Facility Online Manager

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Bloomsburg University requires all students to log instrument hours in an online platform, Facility Online Manager. This helps the department track instrument usage for maintenance and consumable purposes as well as minimize time conflicts between users who would like to use the same instrument at the same time.

New User Registration

1. Go to https://instrumentschedule.com.

2. Select “BLOOMU”.

   

3. Click “I am a new user”.

   

4. Fill out the registration form as follows:

   Field	Description
   User Class	Internal User
   Login Name	The first part of your email address before @huskies.bloomu.edu.
   Create Password	Something memorable
   Password Again	As above
   First Name	Your first name as it appears on university records
   Last Name	Your last name as it appears on university records
   Email	Your full huskies.bloomu.edu email address
   Phone Number	Your cell phone number
   Category	Undergraduate
   Discipline	Educational Lab Use
   Department	The department of your major (not the department for the class your are taking)
   Supervisor	Your instructor for the class for which you are using FOM

   Note

   You will also need to correctly answer the hopefully simple math problem to avoid spammers.

   

5. Check your email and click on the verification link to verify your email address.

6. Once verified, log on to FOM. You will receive a message stating that you must have a valid account number.

   

7. Click the link and fill out the form as follows:

   Field	Description
   Research description name	The name of the class you are taking
   Account Number	Enter your account number as 052XXX where XXX is the course number. For example, CHEM232: Organic Chemistry 2 would have an account number of 052232.
   Category	Physical Sciences
   Business Pur poses/Description	OK to leave empty

   

8. Click “Add this account”. You should see similar info at the top of the page:

   Note

   You should check the “Set as default” radio button so that it is already filled in for you when you schedule time on an instrument.

   

At this time, you can go to your User Home page, but it should be empty. You will need to wait until you receive training and appropriate access to the equipment.

Scheduling Time

Once you have access to your desired instrumentation, you may now schedule time.

1. Find the desired instrument on your User Home Page.

   

2. Click on the name of the instrument to go to the instrument calendar.

3. Click on your desired start time on the calendar. You may notice other users who have reservations indicating that the instrument is not available at that time.

   

4. A “New reservation” window will appear. If you selected a default financial account, it will already be filled in for you. Indicate your expected end time and include a quick description of what you will be doing or what you will be examining.

   

Using the Instrument

At your scheduled time you must remember to both log on and log off of the instrument.

Warning

Failure to log on or off will limit your access to the instrument in the future.

1. Open your reservation from the calendar. You will have an option to “Logon” or “Cancel reserved time”.

   

2. When you are finished using the instrument, open your reservation from the calendar again. There may be “Logoff reminders” that must be checked in order to log off from the instrument. You will also have an opportunity to indicate if something was wrong with the instrument. Please make any additional comments as requested by your instructor.

   

Note

For your convenience, many instruments have a QR code posted that will bring you directly to the appropriate calendar.