No. The same login credentials you use within your institution are also used to access BioRAFT. This is accomplished through integration with your institution's authenication system. This is a standard approach that is used by many enterprise level applications and is widely reguarded as the proper approach for authenicating users.
Plus, it is simply easier for people to remember the passwords they already use regularly.
Prior to launch the BioRAFT team will import a list of PI's into the system for you. If you don't have a list of PI's, you can add them by simply searching for their name and clicking add.
Then you can send the PI's an email (using the Smart Mailer template feature) asking them to add their lab members into BioRAFT. This a quick and easy task for the PI's. A PI can alternatively simply add their lab manager who can go in and add the rest of the lab members. The EHS/compliance staff members can update the list of lab members for any lab at any time.
In a short time you will have a comprehensive list of all the people in your research center.
Yes. We have a Temporary Account Module that manages the process of creating and monitoring guest accounts. Only a few individuals are given the access to create temp accounts to ensure this is controlled tightly.
This feature is especially helpful for granting summer researchers and vendors access to BioRAFT to complete safety training and online documents.