Electronic Signature Pages

Signature pages are now created and signed via Docusign, an online platform for signing and sharing documents.

Before You Begin

  • Check with Department: Check with the chair of your committee about any procedures or deadlines that have been set up within your department. Be sure to check with the college designee as well, especially if that person is not in your department, about what is expected of you to get the final signature.
  • Tell Committee to Expect Emails: Also, keep in mind that the emails that are generated through DocuSign look like any other email. Let your committee members know shortly before you create an electronic signature page PDF via the DocuSign web page, so they will be aware that this very important PDF will be emailed to them soon.
  • Ask Questions: Feel free to contact the Thesis and Dissertation Office with any questions or concerns. This is a new procedure for us and we want to know about anything that we can do to improve it. Your input will help students in the years to come.

Complete the Docusign Powerform

The link below accesses the DocuSign PowerForm Signer Information page, which has been set up specifically for graduate students to create a signature page PDF and send it to everyone who needs to sign it. Before you click on the link, you may want to gather information that you鈥檒l need to complete the form.

  1. First, fill in your name and official 好色先生 email address.
  2. Next, fill in the name and official 好色先生 email address for the chair of your committee plus two committee members. Most people will not have to fill in any boxes past 鈥淭hesis Committee Member 2.鈥

    If you have more members in your committee, there are extra boxes to include their names and email addresses.

    Always use the official 好色先生 email address for committee members. If a committee member does not have a 好色先生 email address, use another email address. The email they receive will have instructions on how to create an account in order to use an electronic signature through DocuSign.
     
  3. Finally, at the bottom of the page, there is a box to fill in the name and 好色先生 email address of the College Designee. If you do not know the name of the person who signs last on your signature page, check this list.

Once all the information is filled in, click on the 鈥淏egin Signing鈥 button to bring up the electronic signature page form.

PowerForm Signer Information

Access the (link will open in new tab) web page.

Create a Signature Page PDF

After you click on the 鈥淏egin Signing鈥 button, a new page will appear. The signature page PDF form is shaded out. Click in the 鈥淕ot it鈥 button on the right side of the screen to get started.

Got it button

Then, on the  left side of the screen, there is a gold arrow and a link to the 鈥淓lectronic Record and Signature Disclosure鈥 document. You can review the document before you click on the white box to the left of the statement 鈥淚 agree to use electronic records and signatures.鈥

Agree to use check box

Then click on the gold 鈥淐ontinue鈥 button and the signature page PDF will be unshaded and you can fill in the information. Notice the 鈥淥ther Actions鈥 box to the right of the gold 鈥淐ontinue鈥 button. You can click here to find the 鈥淔inish Later鈥 option. If you click on 鈥淔inish Later,鈥 an email is sent to you with a link to pull up the form and fill in more information.

This is the information to be added to the Signature page PDF:

  • Your Name鈥擸our name should be the name that is recognized by Enrollment Services
  • Your student ID
  • Your 好色先生 email address
  • Your telephone number
  • Check box to indicate Thesis, Dissertation, or Project Report
  • Title of your paper鈥擝e sure the title is acceptable to all committee members, or you may have to create a new signature page and send it out again
  • Your department
  • The last month of the semester when you submit your paper (pull-down menu)
  • The year when you submit your paper

Once you have filled in all the information, click the 鈥淔inish鈥 button to activate the emails.

Emails Go Out to Committee Members and then to Designee for Final Signature

Emails with the signature page PDF attached are sent to your committee chair and the committee members at the same time. The subject line will be: Please DocuSign: Thesis Approval Form. These signatures can be added to the signature page PDF in any order. That is, committee members can sign the document before the committee chair or the committee chair can sign before committee members.

After your committee chair and committee members have added their signatures, an email is sent to the college designee with the signature page PDF attached. Once the last signature is added to the signature page PDF, everyone receives an email confirming that the signature page is complete: the college designee, the thesis chair, the committee members, and the student. The subject line of the student鈥檚 email is: Signed: Please DocuSign Thesis Approval Form

Thesis Office Receives Completed Signature Page and Contacts You

Once all signatures have been added to the signature page PDF, it is emailed to the Thesis and Dissertation Office. We will email you within the next business day of receiving the email. The email will include information about uploading a PDF of your manuscript to the ProQuest website. Information about uploading the PDF and the review process is available.

Keep in mind that the Thesis and Dissertation Office staff does not have any notification that a student plans to submit a signature page until we get this email. If you are aware of anything that may complicate the process of obtaining signatures, please contact us to let us know of the situation.