12 July 2024

What is admissions settings?

Admissions settings define the settings for admissions features, such as academic reviews, applicant portal, embargo, and so on, as detailed in the table Admissions settings.

Admissions settings

Admissions setting

Description

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Academic reviews

Defines whether to send emails to academic reviewers and reviewers delegated to choose academic reviewers when sending an application for review as follows:

  • Review emails notify staff selected to review applications and use the communication template Notify staff of academic review request.

  • Delegation emails notify staff delegated the task of selecting reviewers for an academic review and use the communication template Notify staff of academic review delegation.

What is academic reviews?

How to set up academic reviews

Academic reviews settings

Agency settings

Defines whether agencies are included, Cc, in all correspondence with applicants except registration emails or acknowledgement emails. If CC Applicant Emails to Agency? is enabled, then send a copy of applicant emails to agency. Note that the agency shows in CC of the emails.

What are agencies?

Agency settings

Applicant portal settings

Defines whether applicants can defer and withdraw applications on the applicant portal as follows:

  • Deferrals: applicants can request to defer applications on the applicant portal. The response from admissions staff to deferral requests is sent to applicants using the communication template Deferral request response email.

  • Withdrawals: applicants can withdraw applications on the applicant portal.

By default, the applicant portal settings apply to all entry points. However, you can define the settings of individual entry points by editing the reference data of the entry point.

What are deferral requests?

What is withdrawal?

Applicant portal settings

Communication templates

Details the communications templates, such as templates for a rejection email and a conditional offer letter. For each communications template, you can view the template name and language.

You can sync the communication templates to get the latest templates from Tribal, without changing any templates you have customised.

What are communication templates?

What are the fields used in communication templates?

Credit transfer

Defines whether to use the credit transfer method Credit transfer (New) or Credit transfer (Classic).

Precedents used with method Credit transfer (New) require an integrated student management system to provide the precedents of granted credits.

What is credit transfer?

How to set up credit transfer?

Credit transfer settings

Custom attributes

Defines the custom attributes that record additional details for applicants and applications. For example, whether applicants require a parking space or whether applicants have siblings at university. Custom attributes have a type, such as a number or date.

What are custom attributes?

Custom attributes settings

Decision engine

Calculates whether applications have passed or failed the conditions of conditional offers.

What is the decision engine?

How to set up the decision engine

Duplicate match process

Defines whether the duplicate match process is enabled. The duplicate match process requires integration to an external duplicate matching tool. If enabled, new applications are allocated to a Pending duplicate match desk to be checked by an external duplicate matching tool to determine if the applicant is new or a duplicate of an existing applicant or staff member.

What is duplicate matching?

How to merge applicants

Duplicate match process settings

Permissions

Defines the permissions related to Admissions only. For example, the permissions of admissions officers that are required to use the Applications app, view applications, publish decisions, and so on.

The Settings area defines the permissions of admissions staff in admissions settings.

What are permissions?

Reference data

Data defines the reference data for the following:

  • Applications: defines the desks, courses, entry points, offers, and so on used in applications.

  • Documents: defines the document types, such as Passport and Transcript and the file types of documents, such as PDF and JPG,

What is the reference data for applications?

What is the reference data for documents?