We all have different ways of working and managing information. Cialfo empowers clients to customize certain features on the platform. Account Configure is your control tower, it impacts how your students, staff, and parent/guardian community experience Cialfo. To select which Application Regions and countries are available for your student's university search, please see this helpful article.

Note: Only Administrators have access to this page. Any changes made in Account Configure apply to all users associated with your account.

To start, click the chevron in the upper right corner and select 'Configuration'.

Pro Tip: Remember to press save within each section for changes to apply.

Select the timezone and region/residence where your school is located.

You can choose if you want the students and guardians to see which groups they are assigned to.
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Note: For the option Student can See Group Assignment, please note that they can not only see the assignment but also assign groups to themselves.

You can customize what default data will display on Scattergram. Scattergrams appear when looking at a specific school's information using the School Search function. Updating the default start and end year can provide a helpful parameter.

Cialfo serves thousands of schools around the world.  If you opt-in, your data is anonymously shared and you can enable students and or staff to view the network data.  You can toggle this off and on if you want to view it both ways before deciding what default setting you will use.

For more information, please refer to this video.

Within the Cialfo family of users exists dozens of GPA scales.  We have standardized all GPAs to a 4.0 scale.  If your school uses a different GPA range (not 4.0), enter your program's minimum and maximum GPA range, press "update" and the Cialfo algorithm will calculate the conversion for you.

Here is where you customize permissions for students. Remember to press save when making changes.

Cialfo sends out notifications to staff and students alike and by default, it's sent from a Cialfo email address. You can customize this feature and input a sender name to make it more personalized and also ensure that the replies go directly to you or your school.

As an Admin-Counselor for your school, you can choose to allow non-Admin Counsellors to:

This set of configurations is for both students and guardians and will determine if a guardian and/or student can add or remove colleges and universities from the student’s lists.

Cialfo has curated a list of popular and recognized providers of school profile information. Based on your school's preferences, you can choose which links are shown to your students and which ones are hidden.  

Pro Tip: Click the blue checks to unselect and remember to choose 'overwrite existing' or simply 'update' before pressing save.

Customize the content displayed in school profiles using the School Search feature.

Inside Scoop: Applicants are by default unselected.  
This is where your team can view detailed applicant history, including the student's full name, GPA, test score, and outcome for a specific school.  

Because of the highly confidential nature of this information, we encourage counseling teams to discuss activating this section.  It's a layer of protection so that someone does not accidentally display this information in a 1:1 meeting with a student or worse during a classroom or large presentation.

You can set your default academic system here.  Add terms per grade and indicate the Grade default per level. 

Note: this feature is very helpful for some programs and not used by others. Discuss with your Customer Success On-boarding Manager to determine what is best for your program.

The link above offers an in-depth look at customizing cDocs in this section. In this section, you manage recommendations and configurations for college document sending.

Pro Tip: Do you want students to request teacher recommendations directly on the platform? Or do you want to manage the teacher recommendations without students inviting teachers?  Either method is an excellent option depending on your workflow and organization.

Note: Counselor and Teacher Recommendations both fall under Common Application's One And Done Policy.

This section is where you label and assign a grade level to students by high school graduation year.  

Found at the bottom of the page, you can upload or update your school's logo.

In Account Configuration, you can add customized college flags.

Here is where you can decide if you would like Cialfo to update students and or guardians about virtual college fairs, webinars, or other programming hosted by Cialfo and free for our users.

Here is where you can decide if you want your students to discover and research universities easily with an additional rankings filter so that they are able to filter down on the universities based on their preferences and requirements efficiently.

Now you (Counselors) can decide whether you want to allow your students to make connections with the universities.

You have completed the Account Configure setup!  

Please use the Chat with Cialfo function if you have any immediate questions or reach out to your Customer Success Manager directly for additional support.

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