AKA Wonder Woman. Love me some superheroes around here and I work. Firstly high school.

I can come on in and I have my activity feed here. OK, this is kind of my home base. I will see things like upcoming visits that are coming visits that I have created. I can see some recent activity since the last time I've logged in and we even put a little carrot here.

An I can see things that maybe students I've invited or co-host, for example rocket Science High wants me to co-host a spring college search workshop with them. That's another capability I'm going to preface this by saying that for the essence of time this is not going to be a training on how to do every single one of these things. We do have documentation and training lesson videos and previous webinars we've done just on visits as well, but this is going to be more of a what's possible. Conversations you guys get a bigger picture view?

Of what we have in slate.org OK.

Now.

The first thing I want to show you is the profile section for a school counselor right here. I can edit my information. I can also edit my institutional profile. I can go ahead, for example, an upload, a school profile that can be shared with the colleges. They can see that right there an I can manage my own users. So one thing I want to emphasize is that at technicians we are only involved with approving the very first active user.

Foreign institution here. After that you can manage and add additional user. So we see here I have additional users in myslate.org section here so I can also add new users which would send them an email and I can come here and say OK, do I really want to give can access approve or decline and so forth?

The other thing I have here is the ability to manage students. It's defaulting right now to my list because I have created a list for myself of potential students that I work with. As you can imagine, this list could get a little bit longer, so I might want to think about how I'm going to organize this. Previously we always gave you the ability to add a student right here on your own. Also colleges and universities that you slate can share applicant data based on the seat code match so.

If you know Ajax here went to Slate High School and his applications are being shared by Slate College and State University, I can see this information in the colleges and universities have full control here. They control what you see and when you see it as well so I can come here and see things that oh, there's two apps on file for Ajax. He's got Slate College looks like didn't do so hot here. I also have this little lock indicator and this is from counselor feedback that lets me know.

Hey, by the way, Ajax may not have seen this decision yet because another thing that happens is our colleges can decide when they share those decisions. In some cases it might be shared right away upon release and others it might be shared only if the student has first viewed it. So in this case we're not quite sure will put a lock there and then once Ajax is viewed as online decision, that lock should disappear. But just to try to give you a heads up as a counselor, I can also go and kind of take a look at different checklist items and so forth.

Now if I come here, you're going to see something that says Slate.

Org account status and this is brand new. This is because when I come here to students I see who has an active account. I can maybe even sort by who has an active account and so forth there.

And that means they have a slate.org account. If not, if I don't see this, I might want to come here and send Ajax an invitation.

But look what it does. Ajax is a little little young. He was born in 2017, Super Savant. He's trying to get to college right away, but it's not allowing me to do this. Those same checks that we have in place on the public facing form for student registration is the are the same checks in place that we have even if I go as a counselor to to invite.

OK.

Now the thing I want to point out and I'm always following my bread crumbs here. Like I said, I do have the ability to kind of create my own student list. Maybe these are students I'm working with and that's right here where it goes to edit lists, I can always add new students to my list.

So as you can imagine, you know I might have my own caseload that I'm working with here and then allows me to very quickly filter them so I can come here to Cooper and I can see a bunch of stuff. 1 Cooper has a slate.org account, which is fantastic. This allows a few different things here. One, I can go to edit record and see some information. I have Coopers GPA, this is a verified GPA because I as a school counselor have verified what I'm going to do. When I show you the student side is show you how.

The student can self report their GPA and you can always verify it. A student can self report things like class rank and you can verify that as well and that will all kind of help keep everyone on the same page, especially if the student option is sharing their information later with the college.

I can also come here in look at Coopers Slate University application if Slate University has enabled materials for upload, such as that missing high school transcript. I can come on in here and upload it which is super helpful. One thing to note, this is not real time. This does not mean that it automatically completes Cooper's application for review. We have a data sharing service that runs every few hours that will then pass this material back to Slate University and then once they process it get it updated.

And the data sharing service runs again, then that will be reflected in Cooper's checklist going forward.

OK.

Cool the other thing I can do is send Cooper an email heykoop. By the way, I uploaded that information. I have the ability to have custom signatures right here. If there are things I keep saying over and over again, I can also add some snippets with a click of a button OK?

I'm going to come back to my home base and another thing I can notice as a school counselor is, hey, I've also invited Cooper to this specific event here.

In slate.org there's that visit functionality piece. OK, I can come here and not only you know, this has always been available to invite colleges and universities. For example, I see Slate College has registered for this event. The other thing we added based on high school counselor feedback, is college representative information. So not only will you know hey, it's like college is coming. But these are these specific Contacts and maybe I'm going to give them an email right? And you know, we're still exploring with the ability to have some virtual visit functionality.

But I have seen some schools in slate.org even kind of drop in like a link or something. You know in the description or what have you. But now that you have the actual representative information, you could always email them personally if you wanted to, and you can cancel reschedule all that good stuff. You can also invite more colleges like you'll see Slate University has been invited but has not responded.

Shame, shame, but if I'm slate University.

I can come on into my slate database here and I can see that I have that invitation for that event. Whoops.

Let me go ahead and log in. I can see I have that invitation and I can also accept it.

Botta, Bing

and that's kind of the back and forth between the two different. You know the high school counselor and the college, and as you can see here, there's a high school counselor. It creates an event in my slate database, which is pretty cool if I'm a college that does not use late, this is going to pop up the same way that I have access to. Kind of this visits. View here to open events and these are live open events. There's a lot going on in Canada right now.

Um?

I will be able to access in myslate.org account. OK, so I don't have to have a slate dot. I don't have to have a slight database to be able to sign up for this. This type of stuff here. OK, so now I'm going to come over here and look. I can see Slate Slate University University so University has registered which is really cool. They didn't pass in their college Rep information, but when they do that would show up right here.

I can also see that Cooper has been invited but hasn't responded to his invitation. I can also go ahead in the same way that I invite colleges. Invite more students. So who else is on my list? Oh, as I've already invited Cooper, I'm gonna invite Sally Ride right here.

OK, and that allows me to track this information. How does this work if I go ahead and edit this event and take a look here the same way we always had this these settings for colleges made available. I also have settings for students now, so there's this new student registration. I can just toggle this on or off. I can make it private saying I only want to invite colleges to come to this, or I can make it public and same with students. OK, we have a privacy setting here. A good use case might be you know what? I don't want my my sophomores.

That are in slate.org to see this as an open event. I very specifically want my juniors or seniors and I'm going to invite them and that's a way to make it invite only here as well and you still got your descriptions and all your fun stuff that you can play with here. Additionally, as a school counselor, you can organize all of this right here in your calendar. OK, so here's that college search workshop and so forth. You can do US Holidays over this, but you can add maybe something like your school calendar.

Say you want to, you know, think about are there different? You know testing dates or different school calendar dates. You want to include on this master calendar just to do some overlays to help you think about what you're going to schedule when you go to create events or create multiple events at once, with or without students. And you can also do a little bit of an ICAO subscribe as well if you want to export this information to something else.

Additionally, here is our list of colleges. I can create. College lists maybe, or just want to see all colleges here. If it says not participating, that doesn't mean they won't OK. Our colleges and universities that use late can flip on and off those data sharing settings at anytime. But you can go ahead in and sort based on whether or not there are applications or if it's just says not participating at the moment.

Let's now take a little bit of a look at when we think about these students here, I can also invite students that I may be working with another high school. This has come up when we talk about some school counselors that maybe have more of a centralized district role, and so that's something else I want to bring up. Maybe a student goes to rocket Science High School and you want to invite them and then that will allow you to be able to take a look at their their information right here. And this is going to come in handy when we talk about CEOs and I show you kind of that.

Perspective as well OK?

'cause we know some of you have how you guys have different roles. Another thing I want to bring up is when I'm here on my homepage is counselor. I've gotten this question a lot. What happens if I switch roles or organizations you can go and update your organization or say you're no longer associated with an institution and that will go back into our pipeline in our approval process. So hey, now I work for Rocket Science High and save and that will take you out of the slate highslate.org account. OK, I just wanted to point that out.

Cool as you can see, these activities that I've been doing in terms of inviting Sally Ride and sleep in Slate University. Signing up, it creates more activities to let me know what's knew. We've got some feature requests and counselors you are heard. I absolutely we absolutely see the use case and we're talking about the best path forward is to allow for maybe some different types of notifications or emails, or things to let you know when something new is happened.

Absolutely, here you and so please do continue giving us the amazing feedback that you have been doing right here. Is this feedback for man. You can access it from the help icon and I'm going to keep drilling that into your heads 'cause it's been super helpful to hear from you guys. We never just want to assume how you want things. We want to make sure that we're listening to a lot of folks before we make a big change.

Now, what does this look like for Cooper and in for Full disclosure, Cooper is my dog by the way. I got a pandemic puppy. I don't know if anyone else did that. There's a lot of work, but I love him to pieces so he's being a demo today.

Right here, if I am kuperan, I sign up for slate.org account as a student an I'm in Ta da. I too have a home page. I have a little home base here. This allows me to see some recent activities. OK, there's this spring college night I've been invited to remember when I was showing you what these late highview was. Cooper hasn't responded. He's thinking about it. He can decide on whether or not to accept that invitation.

Cooper also has an invitation from Alice Ball at Slate CBO community based organization who wants Cooper to share his information with her in terms of his applications and so forth. So any apps being shared in slate.org she'd like to at least be able to see it.

If she works with Cooper, maybe at Slate High the you know the student to counselor ratio is very very large and so Cooper is working with him and access counselor outside of school there.

Cooper also has a profile. So for example the information he signs up on his littlesleep.org inquiry form comes in here. Can update this information. Things like anticipated entry term. This is we're starting small OK. As you can imagine, this can become more robust. Maybe a more visual here in the home page in terms of what students are managing in terms of different data points in their interests as they look to search for schools that they can potentially match with and so forth. But right here there's also the academic profile.

So if you remember how I was showing you an bear with me for a second, OK, I'm going to switch back right now to Coopers counselor. OK so on the high school counselor Ann, I'm going to come look at Cooper right now and you see this academic record that I have OK his GPA and everything.

Now when I am Cooper, I can go ahead and edit some of this information since my GPA is verified, I can't go say yeah. I'm actually a superstar, I'm a 4.5 out of four. This has been verified by my counselor so this becomes read only. But what I can say is you know what? I'm proud I'm #2 out of 1000 students at Slate High and I can come here and save this information.

This is now a self reported data point OK, and so if I come here now, Whoops.

As a counselor, and let's say I'm going to move around here or refresh the page.

Take a look at Cooper. I see I have a self reported class rank here because that's a Cooper said I can come here to a school record and say I affirm that this rank is valid, OK?

Or I can even change it and say, actually, it's this and you know it's actually it's it's five, and I affirm that too, and go ahead and save that information. But will say Coopers being honest here, well firm it and go ahead and save an now that turns into a verified rank for Cooper to see. So now this class rank is turned to verified and I can't add it as a student.

What we're exploring doing as well as allowing for material transfers of like self reported transcripts from a student to also be able to go through once they were to become an applicant with certain colleges and universities. So I, as a student could maybe come in here and upload a self reported transcript so we can see right here. That's my four legged child here and they can go ahead and upload that and then we can potentially make that available going forward for any college universities for which he is an applicant where he might be able to.

Share that information with them and opt in to do that once again once soon to be in the driver seat.

Here comes one of the most important tabs as well for Cooper as a student is his counselor tab here.

As you can see, since he goes to Slate High school and slight highs already enrolled, they can come right in here and see who those counselors are, right? I can also see that Cooper already works with Jack Sparrow, who's at Slate CBO. He's granted access to him. If Cooper no longer works with him, can go ahead and revoke that access Alice Ball, right here, wants to work with Cooper at Slate CPO, and he can accept that invitation. And that means Alice too.

Will be able to see his information in slate.org should he choose to send it.

This is how a student invites additional counselors to. So if a counselor doesn't have a slate.org account already, then go ahead and get that email and sign up. Or it can also appear right in their slate.org account.

Preferences are huge by default. We're not going to make assumptions. Students have to take the action to say, hey, I want to allow for this. There's a few things here, such as email notifications. You know right now in the home base, a student can see if they've been invited to things, but they might also want to get emails like if a counselor invites them to see their information or invites them to a visit.

The other big thing to our privacy preferences allow colleges and universities to participate in a visit that I'm attending to see my name. This came from feedback from counselors as some of their students want to sign up for visits but want their name to show up as anonymous and so we added that.

And provide my contact information and academic profile. The colleges who participated in a visit that I attended an that goes back to hey if I register for a visit and call it like Slate University Slate College attends, will they be able to download that registrant list later and also be able to download the academic profile information and contact information that you as a student have shared? And that's where that consent happens right there.

And students can always go in and kind of change their privacy preferences as well.

Um, the same way a student on their home base here sees you know what they've been invited to and go ahead and accept or decline. They can also come here to the visit section and take a look at their invitations and take a look at open events as well. And this is very similar to what colleges and universities see, so I can go ahead and take a look at this April 8th event that my counselor is waiting for me to accept and just go ahead and accept that invitation, and that's going to be reflected also in my.

Calendar because one thing is students can do as well, similar to a school counselor is overlay different calendars. Overlay Holidays toggle on and off and also export over 2 two ICAO. They kind of keep themself organized for any types of visits. They may be registered for.

Students also have access to their own little documentation and resources. Portal will do our best to communicate with them. Just giving them an overview of really how all of this works. OK, so it's some pretty basic functionality to start and then we look forward to kind of getting additional feedback going forward before we make this a bit more robust. 'cause as you can imagine, this could become a more powerful resource for students to potentially see where they have applied. Or maybe send information to a specific college or University and so forth going forward.

But I want to touch upon very specifically the notion that I, as a student may be working with a counselor outside of my high school eyes. May student may be working very specifically with slate community based organization. So what does this mean to the student? What does this mean to the college access counselor? Here at Slate CBO? What does this mean to you? Know the high school counselor and so forth, like what does everything look like? Full picture in terms of communication here.

So what I'm going to do is jump right along over to Jack Sparrow and have Jack log into his account. 'cause as you can remember, I can sign up for account even if I'm not associated with a specific high school here.

Right here I work for Slate CBO and I see that I have a few invitations and these are from students students that want me to take a look at their application information. 'cause I'm having active college counseling advising role with them. So I see here. I've got Mae Jemison wants at slate high. I can accept that invitation and I can just go along the line. I have Gentry, Dunning, Murphy, Mcinnis and just kind of go down the line and accept those invitations. I can also come here to my students list and see very specifically who I'm working with across multiple high schools.

I can even take a look and say, hey, do they have an application? Will we know Cooper does? We've been talking about his app at Slate High here an I can click on that and I'm seeing the same information really. OK? The difference here from me versus what the school counselor can do is I can't edit this academic information, but I'm in the loop. I can come here and I can take a look at the Slate University checklist and information. I can't edit this information, but I'm in the loop right now. I can even click on Slate University and see what they are.

Unabling here, what are these sharing specifically?

So although I can't necessarily edit this information or update their academic profile or application directly, what I can do is then go ahead and send Coop an email. Hey, I notice you're missing this. If you haven't had a conversation with your school counselor or the college themselves, let's talk about this and the goal here. Once again is communication.

And when I'm here too, I can kind of go down the line before you had to go back to students all the time. But this is kind of a new thing. Or I can just kind of go down the line to very specific students. Just kind of like a next functionality, more exploring, doing some other things in the interface for you guys as well. I know some of you schools with you know 1000 students, 400 and 500 students. I want to let you know that we are exploring some ideas of, potentially, you know, how could I maybe batch do some different actions in a way that's user friendly and intuitive.

Or maybe export some of this information, so that's not lost on us. We are still actively having conversations on the best, best path forward for that type of functionality there. Whether or not for a CBO counselor or school counselor. Just working with a lot of students 'cause we definitely see the need. Speaking of which, if I'm working with students across multiple high schools, I might want to be able to whittle them down by a specific school group. And so once again you can create different lists. OK, more, I might want to come here.

Or an edit those lists, but more importantly that allows me to say I just want to look at my slate high students that I work with today and if I'm getting a lot of students at Rocket Science high that I work with, I can do that as well. So hopefully that will help you whittle down students across. You know multiple institutions that you work with. Maybe in a district as an access counselor.

But this will be the only system out there that does give you know CBO counselors access to this type of information, including a.

Application decision and so forth. OK, once again we will have. We do have documentation and training lessons that will go over more of the how to do every single thing and this is more of a what's possible conversation at this point.

Alright.

So let's go ahead now.

And jump right back in to the PowerPoint here.

When we talk about student data sharing here, OK and we talk about where the power lies and so forth. So right now you know, close to 50% of our undergrad institutions are sharing applicant data and slate. They have application sharing settings right here. There's a lot of conversations that often have to be had on campus on how they want to approach this. What types of data points do they want to share? And so forth and.

You know we, we do try to talk about a little bit about the the benefits to sharing information, and I can't stress enough to our colleges and universities that are using slate. How important this information is to our school counselors. Not every school counselor has the time or is afforded the opportunity to have a counselor call. And so when we talk about college access, the more that we can share this, you can share this information with colleges in the easier and more accessible it is to them. It's really better off for all parties, including the students themselves. Would highly encourage you if you aren't already to consider.

Flipping on these applications sharing settings, it doesn't take a whole lot of work and we do have some documentation that goes over this, But what we have added is the student profile import settings.

Because if you remember if I'm a student in slate.org, I can decide whether or not I want to share my post visit information, because when you register for a visit.

It creates a visit right in your slate database. If I am a college that does not use late, it creates a visit right in mysite.org account.

An when a student option to share this information for our slate colleges and universities, we have created a student profile data source format.

And what that allows, and we will automatically add this to enrolled undergrad databases and have it active here. But once again you can decide whether or not you would want to to pause that from coming into your database.

And what this allows you to do is take a look at what we have already predefined, so their school information their their contact information is already going to be pre mapped for you and tell you where that information can can live right in your slate database, including the event information. But you can also decide where you want things like entry term or student type to live to your custom fields as well. So you can re map that not to get into too much technical details here for our viewers, but you can map that to.

Your predefined destinations for your custom fields there.

And what happens is that just going to create new source files for you, and we're going to check for things like has this. Are you signed up or are there visits that have been created that you're registered for our their student registrants that have opted in to sharing that information and that student profile source formats? Basically a web service is just going to consume that information when that service runs and go ahead and jump that right in your slate database for you to view and you can take a look at it.

If a student registering is not opted in to share that information, it's not going to come in, but those that do you you will see those rows of data and you're going to see that profile source format right there as well. the Super cool thing is, is if there's not a record already for that file on your slate database, it can create one. If there is, it's going to go ahead and update the existing record. We're using that same matching criteria as you know, first name, last name, date of birth, email. We're also going to reference. That's cool that they go to two.

And we're going to add them as registrants to to the event that was created using slate.org. You can not only track the student registrants in terms of their profile information that's coming in, but you're also going to be able to have to store that information in the form response and be able to go ahead and query on that information and see what has what has been scheduled using site.org and where students have ultimately come from.

We have GNU documentation right in the student profile data right here in that article, right? In the data sharing section of knowledge base for our colleges and universities that use late so you can get started by clicking that, and that's going to give you an overview as well as with our application sharing settings.

For a college that doesn't use slate not a problem. OK so once again in your slate.org account you'll be able to go ahead and see those students that you met with an. We have an export registrant list capability where you can download it to Excel and that's going to allow you to take that information and bring it into any other any other database that you may be using on your campus. If you're not necessarily using Slate.

Tips for slate colleges and universities, specifically from feedback from our school counselors.

Update your data sharing settings every year. There's a lot of questions that come up from school counselors in terms of what they're seeing and slight.org and doesn't make sense. Make sure you're making it a part of your regular auditing process. Consider allowing materials for upload, such as a fee waiver when counselors are seeing checklist items at times and it says something like whether or not there's an application fee or a fee waiver that's needed, consider having a material type for that in case the counselor might be able to upload that share. Application status is through the whole process, not just decided.

Think about are there waiting materials OK, when how often you can communicate. Communicate as much as possible with them if you can, and also consider sharing application decisions. There are times where we've seen you know some of our colleges. Universities might have use cases to why they've not been able to flip on decisions yet totally fine, but this is really one of the most powerful pieces to the platform in terms of keeping the counselors, the students and the college is really on the same page in that regard, and sometimes it gives counselors those heads up, so you consider that.

Also consider what does it mean, you know, as a college University uses slate, you have the opportunity to stray away from that internal admissions lingo. So something says, you know, decided 803.

You can leverage what that label looks like in slate.org to the students. Specially like your application rounds. Thinking about what the language that you internally uses versus what the counselor sees as well. So consider that.

In your process.

What we are going to do following this as well as send each of you not only additional links, documentation 'cause once again this isn't a training lesson on how to click every single thing and configure any. You know every single thing. It's more of a what's possible convo, but we are going to go ahead and send you some different row pieces on each of the different populations and make sure that we're linking you to the appropriate documentation resources. We do plan on having follow up training videos and tutorials and specific webinars as well. I know some of you said it be great to have.

Something that specific just school counselors. Absolutely I couldn't agree more. So rest assured, we'll do well. Think about more topical based ones, but this is more of a hey, by the way, this is what we have here so that everyone can see all sides because it's not often that we get to get you all in the same room. So I want to make sure that you guys have that opportunity today.

In terms of questions, once again we do have this late feedback form, not for questions necessarily, but to give us feedback on what are things you want to see in slate.org that would be helpful. There are some existing posts and the more information we collect, the better conversations we can have with our developers and product management team to think about that best path forward. But I want to start off with a few questions that we've got and I'm also going to take some that came in through the chats. OK, so just.

Bear with me for a second as well.

Um, why do I see last year students alright? Hey, so my colleges and universities that are using slate on behalf of our high school counselors. I beg of you.

Please audit your application sharing settings. There are a lot of times where you've been working with school counselors and they're seeing you know last years applicants still and it has to do with your application rounds being configured from a previous year. So just make it a part of your your yearly process to kind of do that, audit, ANAN, think about what you want to share and when you're sharing it. A lot of colleges have been doing a great job and emailing our school counselors to let them know when they anticipate releasing decisions.

We've gotten some feedback saying, hey, maybe that'll be a helpful data point to be able to.

Maybe, maybe when you anticipate you release, you know there's different data points we might want to add to sleep.org and counselors. That's where we want to hear from you. Are there different data points you want us to have it that are standardized there? That might help you in terms of anticipating certain actions by the colleges, so let's have those conversations were all in the room here today. Let's get all in the same room in the Community forums and talk to each other and that will really help with determining the best path forward in the best way for us all to kind of communicate.

What about community colleges? This is a great question, especially when we talk about college access.

Currently at a two year college can absolutely sign up, sign up for a slate.org account.

And for a college account, but one of the things we're exploring is, you know, maybe we have kind of two different opportunities. One, I might want to college style account, but I might want to have an account that is more advisor based. Let's say I am a transfer counselor at a two year and it's similar to what a high school counselor experiences where I may be working with transfer students and I want to see where they're getting into as a four year, and I want to have that ability to see their applications going forward and so that is something that we're absolutely exploring.

We'd like to have more more conversations about this with you guys, so if there are any two year schools here or anybody who's really interested in talking more about this, please reach out to us. You can reach out to info@slate.org or in the feedback forms or community forms. Maybe start a community forum thread. I think there would be a really good community forum thread in slate.org. I'd love to kind of flush us out and explore how we can better serve our community colleges with this with this free platform here.

I'm an, I know there's a lot of questions at times about verifications and what who can do and can't do and and so forth. And so, um, seabios, and independent counselors once again only have read only access. At this point. We are only involved with approving the first active user for community based organization, as well as a as a high school. Up to then, you guys are managing your own users, and I just saw two someone ask about students and slate.org

terms of what they see. So we talk about checklist items and what I'm seeing kind of from a status situation. Students cannot see their status pages in from withinslate.org. OK, so they still need to go to their individual status pages. That colleges and universities are hosting.

That's not to say maybe in the future we might want to explore something where I don't know. Could a student log into a college hosted status page with their slate.org credentials? What would weather make it easy for everyone? That's where we want to continue to hear from you guys. Whether it's comments, concerns, insights, ideas, those could be some some cool things to think about.

For the future.

What does the future look like? A lot of that's going to rest on the feedback from you guys. We would love for things to become more robust, especially for our school counselors that are dealing with very, very large caseloads and so forth. We would also like to explore what are things we can do for students, but in a very responsible way. We like to kind of start with the foundation, get feedback and take it on from there. One thing I want to emphasize is that student data is never bought and it is never sold so it's 100% complete data privacy.

We're really here really, just to kind of facilitate in the maybe that middleman in between sharing information between the colleges, the students, the high schools, and so forth going on. OK, now I want to turn it since we have some time. I know I've been laughing at you guys for awhile so appreciate those who've been brave enough to stay. I'll take a few questions here in in the chat. I think I've been trying to.

Answer A few of them.

Here's one. How can we hide the list of colleges in slate that don't? Actually that aren't actually participating? That's an interesting one.

The same thing might be for for some students too, and so we're we've actually talking about some different ways of giving guys better functionality of organizing the student lists. Or maybe batch actions and so that might be an idea, but I want to emphasize though, that just because it says not participating now doesn't mean they won't flip on the data sharing later and so. But I like the idea of being able to kind of do more with those sections, so not to keep joining us in your head. But please talk to us. Want to?

We want to talk to you guys and think about the best path forward for that. Because you are we are going to shift to thinking more about some quiet, called quality of life improvements right? And so those are things we want to hear from you guys at.

How do you find out which colleges release admissions decisions through slate? Yeah, so that whole list that you see there are colleges that have the that in the college section or college undergraduate college and universities that use light and those are the ones that have the option of releasing decisions using slate.

And like I said, our slate community is growing, which is super exciting, so you might see that list grow as well, and props to our colleges, universities that are using slate. They've been a lot of more actively participating in slate.org and reaching out to you guys on another thing to another question that came up from our colleges that you Slate too is maybe colleges that don't use late. This might be able to benefit them is the same way they're going to be able to get student information? Can they get counselor Contacts? The answer is that is a feature.

Request in the feedback form and that is on the honey To Do List over here, and so we're probably going to make something similar to what the students have. So if I'm a school counselor, I might have the ability to say, yeah, sure, share my contact information with colleges so they know maybe I'm now at slight high school and I want the colleges to be able to have that updated information when they try to communicate with me and then we could potentially make that available as an org contact data set update for our colleges too.

Be able to update their information so everyone has the most up-to-date high school information. High school contact information going forward, and so things were definitely talking about. And like I said, you guys always full of great ideas. Anne rose looking for fun. You things to do to make everybody's lives a little bit easier in this busy world.

Alright, let's see here.

Will colleges be able to see which students have a slate account from registered high schools? Oh, that's a good question. Um, you know, right now. I don't think we have anything that goes on to their record in a slate database. But we might, you know, think about being able to flag something on whether or not they have a slate.org account like that idea, feedback, feedback, feedback's good.

How would you know to sign up for slate.org? That's another great question, so we haven't done any. You know we're not dropping Flyers from the Sky or doing super mass marketing at this point. For this, we did email allofourslate.org communities, so our counselors involved. We have also emailed all of our colleges and universities that are using slate about this functionality, and we've been tweeting and doing all of the things in that regard. But I'd also say hey guys, are you guys are out there in the ecosystem?

Um, I hope these Rd pieces to that we end up seeing. You can also be sent us a digital attachment and I think we're going to explore doing or what I'd like to do is potentially meet with different people in our ecosystem and community based organizations. Maybe some students and do more. You know, counselor specific virtual meetings or CBO specific meetings just to really talk about. Maybe the benefits were also you've got a lot of questions about. What about, you know, score and naviance and these people in that people at the end of the day, you know we we we.

Love to collaborate and partner with folks that are in the same ecosystem and have that shared goal of impacting education. And so we're here to play friendly. We just want to really approach this from the viewpoint of how can we help? How can we help facilitate stronger communication? How can we help students complete those applications? And how can we help everybody with their day-to-day operations, gain efficiencies and help the students that we all seek to serve in the end?

With that said, I know this has been going for awhile. I would love to talk to you guys for hours, simply not possible today. Do you stay tuned for other events not only for me but from my colleagues? Like I said, Slate addresses the entire life cycle and suits. Do you know that we have a student success community call? This is available for our slate clients on Tuesday, March 2nd at 2:00. We have a public event for more of our grad and professional admissions program coming up. And that's on Tuesday, March 9th. You can register for that, right?

On the website and do stay tuned for moreslate.org sessions like this that would be more specific to different audiences as well as training lessons and opportunities, but I hope to engage with you guys in the community forms. I would love to see some different threads started, such as on community colleges or or you know how colleges are releasing decisions or talking about things like hey should more scholarship information or financial aid deadlines be shared? One thing we're looking at doing too is.

Allowing our colleges that universities that use late and I know you all are waiting for this to be able to share more custom information with you guys through portals. OK were maybe here's this link to a counselor. Fly in program, or here's some very specific information on this applicant. Tons of things in the pipeline that we're super excited to get working on, but I'm so happy to have you guys all in this same virtual room.

OK, hopefully one physically in the future and I look forward to connecting with you guys and learning from you going forward. Have a great rest of your week.

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