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  • Inform your committee members and your Graduate Studies Committee (GSC) Representative that a Report of Dissertation/Treatise Form will be sent via DocuSign before you begin the submission process.  They will receive an email from the "ELP Graduate Coordinator via DocuSign" (dse@docusign.net) confirming your petition to report a successful Dissertation/Treatise defense with your committee. (to report the result of your dissertation/treatise defense with your committee).

Required Information for DocuSign Final Oral Request 

  • The names and email addresses of your Supervisor, Co-Supervisor or Member 2, Member 3, Member 4, and the GSC Representative Chair or Co-Chair are required. Members 5-7 may be left blank if you don’t have that many members in your committee.
    • The current GSC Representative is Dr. Sarah Woulfin, (sarah.woulfin@austin.utexas.edu). Contact the department if you don’t know the name of the current GSC representative.You can find the ELP GSC Chair/Co-chair through the GSC Member Search
  • The final title of your Dissertation/Treatise as agreed upon by your committee. 

DocuSign Submission

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NOTE: Do not begin the process until you have all the information noted above. Stopping before reaching the end will create abandoned documents in the DocuSign system. Abandoned forms cannot be accessed again and you will have to start over.


DocuSign Submission

DocuSign Report of Dissertation Committee PowerForm Link: http://links.utexas.edu/bldxrqe

DocuSign will automatically forward the form to your Graduate Coordinator. They will have an opportunity to ensure that the committee members information was submitted correctly. The form will then be sent to all committee members for their eSignature

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DocuSign will send you an email with a [Review Document] link. Save this email and use the link to monitor the progress of your form signatures. From the linked webpage, click [Other Actions] menu —> [Certificate of Completion] to review who has and who has not yet signed the document.

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Once the process is complete, you will receive a second email from DocuSign

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. To save for your records: Click “View Completed Document”

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> “Download” button at the top of the document

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> select the “Combined PDF” option and save the document to your computer. A combined document includes the form

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, certificate of completion

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, and a full audit trail of your DocuSign transaction. 

Submit the combined pdf Report of Dissertation Committee form electronically to the Graduate School at gradstudentsvcs@austin.utexas.eduby the published deadline.


For more information on digital submission requirements and deadline & submission instructions, as required by the Graduate School, please visit https://gradschool.utexas.edu/academics/theses-and-dissertations.

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