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For Students & Families: Redesigned Dashboards
We’ve refreshed both the student and parent/guardian dashboards! These changes were made to reduce clutter, bring more clarity, and make it easier...
We're excited to share a new experience in Scoir for Teacher Recommendations! . 🚀
Now, teachers can provide additional context and information about applicants that colleges find valuable. Plus, the updates support Common App requirements for schools choosing to integrate in the 2025-26 application year. 🎉
Let's dive in.
Teachers now have the opportunity to complete a more robust evaluation of students, including:
The recommendation experience allows teachers to go beyond the basics and share additional information about a student’s academic journey, classroom character, and potential, all in one place. Watch a product walkthrough to see what’s changed.
Moving forward, teachers will need to complete a few new fields in their Scoir profile to submit recommendations. These updates ensure that colleges have important context about the recommender. Here’s what’s changed:
🔔 If a teacher is missing required information, they’ll see a banner in Scoir prompting them to update those fields in order to complete their recommendation.
Now, teachers will see new required fields on a Student Evaluation form when writing letters, helping build more robust and powerful recommendations for students.
These new fields include:
Teachers will still submit the letter as usual, either uploading a PDF or writing directly in Scoir, with more required context.
🔔 If a teacher has already submitted a recommendation for the Class of 2026, it’s been reopened and will reappear in their “Outstanding Requests” list so they can complete the new fields.
Teachers now have the option to provide a brief student rating. While optional, we highly recommend encouraging teachers to complete this step because it adds meaningful depth to a student’s application.
By sharing more about the student, teachers help colleges make better decisions—and help students put their best foot forward.
✅ We encourage you to share these changes with teachers! You can use our Letters of Recommendation Checklist to help guide teachers through the new process.
✅ If you asked teachers to hold off on completing their LORs while we updated the experience in Scoir, please let them know they can now be completed. Any recommendations already submitted for the Class of 2026 have been reopened and will reappear in the teacher’s “Outstanding Requests” list so they can complete the new fields and access the optional student ratings.
✅ For more details on teacher recommendations when integrating with Common App, check out the FAQ, where we answer questions like what changes when uploading letters on behalf of teachers, if students can choose which letter goes to which college, and more.
✅ Continue checking your inbox for updates on the upcoming Common App integration. Soon, we’ll send a form where you can confirm whether your school will be opting in or out.
Thanks for all you do to support students and teachers. We hope these enhancements make Letters of Recommendation & Evaluations more meaningful and useful for everyone involved.
‼️ If your school isn’t planning on leveraging the Common App Integration and you prefer Scoir’s original recommendation process, please have your Scoir Admin reach out to your Customer Success Manager to learn how to disable this setting.
As always, we'd love to hear your thoughts! We're all ears.👂
Valerie Russell is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Scoir.
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