All Student Funding courses

This 60 minute, instructor-led session will show you the assessment section of the Funding Management Portal, how to share the shortlisted applications with the assessors, how to view the assessors input for each applicant on the shortlist. The session will also give you an opportunity to ask questions relating to specific funds and offer further 1-2-1 support.

The Funding Management Portal has been created as part of the Postgraduate Funding Project. You can visit the following website to find out more: click here.

Are you responsible for managing your Postgraduate Funds?

This 1 hour, instructor-led session is Part 1 of 3 modules of learning how to use and get the most out of using the Funding Management Portal (FMP) to publicise and manage your funds. This first module – ‘Adding and Editing Funds’ enables you to:

• advertise your funds on the Funding Search to prospective Applicants,

• incorporate your fund, as part of Course Application process (GAP), appearing in the Funding section of GAP and

• set up the FMP if you wish to continue using to find and shortlist eligible application, meeting your fund criteria.

You will be shown how to enter and/or update your funds in a way that helps improves the applicant experience and ensure you receive potential applicants, that meet your fund criteria and captured the information you request from them. All existing funds have now been ‘rolled over’ in the FMP for you to update and add new funds for the 2025-26 advertising and application cycle. If you wish for your fund to appear in GAP you must submit your fund in the FMP by 22 August 2025, in time for when GAP opens for the new admissions cycle on 3 September.

Training delivery will predominantly be delivered online via MS Teams, with one session being a physical face to face session. Your presenter will tailor this training to the attending audience to give the best experience, and our team will be available to support you in using the FMP throughout the academic year.

Supplementing these training sessions, will be a series of Drop-in Sessions, where you can ask specific questions on how best to set up your fund. There is no need to book on these – to find information how to attend these, view the FMP Training Sharepoint page.

This 45 minute, instructor-led session will walk through the different pages you need to complete in the Funding Management Portal to publish your fund for the coming year.

The Funding Management Portal has been created as part of the Postgraduate Funding Project. You can visit the following website to find out more: click here.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SESSION WILL BE HELD IN PERSON, WITH HYBRID AVAILABLE IF YOU CANNOT ATTEND ON SITE.

This 1 hour, instructor-led session will walk you through the different tools available in the Funding Management Portal applications section to be able to find eligible applicants, add them to your Master Consideration List (MCList), filter, review applicant details (including their financial liability), flag and allocate a consideration status. You will also be shown how to create a shortlist of applicants to have it prepared for further evaluation such as an assessment.

The purpose of this is to find the eligible applicants you are looking for with all the relevant information in one place, and support your processes in order to make funding offers.

This training is appropriate not only for colleagues new to the FMP, but also for returning users as we have made some updates to the system since the previous year.

Your presenter will tailor this training to the attending audience to give the best experience, and our team will be available to support you in using the FMP throughout the academic year. We will also publish dates and times of ‘drop-in’ sessions for further support, which will not require a booking.

This 60 minute, instructor-led session will show you the applications section of the Funding Management Portal, how you can see admissions applications of applicants that are eligible for your fund, how to add them to your Master Consideration List, how to make shortlists and other associated functionality, including sharing shortlists with an assessor.

The Funding Management Portal has been created as part of the Postgraduate Funding Project. You can visit the following website to find out more: click here.

This 60 minute, instructor-led session will show you the applications section of the Funding Management Portal, how you can see admissions applications of applicants that are eligible for your fund, how to add them to your Master Consideration List, how to make shortlists and other associated functionality, including sharing shortlists with an assessor.

The Funding Management Portal has been created as part of the Postgraduate Funding Project. You can visit the following website to find out more: click here.

This 45 minute session is designed for return users of the Funding Management Portal (FMP) that would like a quick refresher on how to use the FMP to add and edit their funds to be advertised on the Postgraduate Funding Search during the academic year 2022/23.

The Funding Management Portal has been created as part of the Postgraduate Funding Project. You can visit the following website to find out more about the fantastic work that is being done as part of this: click here.

The Postgraduate Funding Project is working towards a big release in the Funding Management Portal in June 2023 and this roadshow will give colleagues an overview of the changes and benefits they can expect following the release. The roadshow will include contributions by the project’s sponsors, Prof Bhaskar Vira, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education, and Mike Nicholson, Deputy Head of Education Services, situating the project’s work in the context of the University’s wider strategic aims and highlighting the positive impact it will have for both applicants and staff who engage with the system.

The June release will allow colleagues to use the Funding Management Portal to:

• Configure and collect funding applications through the Applicant Portal (GAP)
• Find eligible applicants for their funds
• Shortlist and share applications
• Assess applications for funding
• Update other funders in real time

The Funding Management Portal will also bring together all the information required for making informed decisions, such as real-time information about admissions statuses, other funders’ activities and applicants’ TOAST scores.

Find out more about the Postgraduate Funding Project: https://universityofcambridgecloud.sharepoint.com/sites/PostgraduateAdmissionsandFunding/SitePages/PG-Funding-Project.aspx

This roadshow will introduce you to the new Funding Management Portal and Funding Search, which will be going live on 8 July and 1 September, respectively. The Funding Management Portal is a new administrative interface that will allow funders across the Collegiate University to add information about their funds and (from 2022) managing the whole allocations and awards process for their funding. We will also present the new Funding Search (replacing the current system); this will give applicants a smoother and more tailored experience of searching for funding. Join us as we walk you through the new system, highlighting the benefits for you and how – together – we can improve the applicant experience in this area. You will have the opportunity to ask questions and give us your suggestions and feedback as future users of the system.

Find out more about the Postgraduate Funding Project: https://universityofcambridgecloud.sharepoint.com/sites/PGProjects.

This instructor-led session will introduce you to the new Cambridge University Funding Management Portal and teach you to add and edit your funds so that they can be published on the new Funding Search.

You will be given a demo of the new system, followed by an instructor-supported opportunity to enter a fund for yourself on a training test site. The objective of this introductory session is to give fund administrators training on the new system so that they can add and update their own funds over the summer, before the new Funding Search is published for applicants in September.

You must have the following items installed or available on your computer to participate.

1. The Teams desktop app installed on your computer.

2. You will also need a working webcam, speakers (or headset) and mic.

Note: You need to be connected to the Cambridge University network to access the training test site or the actual Funding Management Portal. If you are working in the office and connected directly to the Cambridge University, you should be able to automatically connect. If you are working from a remote location (including from home), you will need to connect via the UIS VPN service. For details on how to do this please visit their information website: https://help.uis.cam.ac.uk/service/network-services/remote-access/uis-vpn.

This new system has been built as part of the Postgraduate Funding Project. You can visit the following website to find out more about the fantastic work that is being done as part of this: https://universityofcambridgecloud.sharepoint.com/sites/PGProjects.

This year the training sessions are being run in School pairings for the Postgraduate Funding Competition. The session for Assessors will focus on the scoring matrix and the session for Administrators will focus on TOAST. This session is for the Schools of Arts and Humanities and Humanities and Social Sciences.

All sessions will have a similar format so you may join a different School's session if the timing is more convenient. Administrators may also join the Assessors' session and vice versa if it would be useful.

All sessions will be recorded and available to view on the PG funding moodle site afterwards.

Click below for the link. A calendar invite will also be shared with participants.

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YjVjMjM2MDEtNjQ5OC00Y2QyLThkNWUtYzYxZTY3NjZmZjRi%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%222d30671a-5103-4ef8-94d0-409f437a20e2%22%7d

This year the training sessions are being run in School pairings for the Postgraduate Funding Competition. The session for Assessors will focus on the scoring matrix and the session for Administrators will focus on TOAST. This session is for the Schools of Arts and Humanities and Humanities and Social Sciences.

All sessions will have a similar format so you may join a different School's session if the timing is more convenient. Administrators may also join the Assessors' session and vice versa if it would be useful.

All sessions will be recorded and available to view on the PG funding moodle site afterwards.

Click below for the link. A calendar invite will also be shared with participants.

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZDg2ZTVhYjUtNTMyNC00MTJlLThlMzEtN2M5Zjg0MmVmODJh%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%222d30671a-5103-4ef8-94d0-409f437a20e2%22%7d

This year the training sessions are being run in School pairings for the Postgraduate Funding Competition. The session for Assessors will focus on the scoring matrix and the session for Administrators will focus on TOAST. This session is for the Schools of Clinical Medicine and the Biological Sciences.

All sessions will have a similar format so you may join a different School's session if the timing is more convenient. Administrators may also join the Assessors' session and vice versa if it would be useful.

All sessions will be recorded and available to view on the PG funding moodle site afterwards.

Click below for the link. A calendar invite will also be shared with participants.

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YzY4MTQ5ZWQtZDhjYy00N2MwLThiY2UtYjYzNjZjYjYzNGIw%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%222d30671a-5103-4ef8-94d0-409f437a20e2%22%7d

This year the training sessions are being run in School pairings for the Postgraduate Funding Competition. The session for Assessors will focus on the scoring matrix and the session for Administrators will focus on TOAST. This session is for the Schools of Clinical Medicine and the Biological Sciences.

All sessions will have a similar format so you may join a different School's session if the timing is more convenient. Administrators may also join the Assessors' session and vice versa if it would be useful.

All sessions will be recorded and available to view on the PG funding moodle site afterwards.

Click below for the link. A calendar invite will also be shared with participants.

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZDgxNDQ5ZTMtOTIzZS00NWY2LTlkNmEtMWUxNmRlMGIyMjky%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%222d30671a-5103-4ef8-94d0-409f437a20e2%22%7d

This year the training sessions are being run in School pairings for the Postgraduate Funding Competition. The session for Assessors will focus on the scoring matrix and the session for Administrators will focus on TOAST. This session is for the Schools of the Physical Sciences and Technology.

All sessions will have a similar format so you may join a different School's session if the timing is more convenient. Administrators may also join the Assessors' session and vice versa if it would be useful.

All sessions will be recorded and available to view on the PG funding moodle site afterwards.

Click below for the link. A calendar invite will also be shared with participants.

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_N2VkMGExZDQtMGI1MS00ZmZiLTkzODMtNjUzNmYyNWFjMGRl%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%222d30671a-5103-4ef8-94d0-409f437a20e2%22%7d

This year the training sessions are being run in School pairings for the Postgraduate Funding Competition. The session for Assessors will focus on the scoring matrix and the session for Administrators will focus on TOAST. This session is for the Schools of the Physical Sciences and Technology.

All sessions will have a similar format so you may join a different School's session if the timing is more convenient. Administrators may also join the Assessors' session and vice versa if it would be useful.

All sessions will be recorded and available to view on the PG funding moodle site afterwards.

Click below for the link. A calendar invite will also be shared with participants.

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NzQ2N2FjMmMtMjk0ZC00MjNlLTg3ZWEtZmRlZWYzM2I5NWM4%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2249a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%222d30671a-5103-4ef8-94d0-409f437a20e2%22%7d