Student Administrative System

The Biomedical Researchers in Training Experience (BRITE) program, sponsored by SMU and UT-Southwestern’s Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, allows undergraduate students to study and perform research at both schools.

Advisors/Faculty Requesting a Graduate Degree Progress Report through Access.SMU Self-Service

The eGDPR is an electronic Graduate Degree Progress Report (eGDPR) that can be requested by students or advisors/faculty using Access.SMU. The GDPR itself will not appear in Access.SMU. It will be e-mailed to the person requesting it at his/her campus e-mail account.

The following instructions explain how an advisor/faculty member may request a student’s GDPR through Self Service.

Processing an eGDPR

A. Faculty

After logging into Access.SMU, look for the Faculty Self-Service pagelet. Click on the Faculty Center link:

Click on the Advisement tab, then click on the New Drop-In Advisees button.

B. Advisor or Faculty

Navigate to the following page: Self Service, Advisement, New/Drop-In Advisees

Requesting the Report

Click on the Search button to select a student.

Search page

What to Do

Enter the SMU ID of the student for whom you are requesting the report.

Click on the Lookup button.

Select the student.

This brings you back to the New/Drop-In Advisees page, now displaying the student's name.

New/Drop-In Advisees page
Field Name	What to Do
Student Details	Click on the down arrow, and click on Degree Progress.

Click on the change button to go to the next page.

Complete the page using these instructions:

Degree Progress Report page
Field Name	What to Do
Academic Institution	Defaults to Southern Methodist University. Leave as is.
Report Type	Defaults to Graduate DPR.
Go	Click on Go to process the request.

For students who are in both a graduate and undergraduate program, the page will load so that you can select the report you want:

Complete the page using these instructions:

Degree Progress Report page
Field Name	What to Do
Academic Institution	Defaults to Southern Methodist University. Leave as is.
Report Type	Click on the report type that you want: Degree Progress Report for an undergraduate report or Graduate DPR for the graduate report.
Go	Click on Go to process the request.

After clicking on Go, you will see “Processing” blinking on the upper right side of the screen. When the processing is complete, you will see the following screen.

Note: If this screen does not appear, the Degree Progress Report has not been sent to your SMU email account. The process must be repeated to obtain an eDPR/eGDPR.

You cannot run a degree progress report for students who are not in an active status due to graduation, suspension, etct. You may still run an unofficial transcript. If you try to run a (graduate) degree progress report, you will receive the following message: