Navigation and Customization

Home Screen

Name of the current user
Name of the OnCore environment in which you are currently working
Home button: will return user to Home Screen (use this instead of browser back button)
Menu: contains links to each console associated with user's Access Role privileges
Favorites Bar: allows users to select items for quick access by starring most frequently used menu items; only starred items will appear in your Favorite's Bar
Announcements: contains important information such as upcoming outages and policy changes, the OnCore Support Team (OST) Help Desk information, and may helpful links
Gear icon: opens Home Screen configuration options; allows user to customize Home Screen view (See Customization below)
User Profile (click arrow by name to open): allows user to update their title and contact numbers
Show PHI: when checked, full subject details will display; when unchecked, PHI will be redacted from your view
Help: provides a drop-down list of online help resources: the vendor-created Learning Portal, the WashU OnCore User Manual, and the WashU OnCore Support Website.
Logout: remember to always log out at the end of a session in order to protect PHI

Menus, Consoles, Customization, and Access Roles

OnCore is organized in to menus. Each menu contains a grouping of consoles or pages that pertain to that subject matter (Protocols, Subjects, etc.). Consoles and pages within OnCore are designed to work together and communicate from one to the other.

A console is a set of related pages for a particular workflow, function, and type of data. To customize your Favorites Bar on your home page, navigate to the Menu and star any menus, consoles, or pages you wish to appear on your home screen. Favorited items can then be arranged on the Favorite's bar using drag and drop.

Access roles determine the protocols, subjects, and data each user can view and/or edit. Access roles also determine which menus and consoles the user can access and which tasks they can complete. Some users may have multiple access roles assigned, depending on their job roles. Access roles are stacked, meaning the user's access is a combination of all privileges for all assigned access roles; you do not need to switch between access roles in order to complete different tasks.

Menus

Admin: for use by OnCore administrators
Audits/Monitoring: enables organizations to define internal audits, enter and track audit information, and provide audit summary information
eCRFs/Calendars: enables role-specific users to view an entire protocol calendar with all arms, SOC vs research-related procedures, biostat console, data manager console, CRF form creation, and/or calendar creation
ePRMS: for use by staff submitting to PRMC, faculty and staff who review for PRMC, and the PRMC coordinators to process submissions
Financials: for use by financial staff for budgeting, invoicing, and coverage analysis
My Console: designed specifically to assist subject staff in managing subject visits across all of the staff’s protocols; provides a means to view and verify visits without having to access each subject individually from the CRA Console and Subject Console
Protocols: this is the central repository for Protocol level details
Registries: data management, patient form set up, registries management, and registries reporting
Reports: OnCore provides a library of standard reports; many reports can be customized to meet your organization's needs
- For more information about custom reports, please contact the OnCore Support Team at the information listed below
Reviews: includes Committee Appointees, DSMC Console, Agenda Management, and Team Console menu items
Subjects: contains information about subjects and provides tools to view demographic information, document consent, and view/track subject calendar visits

Consoles

Biostat Console (eCRF/calendar menu): used to extract data from OnCore for use in statistical analysis tools; view current progress of protocols related to accruals, forms, and adverse events
DM Console (eCRF/calendar menu): validation and management workspace for online forms
Coordinator Console (ePRMS menu): the ePRMS paperless committee management system allows many repetitious tasks are automated
Reviewer Console (ePRMS menu): PRMC reviewers may access and respond reviews directly within OnCore
Submissions Console (ePRMS): for studies requiring PRMC, submission is handles directly within OnCore
Coverage Analysis Console (Financials menu): provides access to perform a variety of coverage analysis tasks for a specific protocol.
Financial Console (Financials menu): allows financials coordinators access to pages for budgeting, invoicing, and many other financial workflows
My Console (My Console menu): designed specifically to assist subject staff in managing subject visits across all of the staff’s protocols, providing a means to view and verify visits (see more info below)
PC Console (Protocols menu): creation and management of protocols within OnCore; this is your starting point of the protocol lifecycle in OnCore and the backbone of the protocol information
PI Console (Protocols menu): allows users to view statuses and general information regarding open protocols associated with the user
QASMC Console (Reviews menu): consolidates and displays data captured throughout the OnCore application; may be used for additional purposes, including DSM reporting to QASMC
Team Console (Reviews menu): progress reporting and protocol managing tool used by an entire management team
CRA Console (Subjects menu): allows access to subject registrations, demographics, consent information, and details regarding individual subject visits; provides an overview for all subjects on a protocol
Subject Console (Subjects menu): provides access to a subject’s demographic information, the protocols they are associated with, consents they have signed, eligibility status, and much more subject-related information

Customization

Home Screen Customization

Customize the view of your Home Screen, visible at log in

From the Home Screen, click the gear icon located below your User Name
In the Home Screen Configuration Box, check the Add box for any Widget you would like to add to your Home screen view
Click Save
Click the Home button to view your Widgets on your home screen
To customize each Widget, click the gear icon in a specific Widget (e.g., Protocols); choose different views and customization options within each Widget, based on what you would like to see at each log in
1. Click on the gear symbol in the top right-hand corner of the widget
2. A new window will pop-up so you can choose the settings.
  1. Watch Tab
    1. You will want to Change the 'No' boxes to 'Yes' and check the boxes in the 'Role' section that you would like included. Once you do that, you will want to click on the 'Please select a role' hyperlink in the same box.
    2. In the box that pops up, you will choose all the roles that you have been assigned in any of your protocols, then click on 'Save'.
    3. Now you will see the roles you selected in the Display Assigned Role Section, if you missed one you can always click on 'Edit Role(s)' to add or remove roles. If correct you will now click on 'Close' and your widget should now have all your assigned protocols in your home page widget.
  2. Fields Tab
    1. The Fields tab is used to specify which fields of selected data to display in the widget.
    2. Select the checkboxes to specify which fields to show. Enter a value into a Maximum item display field to limit how many items are listed in the widget. (The number of items that appear in the Dashboard report affects Home page performance.) If there are more items than what is listed in this maximum field, they do not appear in the widget.
      There are two columns of checkboxes:
      1. The Dashboard column refers to the widget as shown on the Home page.
      2. The Expanded column refers to a window that is launched by clicking the widget’s expand icon.
    3. Save your choices by clicking Save.
  3. Bookmarks tabs
    1. The Protocols, Subjects, and SAEs widgets can show bookmarked protocols and subjects.
    2. The Bookmarks [Protocol] tab displays all the protocols you have bookmarked.
    3. The Bookmarks [Subject] tab displays all the subjects you have bookmarked.
    4. Bookmarks tabs can be used to remove bookmarks from protocols or subjects.