Start here: go to
pathonline.net and sign in with Google, or with your email and a password.
First time with email: choose
Sign in, enter the address you were invited with, then
Forgot password? — you get a code by email and set your password (the one from the old site is fine). If it finds no account, choose
No account? Create one instead. No app to install.
🧑🏫 Mentors / Supervisors
Sign in
- Open pathonline.net → Sign in with Google, or with the invited email and your password. You land on the Gantt.
- Wrong address? Sign out and sign in with the invited one.
See your work
- The 📅 Gantt shows the tasks you lead or supervise, on a timeline.
- Click a task to edit its details, dates and team.
Answer applications to your topics
- Open 📥 Applications — applications to topics you supervise.
- Click one → read the motivation → reply in the private thread.
- Set the outcome: shortlisted / accepted / declined (the applicant is emailed).
Suggest a topic
- Click 💡 Suggest a topic → fill title, level, description → Submit.
- An administrator reviews it; you're emailed when it's accepted or declined.
🎓 Students
Register / sign in
- On Open topics, Register your interest (name + email + consent), or
- Sign in at pathonline.net (Google, or No account? Create one with your email) and open My applications — you are enrolled as an applicant automatically.
Find & apply for a topic
- Open 🎓 Browse open topics — filter by level / programme.
- Open a topic → Apply → → write a short motivation → Submit.
- This opens a private thread with the supervisor.
Track your applications
- 📄 My applications shows status + messages. Reply in the thread; withdraw any time.
Suggest your own topic
- Click 💡 Suggest a topic → title, level, description → Submit for review.
💬 Following a topic once you are in
- Every task has a comment thread — that is where questions, progress notes and status changes live.
- 💬 Comments in the top bar collects every thread you can see in one list, newest first, with New shown by default and a count on the tab.
- Reply there, or open the task in the Gantt. Your own comments never count as new.
- Every task also has a 📁 folder on its Gantt bar: files, and notes under them. A faint, dashed folder is empty: click it to add files. You can delete the files you uploaded.
Good to know. A topic is open only while marked SEEKING. Every open topic shows an Apply by date — two weeks before the topic starts — as a coloured badge, soonest first. BSc and MSc topics can usually be rescoped to suit either level: if one interests you but is listed for the other, register your interest anyway and say which level you want. No account yet? Creating one also registers your interest in joining — you can suggest a topic straight away, and an administrator can then accept you as a student for full access. All messages between you and a supervisor stay private to that thread. Trouble signing in? Choose Forgot password? on the sign-in page (check Junk for the code), or ask an administrator to invite your address.