Steps: Set Up Student Recommenders

Recommenders are individuals such as counselors, teachers, coaches, or mentors who can provide more information about applicants. Their recommendations help you evaluate student applications and make better admissions decisions. You can enable recommenders to set up accounts on the external student site, where they can fill out questionnaires and provide letters of recommendation for applications.

Create Admissions Application Configuration.

Complete the

Recommendations

section of an admissions application configuration.

Configure Questionnaires and Questions.

Create questionnaires for recommenders to fill out and upload their letters of recommendation.

In the

Questionnaire Types

prompt, select Admissions
.

In the

Allowed on Business Processes

prompt, select Student Application Recommendation Event
.

Create Student Recommender Configurations.

Edit Business Process Security Policies.

Set up the security policy for the Student Application Recommendation Event
business process.

Edit Business Processes.

Add a Complete Questionnaire
step to the Student Application Recommendation Event
business process and select a questionnaire for the recommender to fill out.

To assign questionnaires based on criteria such as the application population, add multiple Complete Questionnaire
steps and configure step conditions to route the correct questionnaire to the recommender.

Set up notifications for student recommenders.

See Steps: Set Up Notifications for Student Recommenders.

Recommenders can set up accounts on the external student site and navigate to the recommendation landing page to provide their recommendations. You can take their recommendations into account when evaluating applications and making admissions decisions.