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The next deadline for initial and final thesis submissions is April 15 th . For initial thesis submission, your myThesis status should be “Eval. Authorized by GPD” by midnight, April 15 th . This means your submissions was approved by the supervisor(s) and GPD.

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Click the button below to access myThesis:

part of the myProgress hub. McGill graduate students are required to use myThesis 1) to notify their supervisors in advance of their intent to submit their thesis, 2) to nominate thesis examiners, 3) for initial thesis submission, 4) for examiner evaluation, 5) for oral defence preparation, and 6) for final thesis submission.

Benefits of myThesis

• A transparent, streamlined approval process for the nomination of examiners and initial thesis submission.
• Status updates allow students, supervisors, and departments to keep track of the initial thesis submission process.
• As of February 21st 2022: Status updates allow students, supervisors, and departments to track the evaluation process.

Support resources

Guidelines are available:

• Student Guidelines
• Supervisor Guidelines
• Unit Guidelines (Revised, July 25th, 2023)

Watch our how-to video here .

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myThesis (Thesis Examination Management )

Service overview.

myThesis, McGill University’s Thesis Examination Management platform, allows masters and doctoral thesis students to register their intention to submit, upload their initial thesis and follow it's progress all the way to the final thesis submission. (See question 2 in the FAQ below for an overview of the complete thesis submission process.)

Who can use it

Registered masters and doctoral thesis students; McGill staff who are Supervisors, Co-Supervisors, Thesis Committee members, Graduate Program Directors (GPD), Graduate Program Coordinators (GPC), Graduate Associate Dean (GAD), Graduate Department Chair (GDC) and Graduate Postdoctoral Studies (GPS); Examiners both internal and external to McGill.

How to request & access the service

Request access (if needed).

Thesis students are automatically granted access when they have an active registration/academic record and are assigned a Supervisor.

Internal staff members must complete the SIS Security request form. Access is based on roles granted for myProgress .

Access myThesis

• Go to https://www.mcgill.ca/gps/thesis
• Log in with your McGill username (firstname.lastname@mail.mcgill.ca) and password.
• You should see your McGill ID and information about your program of study. Click on your McGill ID to open the Intent to Submit Thesis page.
• Follow the instructions on screen.

McGill Staff / Supervisors

Access myThesis through links in the notification emails you will receive, or by going to: https://www.mcgill.ca/gps/thesis .

Examiners (internal and external)

A link to the myThesis system will be sent via the Examiners Invitation email; log in with the same email address that invitation was sent to. See step-by-step instructions on logging into myThesis for examiners .

There is no cost associated with this service.

Availability

The service is available 24 X 7, except during planned maintenance or outages. Check the home page of the IT Support site for announcements.

Frequently asked questions

Is there a difference between eThesis and myThesis?

eThesis is no longer being used. It was used for final thesis submission for students graduating, in the summer of 2023 at the latest .

For students graduating in the fall of 2023 and onwards , the final thesis submission is done in the myThesis system. Students who submit their initial thesis to GPS via email will not have access to myThesis.

What are the steps in final thesis submission?

Here is the progress bar from myThesis showing all the steps from intent to submit to Final Thesis submission.

Can I log into myThesis without a McGill account?

Yes, external examiners can log in via the link you receive by email. See step-by-step instructions on logging into myThesis for examiners .

How will users be notified of changes?

An email notification is sent to all parties involved, at each stage of the process, with the details specified or requested.

• If a user is not receiving notification emails from myThesis: The spam filter on the users email account may be blocking the email. Check the Spam email folder to verify if emails are being directed there. If yes, the user should change their spam filter settings to include these email notifications or to a less restrictive setting.
• If a user receives an email with no visible links: This is caused by the user’s personal email settings. If it is set to convert all emails to plain text format, all the links will be removed from the email. The user will have to change their email settings to HTML format.

Why am I receiving "An unexpected error occurred" or "Invitation redemption failed" message when trying to login?

• An incognito or private window should be opened in your browser. This is to ensure that other previously logged in accounts are not auto-populated when trying access myThesis. The user should copy and paste myThesis link (https://mythesis.mcgill.ca/) in the incognito/private window and manually enter the McGill email address and password.
• Non-McGill users should always log in using the email address that originally received the invitation.
• McGill users should always log in with their @mcgill.ca or @mail.mcgill.ca email address.
• To ensure that you are logging in with the right account, open an incognito or private window in your browser. This is to ensure that the user’s auto-populated browser fields or saved cookies do not default when clicking the email link. Copy and paste into the new incognito window the "approve/decline the invitation" URL from the email invitation. Manually enter your credentials (email address that invitation/email notification was sent to) and password.

Best practices & policies

Always log out of the application when you are finished using it. 

Never leave your computer unattended while you are logged into Minerva.

Training & documentation

Visit the Thesis section of the GPS website: https://www.mcgill.ca/gps/thesis

• For technical issues, such as inability to log into the system, contact the IT Service Desk
• For all other questions related to the process, contact the Academic Unit. See the list of Academic Units on the GPS website.

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All McGill students keep the copyright of their thesis, but with the Final Thesis Submission , they are required to agree to two non-exclusive licences via the myThesis submission platform, one with McGill Library and one with Library and Archives Canada. McGill Library and Library and Archives Canada (LAC) consider graduate theses important sources of original research and make them available in electronic form in open access. The McGill license permits McGill University to make the thesis available in electronic form through McGill repository eScholarship@McGill . The license with Library and Archives Canada (LAC) permits the thesis to be visible and accessible by creating bibliographic records available through the Theses Canada Portal .

By signing these licences, students: 

• Grant to McGill "a non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty free license, to reproduce, convert, publish, archive, preserve, conserve, communicate and distribute, and loan, in paper form, in microform, electronically by telecommunication or on the internet, and/or any other formats as may be adopted for such use from time to time."
• "Grant permission and authorize McGill University to permit access to my thesis and make it available to interested persons in paper or electronic form, through the library, interlibrary and public loan."
• Grant to LAC a licence "to reproduce, publish, archive, preserve, conserve, communicate to the public by telecommunication or on the Internet, loan, distribute and sell my thesis (the title of which is set forth above) worldwide, for commercial or non-commercial purposes, in microform, paper, electronic and/or any other formats."

Anyone seeking permissions to use material from McGill theses, must seek them directly from the author, as McGill Library does not hold any copyright in students' work.

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