Once your AURA listing is approved, you must start managing your applicants. AURA provides several tools to help you customize your opportunity's application process. These include exporting your opportunity, controlling your opportunities visibility and applicant filters, editing the questions asked to applicants, and exporting your applicants list. Let's explore what each section in the applicant management dashboard does.

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This section is dedicated to exporting your opportunity. This is where you can copy HTML to embed in your website, copy a direct link to your application, and get a QR code to apply to your listing. Having an external way to reach your listing helps improve the accessibility of your opportunity by funneling students from all over the internet to the right place.

Visibility & Filters

This section controls who can see and apply to your opportunity. There are three individual settings to be found here. The first setting under "Visibility" controls whether or not your opportunity can appear in an AURA search. If you select "private," students can only apply to your opportunity if you directly provide them with the link. If you select "public," your opportunity will appear in search results on the AURA website. Next, there are two settings under "Applicant Filters." These settings help you control who can apply to your project. The first setting, "University Affiliation," allows you to choose whether or not a student needs to attend your university to apply. The following setting, "Allowed Field(s) of Study," allows you to choose what degree programs students must pursue to apply to your listing. By leaving this blank, you can enable students of any degree to apply.

Application Form

You can create any question(s) students must respond to when applying to your listing. You can create as many questions as you would like, but we recommend limiting your questions to less than five. You can also use these fields to request additional information that students may not have in their profile, like asking for a link to a transcript.

Applicants

This is where each applicant to your opportunity will appear. You can see the answers to all your application questions and some basic information about the student. You'll also receive a link to the student's AURA profile. If you scroll to the bottom of this section, you can export the applications to a CSV file. This is helpful for opportunities that receive large numbers of applications.