Clearing Plus

To go to your provider dashboard, head to ucas.com/providers and sign in.

Click on your name in the top right corner and select ‘Dashboard’.

Your dashboard will load like below. If you can’t see the Clearing Plus courses or Clearing Plus applicant tiles, it’s because you haven’t been given permission. You’ll need to ask your Primary Correspondent to give you these. 

From your provider dashboard, select the ‘Clearing Plus courses’ tile.

From here you can choose the courses you want to make available in Clearing Plus.

You can add your specific matching criteria by clicking into each course to ‘Add and set course criteria’ or by using the bulk management functionality.

If you don’t update the default options, your courses won’t be targeted and will be seen by all students using Clearing Plus. 

You can add course matching criteria for both specific qualifications and grades achieved and for measures of disadvantage. 

Qualification criteria: matching students who have achieved specific grades or specific qualifications: A level, Access to HE, International Baccalaureate (IB), Welsh Baccalaureate, Highers, and a range of BTECs.

To set up qualification criteria, tick the qualification and set the grade, subject and number of qualifications students need to have achieved.

You can leave the grade and subject fields blank if you want to indicate a qualification level without specifying a particular subject or any specific level. 

Please note if you apply a minimum entry requirement, your course will not show to anyone who does not meet it.

Measures of disadvantage: matching students from specific POLAR and/or SIMD. To set criteria relating to measures of disadvantage, simply remove the ticks of the POLAR or SIMD profiles you don’t want to match to. 

When Clearing opens on 5 July you can view your interested applicant lists (see below)  from the ‘Clearing Plus applicants’ tile on your provider dashboard. 

From here you’ll see a list of applicants that have shown an interest in your courses which you can download as a csv file – see csv example (10.24 KB). You’ll be able to see their PID and contact details, allowing you to look up their application and get in touch to discuss their eligibility for your courses. 

After your conversation, the student can decide whether to add your course to their application. As ever, your admissions teams have the final say over who they admit onto their courses.

Please note, matches to specific qualification and grade criteria will only appear once applicants have received their results.

Offers complete creative control over the email design.

• Full creative control
• Can be your own HTML or one of our normal templates – UCAS email specs apply
• Track individual triggered emails

Your creative will be added into our Clearing Plus email template. Please supply the following assets to services@ucas.ac.uk:

• Logo
• Three links (Need to be https links for tracking)
  • Website link
  • Prospectus
  • Contact
• Banner (optional)
• Please note changes cannot be made and individual email tracking isn't possible

Clearing Plus will be available to students from 5 July to 20 October. 

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Only applicants who are in an ‘Unplaced’ state can access matched courses from Clearing Plus via their application. If an applicant is placed, and wants to view their options within Clearing Plus, they will need to decline their firm place to become unplaced.

Unplaced students eligible for Clearing can view their status on the Hub where Clearing Plus courses are displayed behind the View matched courses button. They will see an initial list of up to 50 courses and providers that are ranked by strength of match. This can be expanded to display more matches. 

This year, we will only be using ABL qualifications. So, applicants with non-ABL qualifications will be expected to use Clearing in the traditional way.

It’s most likely because of either: 

• The applicant has only made a single choice application in the main cycle (which has been unsuccessful or declined).  

• The applicant is placed and therefore not eligible to use Clearing. 

The provider dashboard is where you can access a number of our provider services and tools - including the Clearing Plus functionality from 12 June. Below is an illustration of a dashboard:

To go to your dashboard, head to ucas.com/providers and sign in. Click on your name in the top right corner and select ‘Dashboard’. Your dashboard will load. If you can’t see the Clearing Plus courses or Clearing Plus applicant tiles, it’s because you haven’t been given permission. You’ll need to ask your Primary Correspondent to give you these. 

• Click 'Register'. 
• Enter your name and select Next. 
• Enter your email address and select Next. 
• Create a password and select Next. 
• Pick a security question, supply an answer, and select Next. 
• Read and agree to the T&Cs and privacy policy, and select Register. 
• You will receive an email containing a link to activate your account. 
• Once you’ve received the email, click the Activate account link to complete your registration.

• Manage courses in Clearing Plus: Users can add or remove course from Clearing Plus and manage course criteria. Both Primary Correspondents and collection tool users will be given default permission to manage courses.   
• View matched applicants: Users can see a list of applicants who have said they are interested in their courses. Only Primary Correspondents will be given default access to view matched applicants as from this view users have access to applicants' personal data.

How to update your enhanced profile: 

• Updating your enhanced profile is actioned via the dashboard rather than provider pages.
• The logo will be the same across the whole of the UCAS estate. If you wanted to update your logo you need to contact coursesdata@ucas.ac.uk
• To update the tagline, please click in to the Clearing Plus courses tile from the dashboard and there should a be a button – Enhance profile options on the right hand side of the screen.
• On the following page you will have an option to add a tagline.

• Colleagues with ‘User management’ authority who have Clearing Plus permissions will be able to grant permission to additional users. From the permissions screen they will be two new tick boxes to select.  
• If you want to add users who are not currently registered on ucas.com they’ll need to register.