Prograds Basics: The Screens
A tour of the four screens of Prograds
It's easiest to understand how to work with Prograds if you understand what the screens are and who can see them. Fundamentally, Prograds is about a screen for each Student, one for each Faculty member, and one for Administrators (Staff and DGS). There are a few more behind the scenes, but these three are the core of the system. All users have a Profile page that can only be accessed by the user themselves and the administrative users. Faculty can’t see Students’ profile pages.
The Student Progress Page
For details and how to use it, see The Student Progress Page
The Student’s Progress Page is a screen where Students and Faculty see the same information: all about the student's progress, funding, what they're working on, events, and courses taken. Administrators can see this screen too, of course.
The Student, Faculty Supervisor, and Adminstrators can add and edit Requirements, Employment, Funding, Events, and Courses.
Milestones are set at the program level and can only be marked as completed or approved and have notes added to.
The Faculty Dashboard Page
For details and how to use it, see The Faculty Dashboard
The Faculty Dashboard Page shows Students Supervised, Students whose committee the faculty member is on, and Graduated Students.
Clicking anywhere on the student's entry brings you to the student’s Progress page — except clicking on the envelope, which takes you to the student's Messages page.
It also shows a chronological listing of Events and Updates for all of that faculty member's students, and separately, a list of Milestones completed.
Note: Faculty can go to their students' pages quickly from the dropdown in the middle of the header bar.
The Admin Tools Page
This page contains all the tools that Admin will need to manage their Department and Programs.
On the left side of this page you will find tabs to edit or update the Department Settings, Program Settings, Milestones, Requirements, Funding, Courses, Publications, Reports, and Usage.
Department & Program Settings Screens
All of the settings for the Department and its Programs can be found under their respective tabs on the Admin Tools page.
In the Department Settings tab you set the Department information, the Administrative users, its Programs, Funding Sources, Courses, and Labs. For more information on how to set up and edit a department’s settings check out the Set up a Department page.
Clicking into the Program Settings tab lets you set the Program's Stages, Milestones, and Requirements. For more information on how to set up and edit a Program check out the Set up Programs page.
Additional Screens
Currently, Prograds also has:
- User Profile screens
- A student-committee Messages screen
- A student Files listing
- A Funding roll-up screen/table for Administrators
Last updated on April 6, 2022