Product Announcement—February 4, 2022

Coming Soon

For all users…

Blurry Backgrounds

In the coming weeks, blurry backgrounds for virtual appointments, virtual info chats, and virtual fairs will be available for all users. This has been a highly requested feature and we’re excited to be improving the quality of all virtual connections in the near future. Please note that this initial version will only be compatible with Google Chrome and not available on mobile devices.

For Career Services...

Session Timeouts

Later this spring, Handshake will begin enforcing session timeout limits for all students and career services users—these limits dictate how long you can use Handshake before you’re asked to re-login for security purposes.

• Once we begin enforcing session timeout limits, your team will be able to use the User timeout field on the SSO preferences page to dictate how often career services users at your institution will be asked to re-login. If you leave the field blank, we’ll default to a 36 hour (2,160 minute) timeout window. We recommend checking this field and updating it to at least 2,160 minutes.
• All students will be subject to a 90 day session timeout window—a standard length for consumer applications.