Jennifer Bento: [00:00:00] All right. See, we have some folks still logging in, but we’ll get started in the interest of time. Uh, hello, Ian. Good morning. Thank you for joining us today. Um, the K 12 services team, Andrea Appal, myself. Jennifer, uh, welcome you to our, um, MEFA Institute webinar, uh, learn about Common App and Parchment integration with MEFA Pathway.

That’s a mouthful. Uh, thank you for spending some time with us here this morning. Uh, just a few logistics before we get started. Uh, if you have any questions, um, if you would be so kind to pop those into the q and a. We have the chat disabled, uh, we’ll answer any quick hit questions, um, throughout. And if there are any for the larger group, uh, that the, that the larger group should hear, you can put those in the QA and we’ll [00:01:00] answer those.

Um, at the end of the session, uh, we will, we’re recording the session, uh, and we will be sending a follow up tomorrow, uh, with the slides. So we’ll be going through, um, the recording. Um, and also this webinar is part of our, um, MEFA Institute. It’s eligible for one PDP, so you’ll get that info all in the follow up.

Email. Um, and you can also enable the live transcript if you like. Alright, just a little bit about MEFA. Uh, we’ve been around for over 40 years, uh, with the continued mission of helping families plan, save and pay for college. Um, in addition to offering our loan cost loan programs, uh, we also manage the Massachusetts College Savings Plans, um, the U Plan and the U Fund.

Uh, so you can always, um. Check us out on MEFA.org. Um, and we also work closely with schools across the state to support, uh, college and career readiness. Right. So for [00:02:00] today’s agenda, you see we have our poll up. Um, and again, if, if you haven’t done so already, if you could, uh, complete our poll. Um, this, uh, information is very, very valuable to our team.

So, uh, we thank you for that. All right, so Andrea is going to speak to our current participating schools and share a bit about data. Then we’ll go into a preview of the counselor, student and teacher workflow for Common App and Parchment. Um, and then we’ll share some resources, uh, our things to do next, and then address any outstanding questions.

Alrighty. So I’m going to pass the torch to Andrea here. Oh, and there’s our poll monkey poll. Get onto the All righty. You’re on mute there, Andrea.

Apelila Joseph: Actually, we might wanna look at the results of the poll first.

Jennifer Bento: Oh, okay. Sure. If,

Apelila Joseph: if you don’t mind. Yeah. That way we can close it and then, yeah. Thanks.

Jennifer Bento: Okay. Do you wanna share ’em?

Apelila Joseph: I don’t, I can’t see them. [00:03:00] You can?

Jennifer Bento: Okay. I’m gonna share ’em. There we are.

Apelila Joseph: Um, awesome. So, um, it’s, thank you so much for answering our poll. Um, we have, um, some great participation. Just wanted to ask a little bit about, um, what current platforms you all use to help inform some of the comments we might make, um, to highlight some of the differences and similarities between what you already use and what a transition over to me Pathway might look like.

So that’s why we ask that. Um. And so just like wanted to, to share that, um, as we go along. So thank you, Jennifer, for, for doing that. Um, you can see that we have a great lineup of schools. Um, so you can see the two buckets, the new participating schools. Those were schools that joined us this, um, for this school year.

Um, so we onboarded these schools, um, this past summer into the fall. Um, we did some trainings with them and. Got them set up and ready to [00:04:00] go for the fall. So we’re really proud of this new cohort of schools that joined us, um, and joining our terrific cohort as well of returning schools. Um, some of these schools have been with us since the very beginning, a few, uh, four years ago.

Is it Jennifer and Abuela? Where the Common App parchment duration began, um, as an offering in addition to everything else that Nefa Pathway has to offer. Um, so we’re really grateful to many of these schools as well for, um, being with us and helping us build a strong offering. Um, so you can see, I would take this moment also to check in on, um, the particular schools to see if you know any counselors there, um, any colleagues that you might be running into or speaking to at different events.

Perhaps, uh, checking in with them about their use of EVA Pathway, uh, and the common app parchment integration. It’s always nice to, to share and, you know, um, kind of pick, pick others’ brains. Um, so because you know that they’ve been using it. Um, great. Thanks so much. Jennifer, do you [00:05:00] wanna go to the next slide?

Um, so we wanted to share, um, some, some brief data with you all before we head into, um, digging into. The actual integration, just to give you an idea of how much we’ve grown just in the last year, um, it’s really exciting for us. It’s exciting for our schools, and we’re just, um, eager to continue this, doing this good work with, with all of you, of processing your students’ applications and making sure everything’s done, um, in a, in a way that’s smooth for you all, smooth for the student and also, um.

Getting done and smooth for the common college side. So you can see here on the left, you can see the decision plans, early action, the two, uh, REA ed, um, one and two regular enrolling. And so we have compiled for you the applications we submitted for each of those, uh, cycles last year, um, February of, you know, this time last year.

And then for this year. [00:06:00] Feb 2026. And really the point I wanna make here is the percent change. So it’s, we’ve seen some tremendous change just in the last year with our, um, new cohort of schools joining us. So you can see we’re processing a lot of applications. It’s also nice, probably for you all to see the trend also magnified here of more and more.

Students submitting early action deadlines, uh, applications. Um, so that’s, that’s nice to see that the MEFA Pathways schools line up with that national trend as well. Um, which for us means that we on the backend are ready for this. Um, and we are able to, um, make sure that you get all the training that you need prior to those, uh, earliest deadlines.

Thanks. So let’s, um, dive into, um, talking about the actual integration. Um, and again, we wanna highlight what’s similar, what’s different. Let’s start with the counselor workflow. Um, so we wanna just, um. Represent to you that that [00:07:00] really wouldn’t change too much. Oh, you already probably in your other platforms, go through a setup process, making sure all your data’s in the, um, in your platform, making sure all your students have counselors assigned to them, and doing the work of updating and then uploading your high school profile, PDF.

So that setup is. Pretty identical to what you’re probably used to right now. Um, our entire sort of motto at bifa Pathways efficiency. We wanna make sure that the one-time school and counselor profile set up is really easy for you all so that the data automatically populates to common app reports that you’re sending along with your transcripts.

Um, speaking of transcripts, uh, we do offer the batch transcript manager, um, which. Allows you would allow whoever’s doing that for your team to upload one file, um, for your, [00:08:00] all of your transcripts. So you would download that file from your student information system and upload that, um, as a batch into MEFA pathway.

So for some of the larger schools are joining us, this is obviously a very needed, um, and, and will save you thousands of clicks. And this is available for the initial midyear and final transcripts as well. So that’s, that’s nice to call out. And then finally, um, you’ll see something that is a little bit different probably than what you’re used to, but we get great feedback from our schools that sometimes is actually preferred, is the actual way that you will.

Be managing your workflow, submitting forms, and just really visualizing your caseload. And we’ll obviously show you what all this looks like, but we call it our manage applications dashboard. And this dashboard is a one-stop shop. You’ll be be able to view your action items based on application type, complete all your required forms from this single dashboard and of, of course, submit [00:09:00] all your council recommendations.

Um, so let’s show you what that, um, dashboard looks like. So from your main homepage in MEFA Pathway, you’ll be able to click into what we call the managed transcripts and recommendations dashboard. And so we’ve taken a screenshot here of what it looks like, um, and this dashboard will encompass. Your entire caseload and for directors of counseling programs or administrative assistants, we’re able to have it.

So you can view all students in this dashboard, say the entire senior class that you can be managing, um, that initial bulk upload, but several, um, or many counselors. Uh, prefer to just see their own caseload, which is awesome because you just click into the dashboard and then you’re able to visualize your 60 students, your 80 students, however many you have in your caseload.

So the way this works and what you’re seeing here is that every student corresponds to one line across. So, um, [00:10:00] let’s start with Pam, for example. So we have Pam, um, the first line on the dashboard. Um, it. Says her common app id, how many common app, uh, schools, um, Pam’s applied to, or, and that’s like feeding from the common app parchment post a mail, earliest deadline, primary counselor, and whether the FERPA was waived.

So all of these pieces on the common application tab, um, get populated. Um, uh. Really easily. And so you can see truly there are three tabs up top. So common application parchment and postal mail right now. Um, the green common application tab is clicked. So you can see all your common application, um, work.

If you wanna toggle over to Parchment, you’ll still see your entire caseload, but just for the parchment, uh, work that you need to do. So some counselors say they prefer this view, um, versus having to go. Into each student’s individual account and then further clicking [00:11:00] into their document submission, um, page.

Um, because you can see everything at a glance, and it’s also really nice to see the work being completed. And so if you keep going across Pam’s line, you’ll see that you start getting into transcript territory, common app form, territory, and then common app reports. So all of those columns tell you what the, um.

The forms are. And so for mi a pathway, uh, open bubble, you can see the key there. Application status, key on the top right means, uh, to do a task that’s incomplete. Um, so a to do item for you. So you would click on that bubble and then the task would pop up and you would submit that form. Once something’s been uploaded, so for example, Pam’s optional, uh, transcript one you can see has that green outline with the check mark.

That means it’s been uploaded by you. So that means action complete. Furthermore, if you go down to say Bugs Bunny, [00:12:00] uh, online four, you go across, you can see Bugs Bunny’s school report. So that’s the accompanying common app report along with the initial transcript. You can see that’s a fielding. Green. So that means that the counselor has already gone in, uploaded it.

And furthermore, it’s now been submitted. Um, so that means it’s been kind of sent off and the, the post office mechanism has worked and it’s, it’s often to the void, um, being sent expediently to common app and therefore the colleges. So if you keep going across, you can see fee waiver, council recommendation, early decision agreements.

So this, uh. This column is blank currently because none of these students have indicated that they’re applying early decision to a college via their common app. Once a student does identify that a bubble would pop up and then. If I follow that line across, you’ll see the teacher evals, just so you can check in on the statuses of your, um, of the [00:13:00] student’s teacher evaluations.

Now, if I wanna see more detail, um, if I wanna look peek into Pam’s specific college applications where she’s applying to, so the four common app colleges, if I went. Wanna see the detailed view, I would simply click on Pam’s name and then, um, you would be able to see that expanded view of all her four common app schools and one parchment.

So that’s what we’re looking at. Um, in the second screenshot, you’re actually able to see the work that’s been going on for each individual school. So it’s really just one click, uh, two clicks, clicking into the dashboard, and then, um, if you wanna see more detail clicking into the student’s name. So really easy management, easy viewability of all documents, um, is sort of the headline for, for how this integration works.

And then for form submission. So if you, once you’re ready. Um, so for this student Frodo, um, we’re assuming that you’ve then clicked on a [00:14:00] bubble. This is what you would see. So once you click on, um, a bubble, say you wanna submit, um, Frodo’s counselor. Rec, um, you would click on the bubble and then this popup would appear for you.

Um, the common app forms, all of them are exactly what the same forms, um, that you are probably used to filling out right now. Um, so they’re the standard common app forms that serve as the cover letters to all of the schools documents. So the questions are the same. The formatting will look different. Um, as you can see, we have the MEFA blue, the MEFA green.

So the color scheme would be different than what you’re used to, but the actual, um. Headings and the questions are all the standard common app form questions. What’s great is that these forms, once you click on the bubble, are pre-populated with counselor contact info and all your school configuration info, so you don’t have to type everything in every time everything’s already populated for you, so you’re really just reviewing the information, clicking next, [00:15:00] and working through the, in this case, 1, 2, 3, sort of four sections.

The applicant information counselor information. Counselor recommendation, we’re actually uploading the document. Um, the screenshot on the right shows you what that popup looks like, so you’re choosing the file and PDF format, uploading it, and then finally submitting. So pretty, um, self-explanatory, pretty similar to probably what you’re used to.

Again, just a different color scheme and slightly different formatting for you all.

And yeah, Jennifer, I’ll pass it on to you, and I think you’re on mute currently. Um, but Jennifer’s going to take you through the student workflow piece of, um, the integration.

Jennifer Bento: All right, great. Thanks, Andrea. All right. So here we are. Um. We’re going to, um, go through the student workflow piece. Um, so this may look a little bit different, hopefully in a good way.

Um, but the, the student experience and process is [00:16:00] similar to other platforms. So in a perfect world, uh, we want our students to be familiar with MEFA Pathway and hopefully using it to research their colleges, um, using our college compare tool to build out the list of colleges that they, uh, may be applying to.

And um, then when senior year comes, they’re ready to apply. So students will create their. Common app account, they’ll add at least one college, uh, their, they’ll add their decision plans in there and they’ll complete the ferpa. So once they do that, they’ll have their Mefa Pathway account already established and they’ll go on to the my college applications page and they’ll connect those accounts.

So it’s very simple to do. So they’re prompt, they’re prompted to connect those accounts. Um, and in doing so, once they do that, all of the common app. Colleges that they’ve added will appear on their my college applications page in Mefa Pathway. And then they also have the [00:17:00] option to add any non-com app colleges that they’ll be applying to.

So you can see on the screen here on the, on the lower left side, that connect button. So again, very, very obvious to students. They create that common app account. They have their Mefa Pathway account, they go into Mefa Pathway and they connect those accounts. The next page here. Okay, so we’re looking here at, um, the view of the students, uh, my college applications page in MEFA Pathway.

On the right side. On the right side screenshot, you can see the expanded view of the colleges, uh, with the students’ status. Uh, of the transcripts, the counselor recs. Um, here, students can also update their college decisions. So when they hear back from the, the colleges that they’ve applied to, they can update those decisions and then ultimately their file decision.

So that’s all on this expanded view on the my college applications page. [00:18:00] Also in Mefa Pathway, the students, right on that same page, the My college applications page, the students will add any teachers that they want to receive letters of recommendations from. So they simply. Prompt the add. You can see the screenshot here.

They add their recommender on the bottom left. They put in the student’s, uh, excuse me, the teacher’s name, the subject that they teach, they add, and then from there, the student can add, add, uh, requests per college. So they go through all of the colleges that are on their list, and they add those teachers that they want to receive a letter from.

In turn, the teachers receive an email. Saying Bugs Bunny has requested a letter from you with a link to create an account in the teacher portal. Which brings us to the teacher workflow. Andrea, I’m gonna pass that [00:19:00] back to you.

Apelila Joseph: Thanks. Yeah. Something that, um. We hear a lot from schools that are using the integration is, um, a few things that they really like that are maybe a little different. Um, so like, uh, Jennifer said, you know, students are going into each school and picking and choosing from that bank of teachers they’ve added.

And that’s really nice because then you can really customize which letters are being sent to which, uh, colleges. What, what we’ve sort of, um, instituted though is, uh. A digest type of email, so. Teachers will receive one email a day, um, and first thing in the morning recapping all the, uh, prior days requests.

And this is good because, um, MEFA pathway, you know, we have that customization where each college can have customized. Teachers. Um, so if a student has three available teachers they’ve added [00:20:00] to their teacher bank, they can then pick and choose one or two or all three for different colleges. But that doesn’t mean the teacher gets 40 emails, 40 separate emails.

So they would get that digest type of email, um, which is what we sort of mean when we say receive that teacher portal invitation. ’cause on that first request of the year, teachers are getting pinged to create their teacher portal account. That account creation, it’s one page and, um, we’ll show you, it takes, I think about, I’ve done it, teachers have done it, um, and shown me while they’re doing it takes about three minutes to do.

It’s pretty simple. But that is a, a very important step to create that account each year, because that doubles as their teacher portal. Profile. Um, so it’ll ask them to update their ti their full title, their contact, uh, email, their contact number, and all of that serves to pre-populate their teacher common app form.

So that, um, portal account creations really, [00:21:00] really, um, easy. But it has, uh, two purposes and then they can review their teacher portal dashboard. So once they log in, they can see all the requests and um, again, that those bubbles will appear indicating, um. Uh, you know, a to do an action item, um. The, the teachers will then click open bubbles.

They’ll, um, submit their letters of recommendation that will also prompt them to complete the teacher eval cover letter. Again, pre-populated. With all of that in info, they included, um, when they were creating their. Their account and then they’ll upload that PDF for non-com app letters or recommendation.

They’re gonna toggle over to the parchment tab, click on that open bubble those open bubbles, and upload the letter of recommendation. Just as a side note for you all, as I’m sure you’re familiar with now, postal type applications, uh, should be sent directly to the college by the teacher directly or by, you [00:22:00] know, the counselor directly.

Um, and so I think if we go to the next. Page, you’ll see what I’m talking about here. So, um, the screenshot up at the bottom will show you what that teacher portal login looks like, that email address and password. And then of course, if they’re a first time user, they’re gonna, um, click create an account.

As always, if teachers run into issues, if you run into issues, you can contact our team inbox, our K12 [email protected]. Uh, we’re happy to assist, um, as soon as we get that email to troubleshoot any login issues or, or things. But they don’t happen frequently, but we’re we’re there if, if they do. Um, and then of course you can see that the teacher view is sort of a paired down version of what you counselors see.

It follows the same scheme. Um, one student is one line across, and then for, for teachers, they really only have that common app bubble or the parchment [00:23:00] bubble. Um, so you can see that this teacher has already uploaded two letters for Dwight and Michael. Um, so those have already been submitted and sent.

And then, um, pending is, uh, the letter for Pam. Um, so if I’m this teacher I am, that’s gonna prompt me to say, oh, empty bubble, that means it’s incomplete. Let me click into it and, um, and fill out, or fill out the form and upload my, my PDF,

um, apli. I do wanna take us through some of the resources.

Sure. Okay. So just really wanna, um, reiterate here that. Really counselors, schools really come first. Um, and so I talked about this a little bit with one of the questions that came through in the q and a. Um, so we have lots of support available, um, for this integration.

So we have instructional resources available, um, your NEFA pathway, [00:24:00] account managers available. Um, trainings are available, so tailored to your team. Trainings are also eligible for, um, A PDP. Um. We have an instructional guide, so screenshots, anything that you need. So if you’re rolling out, you know, lessons with.

Juniors this spring to sort of prep them for a transition and using a new platform in the fall. Um, lots of resources available to support that. Um, this is my plug. So in, in my role, I’ve really work, um, with our developers as we’re enhancing the site. Um, and so really everything in Mefa pathway comes from direct feedback from our users.

So if there is a certain feature that. Maybe it doesn’t exist or that you think should be tweaked to work a little bit better, um, for you and your school and your needs. Um, we’re not shy, so please, um, share that feedback with us. And we meet with especially our common app Parchment User [00:25:00] Schools every year to directly hear how um, the season went.

And if I can just do a little. Plug right here as well. Um, with our, our students, um, requesting teacher letters of recommendation. Um, a newer feature that’s coming this spring that will be in time for the fall, um, season is students will be able to select their teacher from a bank. So they won’t have to enter in teacher first name, last name, email address.

Um, as a school you can preload a bank of teachers. Um, and then students will still have the option to. Manually add a teacher, uh, for a recommendation request, but they will be able to select from a bank. So I just wanted to, um, plug that next slide please. Uh, so as part of our resources, um, you have access to data.

Uh, so Andrea walked through, um, some of our decision plan summary data, um, from this season. [00:26:00] Um, you all can access data throughout the season. Um, so we have a newer reporting. Features within MEFA Pathway. So you can go in and look at, you know, students that are applying to a certain school. You can look at, um, students that have been accepted somewhere.

Um, so you can slice and dice the data, um, in many different ways, but that is available to you. Um, and then also your account manager will send you, um, some high level summary data as well throughout the season.

So we have a full resource library that includes tutorials for each workflow. Um, so from sort of the counselor side of things, if you wanna look at batch transcript, upload instructions, the annual setup instructions, if you have graduated students that are coming back and now needing to apply to college, and they have questions about, you know, common up says, I have to use me for pathway and [00:27:00] how to do that.

There’s information there, um, how to submit. College application documents. We have all of the student facing videos, so requesting letters of recommendation, connecting their MEFA pathway in common app accounts, adding those non-com app colleges, and of course teacher instruction. So both creating a teacher portal account, um, which is helpful if you do any sort of teacher PDs, um, prepping them for college application season.

Playing that account creation video is helpful ’cause it literally walks through all the steps. Um, as well as submitting letters of recommendation. And then of course, in addition to the resource library, uh, your account manager is available to, you know, provide any additional support or, um, individual training.

Is this my slide too?

Okay. Um, and then of course, delivering guidance. Amfa has a full suite of resources available to, [00:28:00] um, support you all as you are working with students and families through, you know, the, the college application season. Um, so we have live and on-demand webinars available, um, on a variety of topics.

College admissions, financial aid 1 0 1. Um, we have a Mefa podcast, which is really great and there’s lots of, um, different, um, topics covered there related to the college admissions process. Sometimes students are featured in those podcasts. Is that, those are great also, um. We have, are active on our social media and we also have specialized appointments.

So if you have families that are, you know, working through the financial aid process, they have questions, they’re trying to do appeals, um, we have a phone line available and families can sign up for a one-on-one virtual appointment. Um, so again, just additional assistance, um, for you all as you are working with your students and families.

Aila, there’s a question that came through the q and a. We wanna go back to that slide. [00:29:00] Someone’s asking, will there be a webinar that shows what options we have for tracking and helping students who are not college bound? So I just wanted to call out the live and on demand webinar library that we have.

Um, there are certainly top different topics in there, um, that might cover that. And also MEFA Pathway allows students to select, uh, their. Their desired path outside a four year college. So there is a way to track student selected path, um, on the platform as well. I don’t know if elar, Jennifer, you wanna add on?

Just thought it’d be a good moment to, um, answer that question that came through.

Yeah. Um, absolutely. Um. As Andrea mentioned within MEFA Pathway, um, there is a future path option. So students there can pre-select what their future path might be. So if they are career bound, if they’re gonna go and do an apprenticeship, if they’re, you know, entering some sort of workforce training program.

Um, so students can [00:30:00] select that there. Um, and then yes, we also do, um, there’s some great. Webinars available on demand, and then we’ll have more webinars coming up. Um, but I am, I’m thinking about the, um, webinar that was done with in partnership with Next Gen Talent, um, for students that are, you know, maybe looking towards the workforce or not a traditional four year college pathway.

Um, there are lots of resources available on mefa.org.

Jennifer Bento: Yeah, and I’ll just add to our live events that we have, um, throughout the season we offer FAFSA festivals, which are, um, virtual, you know, live events where students and families can join and get, um, one-on-one on, you know, on the spot help from our ex experts.

So, yes, so just, um, keep an eye out on nefa.org on the, actually if you do go right to the four counselors page, you’ll have, um, all of this, um, right at your fingertips as well. That’s great. [00:31:00] Alright, so what’s next? Oh, sh Do we have any out, um, outstanding questions before we tackle the what’s next? Yes.

Apelila Joseph: Yes we do.

Jennifer Bento: Oh, okay. Yeah,

Apelila Joseph: we should probably go through all of those. Yeah. Oh yeah. There’s some great questions.

Jennifer Bento: Okay. Alright. So, um, our screen starts with the student and counselor screens available to use DUR during our junior college admissions workshops. And yes. Um, we can share screenshots with you to use. Um, we also have short student facing videos walking through each step available, um, in our resource library, as Aila pointed out, um, a couple slides ago there.

Um, and if you have, you actually have access, um, to the resource library when you log in right on your dashboard there. It’s, um, it’s a, it’s a quick click when you’re on the main dashboard, um, of the counselor portal. So single sign-on options. Yes. We have, um, three single sign-on options. We have Class Link Clever and [00:32:00] Google Single sign-on, um, class Link being, um, the most, uh, recent edition.

Um, so yes, so students when they log into me for Pathway, they could just, um, use one of those clutter and Class Link do require a setup where Google Single sign-on, um, does not. And we can work with your, um, you know, whomever at your school to get this, um, to get, uh, class link or a clever setup if that’s the direction you wanna go.

All right. Um, yep. Webinars. Okay. Any, let’s see. We have a couple open questions. All right. Here’s one, um, you mentioned bulk upload for initial. Midyear and final transcripts. Is this available for Q1 report cards as well? So at this time, the optional reports, so we have optional one and two, um, are not available via batch.

Not sure if we’ll have that coming down the road, but, um, at this time, um, we do not [00:33:00] off offer that just for the, um, the, the bulk batch upload for the initial mid-year and final only. Thank you for that question though. Uh, and then are students able to request recommendations for non-teachers or outside of school recommenders such as employers, internship supervisors, clergy?

So in Mefa Pathway, students only request letters of recommendation from teachers, anyone outside of a teacher, they do that in their common app account. So they would request any, any. Educator person outside of a teacher in common app, they do not have to request their counselor rec. So that’s something that we’ve seen this year a little bit of, is that students will add their, their counselor, their primary counselor in me, a pathway.

They don’t have to do that. It’s automatic. You see that on your side, in the counselor portal? Um, on the dashboard. Um, a [00:34:00] great question. Thank you. All right. Here’s a, a question that just came in. Um, oh, do, do we have a college, uh, college rep visit scheduling tool? Yes. That’s one of the, the college rep visits.

Uh. We do not currently have that at this time. Not to say we never will, um, but we do have kind of a little bit of a workaround. Um, we have a, a new work-based learning opportunities page that’s available and you could potentially, um, you could potentially manage those visits within there, but we don’t have a tool specific for rep visits at this time.

I don’t know. A did you have anything to add to that or?

Apelila Joseph: Just, I mean, we’ve heard it quite a bit and it, I, I think I can confidently say it is on the roadmap. Um, but it’s not something that we have available, um, currently. And then Jennifer, did you wanna address the, the brag sheet part of [00:35:00] the question as well?

Jennifer Bento: Oh, the brag sheet. Um. Is there a gen way to generate our own brag sheet? So, um, so at, yeah, at this time, we, we do not, um, students cannot attach a brag sheet. We actually had that in the past, and we, um, we disabled it because it, um, it wasn’t being utilized and we, we, uh, surveyed our, our educators and we, so we disabled that.

So we do have a resume tool within the platform so students can create, um, a, you know. Populate their, their profile details and create a resume. So that might be something, you know, that they can attach or they can send, um, they can download their resumes as a PDF and, and or a Word doc. So that might be an option.

But at this, at this time, there’s no, um, way for students to attach, uh, a brag sheet to the actual, uh, request for a teacher.

Apelila Joseph: I have, uh, heard of a few of our partner current partner schools, um, doing a [00:36:00] workaround, which is to upload. Um, we have a document library in the, in the student portal. Um, so students log in and can, and can access that document library.

And so in that document library, there’s a, a space for student uploads and then the space for, um. Teacher or staff uploads. So school uploads rather so a counselor can upload something. So I’ve had, um, a few schools tell me that they’ve been, um, or one school, actually not a few, but one school tell me that, um, they’ve tried to, um, with I think that Success up, upload a document into that library for students to access.

And the document, um, was a fillable, um, sort of document. So they were able, students were able to, um. Complete a brag sheet that way. So again, a workaround, but, um, it’s always nice to get creative. So, um, until we potentially have something like that, there are some, some ways to, to kind of, um, work, work those piece little pieces in.

Jennifer Bento: Great. [00:37:00] Thanks, Andrea. That was good. All right. Any other, any other questions? That looks like a comment. Okay. Um, so what, what to do next? What’s next? Now what, um, we do ask that if you would like to participate in the 2020 6 27 college application cycle. You confirm participation by June one, and there is a form, uh, here’s the QR code.

Again, you’ll be getting these slides so you’ll, you’ll have this, um, QR code. Uh, but this is something you do need to confirm if you want to participate. In the 2020 6 27 college application cycle. It doesn’t just happen just because you’re a Mefa Pathway school. So very important, um, to, to do so, um, prior to the end of the school year, and we asked prior to the end of the school year so that we can get you set up with trainings, whether that’s.

You know, maybe an intro before the end of the school year. [00:38:00] And then really, um, hitting the ground running with a, you know, a good solid training come. The, you know, a lot of our schools will do a training towards the end of August, um, being of September. Um, but we, you know, we, we really want all of our schools to participate in a training so that you’re familiar, you’re comfortable, and especially if you are transitioning from another platform, um, you know, that you, that you are, um, comfortable with, um, the upcoming season.

Um, here is also, uh, a link, uh, to register or a QR code to register for our MEFA Institute webinars. Uh, we have a host of topics available. Uh, you can earn your PDP points. Uh, we keep track of those PDP points and once you get to 10 you get a certificate. So something to, to strive for. And then also we host monthly office hours.

Uh, these are all listed out on our pre. Pre login, landing page to the counselor [00:39:00] portal. But here’s our most, uh, upcoming one right here on March 25th, 12 to one. You can join anytime during the hour. Aila, Andrea and myself are there, uh, to, to a answer any of your questions. So feel free to pop in. But also I will, um, I, I, I’ll drive home to that.

We’re all here, um, to really, um, you know, answer your questions outside of, you know, outside of this webinar, outside of our office hours. So don’t ever hesitate to reach out to us. Um, if you have any questions, if you wanna maybe, you know, meet with us to go through some of these, some of what we saw today.

So we, um, we really, um, encourage that.

All right. Oh, here, question came in. Do you have a list of counselors at your partner’s schools that are willing? Oh, that’s a great question to be contacted. Um, we had a user group last week, um, with our participating schools, and that was one of the questions, would you be willing? [00:40:00] So yes, we do have a couple of, uh, educators, school counselors that are willing to be connected.

Uh. So we can, we can follow up with that. Um, and most curious about the transition, how Yes. Right. How they’ve developed buy-in from their counselors, students, and families. Yes. So we can certainly connect you, um, with, with, um, with an educator, um, to have those conversations. All right. Thank you for that question.

That’s great. And that’s helpful too, right? You need to, if you’re gonna transition, you wanna speak to, to other schools that have, um, you know, have, have gone that same route. Okay. No, I don’t see any open questions in the, in the qa. All right, so we can wrap up. Thank you so much for joining us today. Um, we hope we’ve kind of shed some light on, on our, our common app parchment integration process and all that we offer.

Um, and we, and I will say, [00:41:00] just in closing, that, you know, we, we, again, are here to help and we do pride ourselves in our support that we offer. So don’t, again, don’t ever hesitate to reach out to us and thank you for joining us today, and you’ll be getting the follow up. With the slides and the recording and um, have a great day.

Thank you.