Streamline decisions by automating the work.
Using a manual system of emails, PDFs, and spreadsheets to collect, route, approve and track applications, forms, and other documents is tedious and time-consuming for all involved. And unnecessary.
InfoReady is a cloud platform your administrators configure to manage the collecting, routing, review, approval and tracking of forms, applications, and documents in a single, complete system without IT support.
An investment in InfoReady can quickly pay for itself in the hours of staff time saved.
One Tool. Many Uses.
InfoReady can be used to automate a wide range of processes, workflows and approvals for graduate schools and across campus.
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- Capstone Projects
- Dissertation Committee Formation
- Fellowship Selections
- Grad Assistant Additional Compensation Request
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- Grad Assistant Application
- Grad Assistant Evaluation
- Graduate Certificate Application
- Nominations
- Publication Grants
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- Recognition Awards
- Research Awards
- Research Grants
- Research Plan Submission
- Travel Grants & Approvals
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To learn how InfoReady can help your institution, contact us at sales@inforeadycorp.com or click the link below.
College of Liberal Arts at UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
“Before InfoReady, we were having to manage Google Spreadsheets and Google Forms (for our competitions) and really pulling from one source to drop into another source Now with InfoReady, we're really focused on moving competitions into one system, one platform, and it’s working really well and saving us time. We're really thankful we have the InfoReady system in our hands now."
At the University of Minnesota’s College of Liberal Arts, Jennifer Coffman, Executive Office Research Development Specialist in the Office of Research and Graduate Programs manages grad student funding, program coordination, faculty research, and interfacing with graduate program coordinators for funding, fellowships, awards, and other competitions.
“In our graduate student awards, we were using a lot of Google forms and Google Sheets just to manage smaller one-time funding opportunities. Now with InfoReady, what we do for small amount summer fellowships can be copied into other application processes and be used year after year.”
“Since InfoReady has grown pretty much by word of mouth at the University, we weren’t surprised when the Center for Writing reached out to us. They were struggling with receiving around 60 applications for Dissertation Writing Retreat awards and wanted a better way to streamline the reviewer process. With InfoReady installed, the application and review process is automated, as is sending notifications once the application has been accepted. What they especially appreciate is the much faster turnaround time and not being concerned about missed, unopened, or direct-to-spam emails that frustrate communications and jeopardize applications.”
Arts and Humanities at UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
The bottom line is that InfoReady positively impacts everyone.
As early adopter of InfoReady in many of their science and health units, the University of Iowa has transitioned many internal funding programs away from manual processes to InfoReady’s automated system, including the prestigious Arts and Humanities Initiative (AHI) program. The AHI program supports humanities scholarship and work in the creative, visual, and performing arts.
“Having pieces of the process in multiple places allowed more room for error. Often comments and scores were handwritten instead of typed and could be difficult to decipher. The whole process was time-consuming and environmentally harsh with way too much paper exchanging hands.”
Now with InfoReady, staff access the application materials in one location and easily downloaded. "We can view draft applications and activity. The reviewer comments and scores are all in one place for us to view. We have the ability to copy previous competitions for new cycles, so we don't have to create new competitions from scratch. We can just copy them over and reuse some of that information. The application form is brief and simple to use and uploading documentation is easy with a variety of formats allowed. For the reviewer, application materials, guidelines, reviewer information and the score and comments section are in one place.”
"The common theme here is that materials and most processes are centrally located, which facilitates the entire process. InfoReady makes our work lives just a little bit easier."
To learn how InfoReady can help your institution, contact us at sales@inforeadycorp.com or click the link below.