CURRENT PGR STUDENT INFORMATION

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Book Activities On Inkpath - Step by Step

• Log into your Inkpath app or desktop account
• Navigate to 'Find Activites' to search for activities appropriate for you
• Select course and date
• A description will appear with a 'Book place on activity' button
• Approval of your booking will appear along with extra info you may need, for example, reading materials, location, cancel button
• Once booked you will receive a confirmation email
• Recording your attendance: A QR code or attendance code will be generated for each event and emailed to the presenter to give to you at the end of the activity for you to scan on your phone or enter the code manually in your student profile.
• When marking your activity as complete you can log your hours, rate it, recommend it and give feedback.
• All activities booked show up on your profile
• If you book a multi-day activity, you must be available to attend all days
• Courses will not show on your HEAR transcript but will remain in your Inkpath profile. When you have completed the Graduate Skills Pathway, this will show in your HEAR transcript as three courses.

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Add Activities to your Inkpath Profile - Create Your Graduate Skills Pathway

• Log into Inkpath
• Go to 'Create Activity'
• Choose 'Create my own goal'
• Set up your own pathway of activites that are listed on Inkpath and also add external activities you participated in - workshops, conferences, poster presentations, journal submission acceptances, etc.
• View your progress in goal details.
• Some activities will not show on your HEAR transcript from MyCampus but will remain in your Inkpath profile.
• All activities booked on Inkpath will always remain on your profile for future reference rather than your HEAR transcript.

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Reflect on Non-Mandatory Activities in Preparation for your APR

• Log into your Inkpath app or desktop account
• Navigate to your profile page and the 'complete' column
• Open the activity you want to reflect on
• Open the 'Notes' tab and complete the following questions:
  • What inspired you to choose this course and what did you hope to gain from this learning event?
  • How does your learning align with your TNA and what new skills did you achieve from attending the course?
  • How might these skills be helpful in your current practice/future career?
• When you need a full list of all activities you have completed you can pull off an excel or pdf report, anything in the notes section will show on it. If you add any docs to the 'attach a file' section, they will not appear on the report. Download those separately.
• Upload your report and extra docs to your MyCampus APR record in time for your annual review
• Self-reflections are only required for non-mandatory activities

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Add Your PGR Transcript to Inkpath 

• For current researchers, not new researchers, ask the Graduate School to download your current skills and training transcript from the PGR system
• You can then upload it to your Inkpath profile.
• Login to Inkpath > homepage > find activities > self-study.
• In the self-study section you'll see 'PGR Skills and Training Transcript'. You can add your transcript there.

If you have any questions, reach out to the Graduate School.

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Trouble Logging in?

• Error message: 'Sorry, but we're having trouble with signing you in'.
• It is recommended that anyone encountering this issue uses an in-private browsing session to set up an account as you will be required to add-in your password during the sign up.
• If you are still unable to log in after trying the above, you will need to raise a helpdesk request. This can be found on your MyGlasgow Student page. Direct it to IT not the MVLS Graduate School.

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How To Download Your Attended Courses On Inkpath For Your Annual Review

• Log in to your Inkpath app or desktop account.
• Click 'Export Activity'.
• Choose the appropriate date range.
• Click on 'Export xls' or 'Export pdf' - note that the pdf version will not show any self-reflection notes.
• Save your doc.
• Upload your doc in the PGR system for your initial/annual review.

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Can't See The Course You Want To Book In Inkpath?

• All MVLS organised activities will be opened on Inkpath one semester at a time approx one month beforehand.
• Semester one open in September.
• Semester two open in December.
• Semester three open in March.
• Activities organised by the MVLS Graduate School an be found below called MVLS Activities A-Z.

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Missed Some Mandatory Courses and Can't Do Them Until the Next Academic Term?

• Year 1 is necessarily ‘front end loaded’ with training in aspects you are expected to put into practise as your project matures. You may have relatively more time when you first start your project compared to later years – so it gets a little easier as you progress with a reduction in training required, as shown in years 2 and 3.
• However, there will inevitably and acceptably be some carry over between years owing to timetabling issues.
• Most mandatory courses are run more than once, add your name to the next mutually available time if booking has opened.
• Do not worry about impact on your eligibility to continue study or graduate if some courses are missed. We are looking to develop you as a researcher; the transcript you come out with at the end is bespoke evidence of the personal continuing professional development training that you have engaged upon for future employers or grant awarding bodies to review.

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Your HEAR Transcript

• Not all activities on Inkpath will show up on your MyCampus HEAR transcript when you graduate.
• Activities run by the Grad School, and booked on Inkpath, will not show up on MyCampus, only on Inkpath. Always remember to mark your attendance after each activity.
• Activities run by the Researcher Development Team should show up on your MyCampus record. Contact this team if their courses are not showing - researcher-development@glasgow.ac.uk 
• It's important to keep track of your own skills and training an activities.
• If you don't finish your research period and withdraw early you will still have access to your transcript listing your skills and training to date in Inkpath for life.

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When Do Activities Open For Booking?

• All activities below will open for booking one semester at a time.
• Activities for semester one open in September, semester two activities open in Dec and semester three activities open in March.
• Feel free to take more activities that are not mandatory or are external to the university.

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CDT and Doctoral Training Programme Students

If you are on a CDT/DTP type programme and have a bespoke training programme, you are also required to follow the activities on the Graduate Skills Training programme below, the same as any other pgr student.

Activities in bold are mandatory and must be booked via Inkpath and added to your Inkpath profile.

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Mandatory Activities - MVLS vs Researcher Development Team

You may notice that there is a difference between the listed mandatory activities the grad school recommends you do compared to what the Researcher Development team recommend.

Our mandatory activities containg the Reserasercher Devlopment team activities as the basic minimum that must be completed, plus we in MVLS want to make sure you have a broad range of skills under your belt. Some of which are more specific to what we require you to complete. 

If you have taken similar courses to things like Powerpoint Essentials or Intro to Endnote, then let us know. It's ok to upload similar activities to your Inpath profile that we run. If in doubt contact us.

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