We heard you again! Based on a wide range of feedback from our campus partners, we’re happy to release the new annotations feature in both ByCommittee Faculty Search and ByCommittee Promotion & Tenure. Now you can make notes to yourself on candidate materials as you read. Along the way, we’ve made some improvements to the document viewer throughout the platform.
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If you’re a user of our Dossier service, you’ll notice a sleeker, simpler recommendation request page starting today. In response to ample user feedback and patterns observed across customer support conversations, we’re renovating our letter request features in a few key ways. It’s going to make the whole process easier.
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We’re excited to roll out an updated appearance for our user account dashboard (the home page that displays when a user signs into their Interfolio account) and for our Dossier, Portfolio, and Letter Writer products. For the time being, the changes are only cosmeticall the same pages retain the same functionality they had beforebut they should make our platform easier and more consistent to navigate. Continue reading “User Account Dashboard Gets A New Look (and Dossier, Portfolio, Letter Writer Get A Paint Job)”

A big improvement has come to institutional structure in our ByCommittee platform! In light of recent conversations with institutions using the platform, we have expanded the available hierarchy to accommodate any number of administrative levels—making it possible for even institutions with more distinctive structures to benefit from academic committee support software.

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We’re proud to say we have (at last!) removed a well-known obstacle that sometimes slowed the submission of recommendations to Interfolio. From now on, when you send an Interfolio recommendation request via email, the letter writer will be able to submit their letter in a few simple clicks, without having to sign in or create an account. Along the way, this update taught us more about the balance between security and ease of use. See also: The Letter Writer’s Guide to Interfolio Continue reading “Submit recommendations without an account!”