Gearing up for a big summer!
For many of us in the higher ed world, summer is a chance to tackle those high impact projects that always seem to fall to the wayside in the fall and spring when students are on campus. At uConnect, we have big things planned to make this summer as productive and organized as possible to truly set you up for success in the new year. Before we dive into what we have planned for June, let’s start with a quick recap of the highlights from May.
If you have questions on anything mentioned below, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at support@gouconnect.com!
May Recap
uConnect has partnered up with Candid Career, which has led to two major updates. The first is an improved viewing experience for your students!
Now, all of the specific sections of Candid Career interviews are housed in one video post, with specific buttons to skip to the parts you want to learn more about, like ‘Job Description’, ‘Loves & Challenges’, etc. This means you can easily click from one clip to another, rather than having to search for the next clip in a separate post. This new update also more closely reflects the viewing experience within Candid Career, to give your students a more familiar experience! Click the button below to read more and see examples!
The second update is a new free trial of our Candid Career integration!
If you’re not already taking advantage of our integration with Candid Career videos, you can sign up for a free trial to test out the videos on your platform from now until Dec. 31, 2022! You can opt in to the free trial, or RSVP to our upcoming information webinar on the the trial to learn more, below!
Opt-in to the Trial RSVP to the Webinar
In other news, our much loved blog integration with the Vault is finally back, and under a new name!
We know how much you loved the Vault blog feed in your external content library, and we’re happy to report that it’s now syncing again, under a new name! You can now find all previously imported Vault blogs, and a dynamically updated feed of new posts under Firsthand Blogs.
We made a small update to the language used in our Labor Market Insights module.
If you’re leveraging our Labor Market Insights module (powered by proprietary job market data sourced by Emsi), you may have noticed a small update to the language used to describe the critical skills necessary to succeed in a given career path. Previously, these skills were referred to as ‘Soft Skills’, but the language has been adjusted to read ‘Core Competencies’ to better reflect the essentiality and critical nature of these abilities. To learn more about the Labor Market Insights module in general, check out our Emsi community page below.
Learn More about Labor Market Insights
Upcoming + Continued Priorities for June
We’re updating our integration with Symplicity to enable more granular import capabilities!
We’re expanding the details that we can import through our integration with Symplicity to allow you to more intentionally filter and curate events imported from Symplicity! Soon, you’ll be able to include events tagged by class level. More on this soon!
We’re releasing an update to our form builder!
This update will include a beautiful, restyled form editor, intuitive drag-and-drop column control, and new markup and styles to ensure a streamlined and extremely user-friendly form building experience. Importantly, this update also sees a key focus on accessibility, enabling you to be able to create totally accessible, WCAG 2.1 AA compliant, forms for your users. More on this to come!
We’re expanding the Block editor to bring more flexibility and formatting options to your platform!
We’re upgrading our text editing tools to utilize the highly flexible Block editor technology. This upgrade allows you to format and style your content with much more control and stylistic control, to improve your editing experience, and to build more visually engaging posts for your students and stakeholders! Right now, you can opt in to start using this upgrade on your blog content and custom pages. Over the summer, we’ll be working to extend the editor to your communities and resource content, starting first with resources.
If you don’t currently have the block editor enabled for Custom Pages or Blogs (or aren’t sure), and you’d like to enable it, reach out to us at support@gouconnect.com! It’s completely free, and included as we work to add continuously evolving value to your virtual career center.
We’re building the ability to restrict content based on end-user profile attributes!
It’s in progress! With this new release, you’ll be able to set specific visibility permissions for individual pieces of content, based on SSO authentication, or individual profile settings! Now, you can easily host all your resources – for faculty, students, and more – all within uConnect, without needing to lock your entire site.
