ISSS Student: Site Settings Follow

The Site Settings page serves as the site settings hub for both ISSS Student and ISSS Scholar. This article contains information about the Site Setting tab and links to articles regarding the other tabs found in the Site Settings menu.

The following can be configured from the Site Settings menu: 

• Site Settings (General)
  • • Site Primary Colors
    • Login Appearance
    • ISSS Student (Enable)
    • Document Previsualization
• H-1B Request Settings
• O-1 Request Settings
• J-1 Request Settings
• Import Data
  • • Import Departments and Department Admins
    • Import Data for H-1B Scholars
    • Import Data for J-1 Scholars
    • Import O-1 Scholars
    • Import New Sponsorship Requests
• Additional Settings
  • • Student Visas
    • Batch Manager Settings
    • Payment Settings
    • Docusign Configuration
    • Comment Titles
    • Email Contacts

Access

The Site Settings tab can be accessed as follows:

1) Click the Hamburger Menu icon in the top right of the page

2) Select Configuration > Site Settings. 

Site Settings

Upon navigating to Configuration > Site Settings, admins will land on the Site Settings tab by default.

Important Note: Changes made on the Site Settings tab impact both Student and Scholar. 

The Site Settings tab allows admins to take the following actions: 

Configure Your Site's Primary and Secondary Color

Note: It is not recommended to set black or white as primary or secondary colors. Doing so will cause interruptions with hard-coded font colors.

Customize Your Login

• Institution Login Welcome Text will appear at the top of the Login Portal (A)
• Institution Login Button Text will appear on the internal login button (B)
• The uploaded Login Page Logo will display at the top of the modal (C).

Note: The image should be no bigger than 150x150 pixels.

Enable ISSS Student

Important Note:  This toggle should not be used until your institution completes an adoption round with assistance from Terra Dotta. Click here to learn more about this process: Transitioning to ISSS Student

Enable/Disable Document Previsualization

Document Previsualization allows admins to preview documents before downloading or printing them. This setting can be enabled or disabled by navigating to Site Settings>Document Previsualization and selecting Yes or No: 

The admin should then select click Update and Synchronize and Apply changes.

To see this feature in action, open a record and navigate to the Documents tab: 

Next, click the file name to launch the document preview modal: 

From here, the admin can choose to print, download, or close the document. 

The following file types are able to be previewed:

• • • • PDF
      • TXT
      • Images (PNG, JPG, GIF, BMP, etc.)

Other file types, such as zip files and Microsoft documents, (XLS, DOC, DOCX, PPT,  PPTX), cannot be previewed at this time, 

Applying Changes

Once the admin is sure of the actions/changes they have taken on the Site Settings page, they should click Update and Synchronize and Apply changes, (found at the bottom of the page), before leaving the Site Settings tab.