Inspire is Australia’s first online HDR candidature management system to enable the ‘digital doctorate’. Students – and their supervisors – can track the progress of their candidature, request changes to their candidature and submit their thesis for online examination. In addition, students can track the research training skills they have attained against the Vitae researcher development framework, set goals and plan for career outcomes.
Flinders researchers can use Inspire to complete HDR supervisor training and track their development against their compliance to be HDR supervisors.
In 2020 Inspire will deliver online examinations and a new Register of HDR Supervisors that will assist the Office of Graduate Research to facilitate supervisory teams for students and demonstrate compliance against national requirements.
For the first time in any Australian University, it is possible for HDR students to manage all aspects of their candidature using just the one system, Inspire, accessible at any time, from anywhere in the world.
Note: Inspire is best used with Chrome or Firefox browsers. Internet Explorer or other browsers may not work correctly.
Inspire will enable students to:
Staff will benefit by:
Students are able to apply for the following variations to their candidature in Inspire:
All applications are subject to review and approval and are managed by an online workflow.
Students and supervisors can use Inspire to track and complete all the following milestones:
All students can view their milestone due dates on the timeline and access the forms for milestone submission.
Students, supervisors and external examiners can use Inspire for some HDR examination processes:
The streamlining of these processes is expected to improve turnaround times for HDR examinations.
Skills development gives HDR students the ability to analyse and record their skills for the Research and Employability Skills Training (REST) program using the popular Vitae RDF.
Students can:
Students can use Inspire to plan their career and set goals:
There are several benefits:
The Higher Degrees by Research (HDR) Supervisor Development Program is compulsory for academic staff members wishing to supervise HDR students. HDR Supervisors can use Inspire to see a full history of completed development activities and their current compliance points:
There are several benefits:
The OKTA dashboard will not have an Inspire app link. You can add your own link if you wish by following these steps:
This link will direct to you to the Inspire home page at https://inspire.flinders.edu.au.
This will then sign you in automatically using single sign on.
There is a known problem in the Inspire system with accessing the Inspire menu bar during or just after trying to printing a form. Printing a form in Inspire pops up a new browser window where you can specify how you want the print to proceed. If you navigate back to the normal Inspire menu before closing this pop up window, the Inspire dropdown options are blocked from displaying (ie nothing happens). To correct this, go back to your printing pop up window, close it, and navigate back to your normal Inspire window. The menu dropdown options will now appear as per normal.
This problem is expected to be resolved in a future release of Inspire.
This could be due to using an unsupported browser. If you are using Internet Explorer, please switch to Chrome, Safari or Firefox. Every effort has been to ensure the stability of Inspire on Internet Explorer, however the product is no longer supported by Microsoft.
While using Internet Explorer, you may notice that some functions of Inspire are not available or generate errors. For example, when trying to upload a document to a form in Inspire, you may see the below error:
If you have tried another browser and the error persists, please raise a support ticket to IDS.
For face-to-face help with any aspects of Inspire you can make an appointment to see an Office of Graduate Research team member on the REST FLO site. Topics covered include:
For questions relating to your candidature or use of Inspire please contact Office of Graduate Research via email or phone.
For technical issues and support relating to Inspire please submit a request and an IDS Service Desk representative will be in touch to resolve your request.
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