Completing progress reports - staff

Staff Guidelines for Completing Online Reports in the Postgraduate Records database

• Log-in to SPIDER as normal
• Go to tools and under Databases click on postgraduate records

Option 1

• Click on Progress & Reports

• you will see a list of your students, alongside their reports. A traffic light system indicates the status of each report:

red - not started
amber - in progress and saved
green - completed

each square represents the status as it applies to the individuals who need to complete the various sections in each report. Reports with a red border on a pink background are overdue, a green border on pale grey are completed and those with a black border on a dark grey background indicates reports in the future which are not yet due.

click on the report you wish to complete, and you can then fill in the report - see Complete the report, below

Option 2

• click on the View/ edit records link

• under the My Students heading, click on the student who's report you wish to complete

• Click on the Reports & PDP tab

• Click on edit next to the report you wish to complete

Complete the report

• select relevant options and enter your comments in the form. If a section is 'greyed out' then it should be completed by another user - in the form below, the supervisor completes the first 8 questions, the student the next and the final part by the HoD.

• click save to store your changes to resume later; click submit to save and mark your contribution as completed - you cannot make changes to a submitted report.