Supervision reporting (CamCORS and PFRS)

CamCORS

The Cambridge Colleges' Online Reporting System for Supervisions (CamCORS) provides an online environment where supervisors can submit termly reports on their undergraduate supervisees. Once submitted, it also enables students to read their own supervision reports.

Postgraduate Feedback and Reporting System (PFRS)

The Postgraduate Feedback and Reporting System (formerly the Cambridge Graduate Supervision Reporting System, or CGSRS) is the online supervision reporting system accessed via CamSIS and used by the supervisors of postgraduate students, Faculties and Departments, Degree Committees, Colleges, and Student Registry. All postgraduate supervisors report termly on their students’ progress and, as with CamCORS, once submitted the reports are available for the student to read.   Reports are also read by the Course Director, Degree Committee, College and Student Registry, who all take an interest in the student’s progress.  Supervisors are encouraged to give an honest appraisal of the student’s progress, but to do so in a manner that can be used positively to provide useful feedback.

Students on most postgraduate programmes (Doctoral, MPhil, MRes, MSc, MLitt, MMus and CPGS) are also asked to submit a self-evaluation report each Michaelmas term.  Supervisors and Graduate Tutors will be notified when a student has submitted their report.  The termly supervisor report for Michaelmas term will in part be in response to the self-evaluation report.  If the student has indicated that he or she is experiencing difficulties or is in need of support, it might be appropriate to arrange a meeting with the student to discuss these. 

For other terms, and when students do not submit self-evaluation reports, supervisors submit reports through PFRS.