The Digital Measures Faculty Activity Reports system provides the opportunity to record and store a vast amount of information. Not all fields are required by all departments. Please talk with your department chair about what fields are required. Keep in mind, all voluntary information may still be entered and may be useful for RPT and personal records. A note about dates in Digital Measures: Activities are stored and reports are run by date range not just term descriptions. Please provide dates whenever possible. For activities that you have started but not yet completed or for ongoing obligations, specify the start date and leave the end date blank. To select a specific topic, click on any of the menu options below: General Information Name and email have been uploaded from official records. If either of these fields are incorrect please contact Human Resources. ________________________ This page only needs to be filled out once. Information will carry over from year to year. - Enter your starting rank at UCCS and the dates for any applicable changes. One record per Academic Year. To edit information click on the year. If information is relatively the same for subsequent years, you have the option of duplicating records instead of entering all new info. Click the checkbox then select Duplicate. Your primary department, based on HR files, is entered for you. If you hold positions in other departments, enter them here. If you have different faculty ranks in more than one department, enter the highest rank here. (Administrative positions are recorded elsewhere) AACSB fields should only be visible and required for Business faculty. If you are uncertain what workload percentages should be entered here, contact your department chair. The information on this screen is optional, but may be helpful when developing a CV for RPT or other reports. Enter all administrative roles here. Include the type of position (dean, chair, etc.) and the scope (college, dept. or university) If this is an ongoing position, leave the End Date blank. The information on this screen is optional, but may be helpful when developing a CV for RPT or other reports. The information on this screen is optional, but may be helpful when developing a CV for RPT or other reports. This screen is required for all faculty. Enter all completed degrees. The information on this screen is generally optional, but it may be required in some instances to account for potential conflicts of interest. Also, it may be helpful when developing a CV for RPT or other reports. Teaching Total number of students for the academic year – individual/detailed advising is recorded under Directed Student Learning. Advising recorded here should include only formal academic or career advising sessions. Master’s and Ph.D. Thesis/Dissertations et al. that are available in the data warehouse are uploaded twice a year. These can be edited and other records can be entered, as needed. All scheduled teaching is uploaded from the data warehouse. If you have any questions or see any issues with the data, contact the Digital Measures administrator in the Institutional Research office. Uploaded teaching data cannot be edited. The fields below are editable and can be used to provide additional detail. Scholarship/Research Primary work types include: Art Dance Drama Music Novels/Nonfiction Poetry Theatre Information that is available from the data warehouse will be uploaded. Additional information can be added as needed. For Items that were submitted but not funded, enter Date Submitted for Funding and/or End Date of Funding. There are two options for entering Intellectual Contributions and Publications: Importing or manual entry. Importing your items: Connecting to PubMed will let you transfer items you have recorded there directly to the Digital Measures form. If your items are stored in another software system, such as Google Scholar or Endnote, you can export the citations into a BibTeX file and then import that file into Digital Measures. For a more details on how to import citations, visit the Digital Measures BibTeX overview page - http://info.digitalmeasures.com/bibtex Contributions reported here should be original works. Reviews of other works are recorded under Service/Professional activities. When you are entering a new publication you are automatically assigned as the 1st author. There is no need to enter your name/credentials. If there are additional authors you can add them here and rearrange the order, as needed. Remember, it may not be necessary to fill out all fields. Check with your chair to see what your department requirements are. When you are entering a new record you are automatically entered as an inventor. There is no need to reenter your name. When you are entering a new record you are automatically entered as a presenter. There is no need to reenter your name. This page should only be used for items that don’t fit under any other category. The Department and College Service screens are identical. The University Service screen includes a more extensive list of positions/roles than the Department or College screens. Any service at the university, at the local or system level, can be recorded here.