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Tutorials & training

Everything you need to learn IrisBG at your own pace: a written guide to the essentials, video walkthroughs of the everyday tasks, a searchable reference inside the software, and instructor-led training when your team wants it.

Where to start

  • Knowledge Library

    Browse our step-by-step tutorials and guides. The library is constantly being updated and developed, and we welcome suggestions. Sign-in to submit a request for a topic, follow a topic and get access to all articles.

    Browse the Knowledge Library

  • Reference Guide

    Check out our searchable Reference Guide integrated in IrisBG (Help menu).

Video tutorials

Getting started with IrisBG

A five-part walkthrough of the essentials, from your first login to printing labels. Watch them in order if IrisBG is new to you.

  • Getting Started with IrisBG | Logging in

  • Getting Started with IrisBG | Express Search & Accession screen intro

  • Getting Started with IrisBG | Basic search for records

  • Getting Started with IrisBG | Items–Update status and history

  • Getting Started with IrisBG | Creating Labels

Video tutorials

Tutorials by topic

Shorter walkthroughs of specific tasks: imports, reports, seed accessions and field mapping.

  • Field Maps Tutorial: Streaming Function

  • Grouping in Field Maps Designer

  • Data Import: Design your own Import Template

  • IrisBG Reports: expand reports collection

  • Adding Accession Item Type: Seed

More on our YouTube channel

Every tutorial above comes from the IrisBG Tutorials playlist on our YouTube channel. Open the playlist to watch them end to end. Two other places where IrisBG users share insights and ideas are the monthly IrisBG Coffee Chats and the IrisBG user forum; both are covered on our community page.

IrisBG Tutorials playlist (opens in a new tab) IrisBG on YouTube (opens in a new tab)

Training

Training courses we offer

Prefer to learn with an instructor? We run training courses for teams and for the people who will train the rest of your staff.

  • Training at your premises with an instructor.
  • Training the trainer for larger organisations.

Contact us for prices and details. Training sits alongside our other services, including data migration and hosting. For day-to-day questions, our support team answers by email.

Learn IrisBG with your own collection

Follow along with real data. Request the free 60-day trial and work through the tutorials in your own copy of IrisBG.

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