The Post-Graduate (Research) Management System (PGR System)

The PGR system has been developed by Peter Lightbody and Marc Hanheide based on a requirement analysis with the College of Science at the University of Lincoln to support the formal processes of studying towards a PGR degree.

Core Features

The system is a self-hosted solution providing an easy to use online browser-based management interface for PGR student, their supervisors, and the respective administrators that are involved in the PGR procedures. It is currently hosted on University of Lincoln servers. A brief summary of the main features:

• Saml2 login via an institution's single-sign-on (SSO) page (e.g. at the University of Lincoln). Any student or member of staff can authenticate and gain access to the data base in principle, however, different user roles restrict access as appropriate
• management of student records (including interruptions, programmes enrolled on, status, etc), supervisors, and management of compulsory and optional milestones forming part of a PGR journey
• support for a simple workflow of submitting and approving documentation required for PGR milestones, as detailed in PGR regulations
• Email notifications system informing about workflow events (submission and approvals of documentation), and reminding of upcoming milestones
• Flexible reporting (versatile filtering and querying) and export to Excel, PDF, as well as direct printing.

Issues can be viewed and reported either directly in GitHub or reported without a GitHub account here.