Problems:
Conditional Applications
1. Applications are changing after the review period begins. (reviewer groups)
2. Applications are being assigned after the review period begins. (reviewer groups)
3. References submit after applications are assigned. (reviewer groups)
4. Applicants are wasting their time making changes on CAs after the deadline has passed (applicants)
5. Applicants can fill out the CA before scholarship start dates. (right now clients would have to wait to put the qualifications on it), so then applicants think they're done and don't come back, and are then missing out on applying to recommended opportunities. Also, applications can be wiped out during cycle management. Also, some proactive students apply too early, and then their applications can get wiped. (applicants)
6. Admins need to know all the qualifications that need to be there by when they want to start it, or else, it will start qualifying applicants on partial applications, and then applicants could miss out on receiving scholarships they are qualified for, or applicants that aren't qualified could be matched when they aren't actually a match (applicants, admins, reviewer groups)
7. Want to make CAs disappear from the view of OAs and applicants at certain times of the year (idaho st. and iowa) - have also mentioned this as archiving. We don't yet know if they truly want to "archive" them. (opportunity administrators)
(could fix the answers that are shown to the reviewers on the review start at date - virtualized auto-match)
General Applications
1. Applicants are confused when the scholarship review period ends and they can still submit an application (applicants)
2. Applicants' and their families think that they are still qualified for applications because they can fill them out, but they actually aren't. (applicant)
3. Applications are changing after the review period begins. (reviewer groups)
4. Applications are being assigned after the review period begins. (reviewer groups)
3. References submit after applications are assigned. (reviewer groups)
In the same day, both "madisoncollege" and "witc" have expressed concern that reviewers are still getting assigned applications even after the deadline date on opportunities. This is expected behavior as their groups are set to review at the general application level. As such, when students come in now and submit, they are immediately getting assigned to the reviewer groups in question.
We recommended that they set up a qualifier on the groups based on the electronic signature date in the confirmations statement they both have on the general application (on or before 11/29/2013, for example) as a proxy for setting a qualifier to cut off assignments after a certain date. We also recommended they remove the link in the .edu sites to the AW system now that the application deadlines have passed as well as letting folks know they are no longer accepting applications.
All that to say, there is no functional way to prevent these newly submitted applications from being assigned to reviewer groups with the auto-assign feature enabled. It would be great to have some way to configure a cutoff date after which no further general applications may be assigned.
Things to consider when doing this:
Employee Name | Jason Ott |
Client Name "shard name" | ou, austincf, sheridancollege, gulfcoast, fvtc, uark, oakton, msjc, sjsu, roanestate, waketech, madisoncollege, witc, matc, salemstate, isu, uiowa, wisc |
User | Opportunity Admin, System Admin |
Functional Unit | Conditional Application, General Application |
Please add WiSC to this one.
Anoka-Ramsey Community College would also like to see an start/end date for general/conditional applications.
Autumn Tran from NACE International Foundation would also like to see a deadline.
Montana Bozeman
oliver at csulb would also like to have an end date for the CA/GA
North Shore Community College would also like this enhancement.
krysta from beautychangeslives would like to have the option to close the GA
Idaho would also like the ability to activate/deactivate their Conditional Applications.
Kathleen McDonald at Central Texas College (CTCD) would also like this as well.
Santa Monica College (Marcie) wants this
The bandwagon continues: Pikes Peak CC (PPCC)
Tara and everyone she knows at NCSU is requesting this.
Kristy Parks from Texas Exes would also like this feature enhancement.
Adrianne Chun at Southwestern Community College (District) would also like to see this.
greg from fresno state would like to block applicants from logging into the system to fill out the GA prematurely
Beka Smith from uwosh University of Wisconsin Oshkosh would like to see this feature added as well.
Hocking College would also like this (hocking)
Problem: All their opps close on same day. They have applicants whose GA was in Pending when their opps closed, now they come in and finish it AFTER the close date and they think they will be recommended and/or automatched to opps but they are not.
lori at uwosh would also like a CA deadline
OU would like to see Conditionals have a close date. -" We don’t want students going into the system and updating information on their conditional applications at all"
shelby bowman from austincf would also like this