Graduate Student Progress
There's too much stress and struggle in graduate school. Clear vision of milestones, for everyone, will help.
Program staff need a better way to track student progress. They're the only people on campus without software built for what they do. Until now.
Smoother progress with less stress.
Better communication. Better supervision.
Some Prograds Users
Prograds connects the sides of the progress triangle
Student - Committee - Program
Prograds is first and foremost for students
Yes, it'll make tracking students and their funding much more efficient and reliable.
But first and foremost we built Prograds for students and their advisors.
Our mission is to help students finish their degree just a little bit sooner and with less stress.
Administrators, faculty, and students should be able to clearly see the student's pathway
Milestones due soon or overdue
What they're working on currently
What courses they've taken
Their funding and TA/RA work
Who's on the committee
Events like conferences, internships, training
Automatic Monthly
Reminders
Students and their supervisors get a monthly email showing upcoming and overdue milestones and requirements. Everyone is on the same page, up to date.
Ideal Dates & Deadline Dates
Deadlines are stressful. Programs expect milestones and requirements to be met at a certain points in the degree. So Prograds has ideal dates before deadline dates to show the timeline in a gentler way.
The Student's Canvas
Students need faculty to see their progress without feeling like they are constantly bugging their supervisor and committee. So at the top of the page, students enter Working On items and Events.
For students
You're in control
Information about your progress is hidden away in the program office, and it's probably up to date, but it would be nice if you could check it and take control of it.
Prograds lets you clearly see and take control of your path through the degree.
Prograds is built mostly for students. That's why the top part of the student progress page lets you document what you're working on. YOU get to input data: completion of milestones and requirements, plus events like conferences and publications. You can sleep easier knowing that your advisors are up to speed on your progress.
When you meet with faculty, they'll have your Student Progress Page up so you can start without a long update. You can put meeting notes in Prograds as an Event so nothing gets lost.
For Faculty
A simple dashboard of all your students with their latest milestones and what they're working on currently. Click through to each student's Progress Page.
No more annoying requests to the student or administrators for the information you need to help the student. And this makes it so much easier to write reference letters.
The best feature for supervisors and committee members is the student's "Working On" area. With a quick left-to-right chronological scroll through it, you're totally up to date before you meet a student.
For administrators
Complete Information Management
All your student information in one place
- Approvals are all digital with automatic email notifications and an approval history log
- Student funding timeline display
- Upload forms to milestones and requirements
- Student file uploads
- Automatic reminders to students and faculty
- Spreadsheet-like editable tables of milestones, requirements, and funding
- Export data or pdf reports by student or for the whole program
- Email to any filtered subset of students
... and lots more
Testimonials
Prograds Users
We can put you in touch with Prograds users: Directors of Graduate Studies and Grad Program Coordinators in a discipline like yours.
“It's been super helpful for us already, and we are for sure underutilizing it! I find that the younger students have adopted it and use it more than the older ones so I think that in the next year we'll see an even bigger payoff. ”
Margaret Stratton
Graduate Program Director
Molecular & Cell Biology
University of Massachusetts Amherst
"Prograds has been convenient for tracking the student's progress in their program and keeping student records that are accessible at all times to the student, their supervisory committee, and the graduate program staff."
Adrianne Chang and Hotze Rullmann
Graduate Program Assistant &
Graduate Program Advisor, Linguistics
University of British Columbia
Request access to our demo site so you can try Prograds and get a feel for how it works
I designed Prograds after my years as a grad student and two decades of supervising students.
I wanted students to have more clarity and more agency as they progress through all the milestones and requirements in their program. And I couldn't believe we were still operating with 1990s technology (emails and spreadsheets) in 2020!
I was sure that my own department's students could progress more smoothly if we had a single source of up-to-date information about each student, available online to all of the key people, especially the students themselves. I know program staff and faculty advisors struggle with reminding the students about milestones and requirements coming due, so why not have automatic email reminders? And I think our best design feature is to have ideal dates and deadline dates for milestones and requirements.
I'm certain Prograds will improve student progress in any graduate program.
- Fred Cutler, Political Science, UBC - Vancouver
fred.cutler@ubc.ca
Get in touch to learn more about Prograds
Get access to our Demo site and schedule a call with Prograds founder Prof. Fred Cutler.
Example Automatic Email Reminder
Dear Gabriela,
Here is your monthly program milestones and requirements reminder email. If anything is inaccurate or inapplicable, please correct it on your Prograds progress page or contact your program advisor.
If this email is empty, wonderful! You’re totally up to date.
Remember, you can mark milestones and requirements complete yourself and then they get approved by the program office.
Overdue Milestones:
- Choose Exam Fields due Mar 20, 2023
- Satisfy grade minimums due May 20, 2023
- Complete Methods Course due June 20, 2023
Milestones due soon:
Milestones past their ideal date:
- Confirm Supervisor was ideally due on May 20, 2023 Identify provisional supervisor was ideally due on Sep 20, 2022
Milestones coming up to their ideal date:
- Complete/Pass Comprehensive Exam will be ideally completed by Sep 29, 2023
Overdue Requirements:
- Professionalization Course due Sep 20, 2022 Statistics test due May 20, 2023
Requirements due soon:
- Safety Training will be due Nov 4, 2023
Requirements past their ideal date:
- Teaching Assistant 1 term minimum was ideally due on May 20, 2022 Ethics Training was ideally due on May 20, 2023
Best wishes,
The Prograds Team in Vancouver, BC, Canada
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