07/05/2025HEI Staff & PEFs - New Nursing PAR Document Milestone Completion report
The new Nursing Milestone Completion Report is a handy new report to show how your nursing students are progressing in terms of meeting their major placement milestones.
In addition to monitoring the document completion for students currently on placement, the report can also be used to audit placement milestone completion and to identify trends in completion performance.
The report is available on request to the PARE team, via a Help Centre support ticket. If you are HEI staff, then please specify the cohort and placement dates for the report in the ticket. For full guidance on the new report, see the following articles in the Help Centre:
As we head into the Easter Bank Holiday, we'd like to take a moment to thank all of our users – students, academic staff, administrators, and healthcare partners - for your continued support and collaboration.
From all of us at OnlinePARE, we wish you a restful and refreshing Easter break. May your long weekend be filled with peace, joy, and maybe a little chocolate too!
31/03/2025Update on Access to Learner Assessment Documentation
As part of a scheduled review of educator access to learner assessment documentation, temporary adjustments were made to ensure alignment with our evolving governance and oversight framework.
Now that the review has concluded, we're pleased to confirm that standard access for Placement Educators within their designated practice areas has been restored. This update reflects feedback from our partners across healthcare and education, and supports our ongoing commitment to clarity, collaboration, and learner support.
Thank you for your patience during this period of evaluation. If you experience any further issues, please contact the OnlinePARE Support Team by raising a support ticket via the Help Centre.
Kind regards, The OnlinePARE Team
22/01/2025Community Nursing SPQ Programmes on PARE - Discipline Name Updates
The community nursing disciplines on PARE for the NMC Specialist Practitioner Qualification programmes have now all been brought under the SPQ naming convention for easier identification:
SPQ - School Nursing
SPQ - District Nursing
SPQ - Health Visiting
SPQ - Community Learning Disabilities Nursing
SPQ - Community Children's Nursing
SPQ - General Practice Nursing.
If you support student practice assessments for one or more SPQ programmes, you will be able to continue to access any learner documentation to which you previously had access prior to the discipline renaming.
16/01/2025HEI Staff - Enhancements to Users CSV Download Report
The Users CSV download report (Manage Users screen) now includes additional role information for HEI staff accounts.
You can use this report to view staff accounts that have the placement coordinator access switched on, and accounts with the PIVO coordinator, practice assessor, or the assign assessor/educator roles enabled.
23/12/2024Season's Greetings from OnlinePARE!
As the festive season approaches, we'd like to thank all of our users - students, academic staff, administrators and healthcare partners - for an incredible year. Your support and collaboration have made 2024 truly special.
From everyone at OnlinePARE, we wish you a Merry Christmas, a joyful holiday season, and all the best for 2025!
04/12/2024OnlinePARE Celebrates Triumph at THE Awards 2024
Dear OnlinePARE Community,
We are thrilled to share that Chester Business School, the home of OnlinePARE, has been awarded Business School of the Year at the prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) Awards 2024. The announcement was made at a glittering ceremony at the ICC in Birmingham on Thursday, November 28, as the THE Awards celebrated their 20th anniversary, hosted by comedian Miles Jupp.
Comedian Miles Jupp and representatives from Chester Business School and the University of Chester Students’ Union, including Dr. Mike Brownsell (fourth from the left), celebrate on stage as Chester Business School is awarded Times Higher Education Business School of the Year 2024.
This award is a recognition of the transformative work Chester Business School and OnlinePARE are doing to innovate and excel in higher education and healthcare practice. Our platform was proudly highlighted in the Business School’s winning submission, which showcased its role as one of the UK’s definitive clinical practice assessment tools. Over the past year, OnlinePARE engaged more than 90,000 university users and over 160,000 NHS and healthcare professionals – a record achievement that underlines the critical part it plays in supporting healthcare education and the NHS workforce.
Judges praised Chester Business School and OnlinePARE for “its focus on its net zero ambitions through collaboration on large-scale industrial decarbonisation challenges in the north-west” and recognised “its exceptional work with Health Education England, engaging the largest cohort of future healthcare professionals to realise efficiencies in the development of skills and practice development for the NHS”.
This milestone also coincides with OnlinePARE’s tenth anniversary, marking a decade of growth, innovation and service to our users. Our commitment to enhancing clinical practice assessment and fostering partnerships between universities and healthcare providers has never been stronger, and this award serves as a testament to the shared efforts of our entire community.
Reflecting on this achievement, Dr Mike Brownsell, Head of Division (PARE) at Chester Business School, said: “I'm delighted that PARE has played such a significant part in the Business School success. It reflects not only the skills and commitment of the PARE Team, but also the support and engagement of the wider PARE user community.”
As Dr Brownsell highlights, this recognition would not have been possible without the invaluable contributions of our users – students, academic staff, and healthcare partners alike. As we celebrate this achievement, we remain steadfast in our mission to provide innovative tools that advance practice assessment and multidisciplinary, educational collaboration.
We thank you all for your continued support and enthusiasm for OnlinePARE. Let us celebrate this success together as we look forward to many more achievements in the years to come.
Kind regards, The OnlinePARE Team
05/11/2024NEW FEATURE: Practice Assessment Documentation and Practice Educator Assignment by HEI Staff.
Following multiple requests, the ability for University placement coordinators to assign documentation directly to a practice educator for some programmes has now been extended to include Senior HEI Administrators and Academic Links.
Whilst designated university placement coordinator staff manage the student assignment process across the majority of programmes, some programmes rely more directly on the programme delivery team. In such cases, the academic staff and programme leads can now directly allocate the practice educator / Learner assignments prior to placement to ensure timely learner and practice educator access to documentation.
For further guidance please see the User Guide, which is available as a PDF download via the following Help Centre link:
21/10/2024Improved Practice Educator Assignment Screen
As part of PARE's ongoing commitment to accessibility, Practice Placement Senior Administrators and Practice Educator Leads may notice a slight change to the appearance of the page they use to assign clinical supervisors and assessors to learners.
The page now fully complies with WCAG 2.2 AA Standards and we have took the opportunity to add a search option, to allow for direct searching on an educators name rather than scrolling through the list of possible options.
We hope you like the improvement and welcome any feedback.
01/10/2024The National Education and Training Survey (NETS) is now open! (NHS England message)
This is a message on behalf of NHS England. Please note, this does not refer to (or replace) the questions completed regularly in PARE as part of the placement evaluation process.
Your Experiences Your Voice NETS 2024. Your platform NETS is the voice of the health workforce working and learning in health and care services across England. The survey takes just 10 minutes to complete, and your feedback is vital in ensuring that all learning environments are safe, inclusive and support healthcare professionals to work together to deliver the highest standards of care.
Please don’t miss this opportunity to tell us about your experience and influence your future by completing the NETS today:
We are delighted to announce that Chester Business School, the home of OnlinePARE, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) Business School of the Year 2024 award. This remarkable achievement is a testament to the innovative work and dedication that both Chester Business School and the OnlinePARE platform contribute to higher education.
The submission for this nomination highlighted the exceptional success of OnlinePARE, showcasing how our platform is transforming assessment in clinical practice across the UK. OnlinePARE has become an integral part of supporting healthcare and educational partnerships, streamlining the placement experience for both learners and academic staff. Our platform's innovative approach to fostering multidisciplinary collaboration and digital innovation have played a key role in positioning Chester Business School as a frontrunner for this award.
The winners of the THE Business School of the Year 2024 will be announced at the Awards event in Birmingham on 28th November 2024. Please join us in wishing Chester Business School the very best of luck!
We extend our heartfelt thanks to all staff, students and healthcare partners who have contributed to our journey this far. As OnlinePARE celebrates its tenth year of continued growth and success, we are incredibly proud that our platform's contribution to education has been recognised on this scale.
Kind regards,
The OnlinePARE Team
30/08/2024Resolved: Timesheet Display Error
We are pleased to inform you that the issue affecting some users' ability to access timesheets on our platform has now been resolved. The issue was owing to circumstances outside of our control, but we have worked closely with our providers to ensure a prompt resolution.
Thank you for your patience and understanding during this time. If you continue to experience any issues, please don't hesitate to reach out to our support team via the OnlinePARE Help Centre.
Kind regards, The OnlinePARE Team
07/08/2024HEI Administrators - New Feature: PAR Documents Management Screen
Dear HEI Administrators,
We are excited to announce the launch of a new tool designed
to enhance your administrative efficiency: the ‘PAR Documents’ screen. This
feature allows you to view listings of all active PAR Documents across your
programmes that use PARE assessment documents, from a single screen.
How to Access the ‘PAR
Documents’ Screen:
> For HEI
Senior Administrators: Access the ‘PAR Documents’ screen via the red-brown ‘Placement
Details’ tile on the PARE Dashboard.
> For HEI
Senior Administrators with ‘Placement Coordinator’ Permissions: Access the ‘PAR
Documents screen via the red-brown ‘Manage Places/Import Records’ tile on the
PARE Dashboard.
Once you click the relevant tile, simply select ‘PAR
Documents’ from the side-bar to view the list.
Key Features:
Staff will be able to easily access copies of each PAR
Document from this screen to review document layouts and content when preparing
revisions, as well as view additional information about each document’s usage
including the cohorts and number of learners that a document version has been
attached to.
We value your feedback and are committed to continuously improving
your experience with OnlinePARE. If you have any questions or need assistance,
please do not hesitate to raise a support ticket via the OnlinePARE Help
Centre.
Thank you for your continued support and co-operation.
Kind regards, The OnlinePARE Team
06/08/2024New Feature: Alternative MFA Email for Enhanced Security
Dear OnlinePARE users,
As part of our ongoing efforts to enhance security and in response to user feedback, we are pleased to introduce a new feature that allows users to provide a secondary email address for receiving MFA codes during sign-in.
How to Use the New Feature:
1. Sign In: Log into your account as usual.
2. Access Your Profile: Click on your name in the top-right corner of the screen to access your profile.
3. Add an Alternative MFA Email: On your profile page, you will see a new field labelled 'Alternative MFA Email.' Here, you can enter an alternative (e.g. personal) email address in this field.
4. Save Changes: Click on 'Save Changes' to update your profile with the new information.
When signing in from an unregistered device, users who have provided an alternative MFA email will be prompted to select which email address they would like their verification code sent to on that occasion.
For a visual guide, please see the animation below which illustrates the updated profile screen:
This feature provides added flexibility and ensures you have multiple options for receiving your MFA codes, making it easier to access your account securely.
We value your feedback and are committed to continuously improving your experience with OnlinePARE. If you have any questions or need assistance, please do not hesitate to raise a support ticket via the OnlinePARE Help Centre.
Thank you for your continued support and cooperation.
Kind regards,
The OnlinePARE Team
18/06/2024New Feature - HEI Staff Assignment of Practice Assessors
HEI placement coordinators now have access to assign Practice Assessors directly to learner placement allocations on PARE via a new assignment feature accessed from the learner account profile screens, placement allocation pop-up.
The new feature is particularly beneficial for placement circuits reliant on HEI staff to manage the practice staff assignments for the learner placement allocations in the absence of PARE team leaders and PEFs within the placement provider organisations, and for assignment of off-site and long-arm practice assessors to learner placement allocations (HEIs must ensure they have relevant data sharing agreements in place with placement providers).
HEI placement coordinators may also switch on the additional practice staff assignment role for standard HEI Senior Administrator accounts, and HEI staff with the practice assessor role enabled on their PARE account may also be assigned to learner placement allocations, in addition to practice staff, via the new feature.
For further guidance please see the User Guide, which is available as a PDF download via the following Help Centre link:
18/06/2024Tips for Users being asked to verify their identity repeatedly
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Dear PARE Users,
We have received a small number of queries from users who are being asked repeatedly to verify their identity through multi-factor authentication, despite having clicked the 'Remember this device' checkbox.
We have been advised that this issue is most likely owing to cookies being disabled on users' devices; to assist users in resolving this, we have assembled the following guidance to enable cookies on all major internet browsers. (Sources: Apple; Carleton University; Microsoft; National Academies.)
Please select your browser from the below options:
Click the context menu (⋮) in the browser toolbar to the right of the address bar.
Choose Settings.
Click Show Advanced Settings.
Click Content settings in the Privacy section.
Ensure that the bullet for Allow local data to be set (recommended) is checked.
Also ensure that Block third-party cookies and site data is unchecked.
Click the Menu button (⋯) in the top corner of your browser.
Choose Settings
Click Site permissions
Click Cookies and site data.
Turn on Allow sites to save and read cookie data (recommended) to unblock cookies.
Click Tools (⛭) in the browser toolbar.
Choose Internet Options
Click the Privacy tab.
Under Settings, move the slider towards the bottom to allow more or all cookies.
Click the Tools menu (═) from the top toolbar.
Choose Options.
Click the Privacy tab.
Under History, select Use custom settings for history from the drop-down menu beside “Firefox will.”
Ensure that the checkboxes for Accept cookies from sites and Accept third-party cookies are both checked.
Click OK.
Click the Safari menu from the top toolbar.
Choose either Preferences or Settings (depending on your edition).
Click the Privacy tab.
Click the “Never” checkbox for Block Cookies.
Users may need to liaise with their IT Department if browser settings are managed by the organisation. If the above guidance does not address the issue, we kindly ask that you consult with your IT Department prior to reaching out to us via a Support Ticket.
Kind regards, The OnlinePARE Team
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