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May 2024
The NursingCAS Dispatch is a monthly newsletter intended to keep you up to date with current happenings at NursingCAS. The newsletter features:
 NURSINGCAS KNOW-HOW
Required Webinar: Preparing for the 2024-2025 NursingCAS Cycle
The Configuration Portal for the 2024-2025 NursingCAS cycle will open on Monday, May 20. Register now to attend the Preparing for the 2024-2025 NursingCAS Cycle webinar. This webinar will cover updates for the new cycle, steps to configure your application, and tips for effectively branding program pages. This webinar will be offered twice, on Thursday, May 30 at 2:00 p.m. ET and Wednesday, June 5 at 3:00 p.m. ET. The following topics will be discussed:
- Updates and enhancements for the 2024-2025 NursingCAS cycle
- Best practices for closing out a cycle and preparing for a new cycle, including guidance on improving a program’s homepage and branding to increase recruitment efforts
- Configuration portal terminology and the CAS rollover process
- Configuration features for maximizing application review efficiency
At least one member from each institution must attend. All users are encouraged to attend this webinar to prepare for the new application cycle. If you cannot attend, please register to receive a copy of the recording.
Access to the Configuration Portal in the Prelaunch environment is required for all programs and allows you to edit program pages, features, and requirements for the upcoming cycle. Configuring and submitting your pages is required every year for your program to launch.
Join Us at experience: LIAISON | Anaheim
Registration for experience: LIAISON | Anaheim is now open! This immersive two-day experience will elevate your approach to admissions, enrollment, and student success. Presented by Liaison International, this event will take place from June 10–11, 2024. Registration is $495/person, and group pricing is available when purchasing four conference registrations. Please consult the event’s help center for additional information.
NursingCAS Applicant Newsletter & Recruitment Event Calendar
The Applicant Newsletter, provided by AACN, is emailed to 160,000+ NursingCAS applicants the third week of every month. This newsletter is for programs affiliated with NursingCAS only. Program submissions are FREE and due on the Friday prior to publication. However, posts must relate to one of the three topics below or they will be removed. Please submit an announcement using the form on our website.
Here is some additional information on how schools can leverage each section of the Applicant Newsletter:
- Open Seats: Use this section to provide notifications to applicants about NursingCAS programs with available space. You can share information about one specific program or multiple programs in one announcement. You can highlight the program by providing information relevant to your nursing school, specific program requirements, location, accreditation, program cost/scholarships, specialties, etc.
- Deadline Extensions: Use this section to share announcements about deadline extensions for your NursingCAS programs. You can share information about your programs, the new deadlines, and any requirements that might have changed (if applicable).
- New Programs: Use this section to highlight any new programs that have joined/launched in the Application Portal since the last newsletter.
We recommend including contact information for representatives or links to your website and the NursingCAS application within the announcement. Visit the Newsletter Archive for samples of previous submissions.
The NursingCAS Events Calendar is a great platform for publicizing your program’s recruitment events. These events include student information sessions, virtual fairs, open houses, and other recruitment events that connect your institution with potential applicants. You can submit items to the Events Calendar using the Applicant Event Form. This calendar is distributed to 160,000+ students each month.
AACN’s Director of Application Services
Taylor Jaczko has been appointed as the Director of Application Services for NursingCAS effective May 1. Taylor joined AACN last year as the Associate Director of NursingCAS Marketing & Analytics. She looks forward to continuing to develop and enhance the NursingCAS platform for applicants and member schools. Please feel free to connect with Taylor at tjaczko@aacnnursing.org if you have any questions.
WebAdMIT Sandbox Environment Refresh
Are you utilizing the WebAdMIT Sandbox? If not, you should be! Sandbox is a duplicate test platform useful for testing and training purposes; any actions performed in Sandbox will not affect the live data in production. This tool provides users with a safe, “near-production” environment to submit test applications and run sample exports, among other actions. The WebAdMIT Sandbox is a copy of the WebAdMIT production environment with sensitive applicant information (such as surnames, email addresses, etc.) obfuscated.
The WebAdMIT Sandbox is refreshed between 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. ET every Monday. If Monday is a US or Canadian holiday, deployment is the next business day. This deployment includes all system changes from the preceding release. The WebAdMIT Sandbox environment is refreshed with current (cleansed) production data and program configurations. Any test exports, custom fields, etc., in the current Sandbox will be overwritten.
Support for WebAdMIT School Users
As always, the dedicated WebAdMIT Client Support Specialist Team is available Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. ET to assist with questions about WebAdMIT features. The team can be reached at (857) 304-2020 or webadmitsupport@liaisonedu.com. Training is also available via webinars, on-demand courses, and the Liaison Academy. Please visit the WebAdMIT Help Center for further information.
Make sure to sign up to receive important notices through the Liaison CAS Status page for updates on future CAS and WebAdMIT outages.
 BY THE NUMBERS
2022 – 2023 NursingCAS Applicant Newsletter Success
The NursingCAS Applicant Newsletter is a terrific resource for marketing your Open Seats, Deadline Extensions, and New Programs to prospective and current nursing school applicants. The graphic below provides some highlights from our Applicant Newsletter during the 2022-2023 cycle. Join your colleagues and make the most of this recruitment tool! Submit an announcement on our website and review the above NursingCAS Know-How section for additional details.
 USER UPDATES
This section provides monthly updates on new features and enhancements available within the Applicant Portal, Configuration Portal, WebAdMIT, and information on upcoming training opportunities. Please note that these are only a few highlights of Liaison’s recent enhancements. A complete list of recent WebAdMIT Release Notes is available.
Subscribe to WebAdMIT Release Notes
WebAdMIT Release Notes provide a summary of enhancements and new features that are made available in the Applicant Portal, Applicant Gateway, Configuration Portal, Letters by Liaison, and WebAdMIT. Want to receive Release Notes emails? Subscribe here.
Spring 2024 Shared Lookup Table Updates
Please pass this important information along to your IT team. Review the Shared Lookup Tables for Spring 2024. If you are exporting data into a campus system, work with your IT team to determine if updates need to be made. If your school created a “crosswalk” from the WebAdMIT data to the local data in your campus system’s Student Information System (SIS) or Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems, it might need to be updated with the newly added options.
Many fields within the NursingCAS application have predefined answer values that applicants can select from; for example, the Country and County fields have predefined answer values. These values are housed in shared “lookup tables” viewable in the NursingCAS Customer Export Layout (CEL). For guidance on optimal implementation of the new values, review the Shared Lookup Table Updates page.
If you have any questions, please contact Taylor Jaczko, AACN’s Director of Application Services, at tjaczko@aacnnursing.org. |