PGR Manager Advice

PGR Manager is a bespoke system for managing your PGR student journey – bringing all information into one safe, secure and easily accessible system, streamlining administration processes, and simplifying progression monitoring and reporting (to name but a few). You can find further information below.

Logging in to PGR Manager system

For PGR Manager, sign in using ‘Student sign in’ (on the left-hand side of the screen on desktop or at the top of the screen on mobile). Your student sign-in has a different password to your staff sign-in. Here are some instructions about how to manage this.
When you use PGR Manager we advise you to sign-in using an incognito browser, so you do not have to sign out of your Staff account and into your Student account.
Continue to use ‘Staff log in’ for all other systems until further notice.
Next steps IT will be creating new processes for you to sign into OU systems; please watch out for further comms.
Members of staff will follow the same process as they normally do before the change, which is to login via the staff login route.
External Staff, External Supervisors and ARC Students do not go through the OU authentication sign on, therefore they will be unaffected by the change but will not be able to login to the system on 22 September as the system will be unavailable.
If you have any technical problems with this change, please contact the Service Desk via AskIT or call on 01908 654321.

We would love to hear your feedback about the system – simply email us at PGRManager@open.ac.uk.

Training resources

We have recorded training videos to help with routine PGR Manager tasks. These are hosted on the Research Skills website; contact Graduate-School@open.ac.uk if you have trouble accessing them.