Release 31/03/2024
Main Feature | Enhancement Details |
Pay Fees: Public Portal | Public portal: Extra field ‘Given Name or Family Name’ is added when Pay Fee is accessed from the public portal. Student details can only be retrieved with the correct combination of Reference Number (Student ID or Offer Number) and Name, to protect from unauthorised access to student information. This will ensure that only authorised users with all required information can proceed to next step, enhancing the overall security of the Pay Fees feature. (Note: This is only applicable for providers who are using the Pay Fees feature) |
Student Online Application: Public Portal and Agent Portal | In Public portal and Agent Portal >> "Student Application" >> "Continue a saved online application" feature extra field Given Name or Family Name is added in combination with the Saved Applicant ID or Email to protect from unauthorised access to applicant information. Users will be given five attempts to try to retrieve the application details. If failed to do so, users will be able to retry after 60 minutes. Furthermore, all attempts, failed and succeeded, will be tracked through ‘User Activity IP Tracker’ feature. This enhancement will ensure that only authorised users with all required information can proceed to continue saved online application. |
Scholarship | With the latest scholarship feature developed, if turned on upon request for existing providers who are using the old scholarship feature, the following changes will be seen by the user:
Note: · No changes to providers who have not requested feature update. · Scholarship only applicable to Course type: Higher Ed |
Compliance > VSL | · Implementation of new VET Student Loan Statement of Covered Fees Template in the system to be used for VSL-approved clients. A VSL Statement of Covered Fees must be issued when the provider has enrolled a student in a course, they must give the student a written statement as to whether or not the enrolment is accepted on the basis that some or all of the tuition fees for the course will be covered by a VSL. Where tuition fees are covered by a VSL, they are known as ‘*covered fees*’ · The template is designed in accordance with the VSL guidelines for providers and contain the college, student and course enrolment information. The template can be accessed via the Bulk Generate CAN/Invoice Page from the system and can be made available for VSL clients upon request. If VSL client needs this template, they can request Meshed group and the template will be enabled for their respective platform. |