1. Digital Measures Faculty Activity Insight profile
Activity Insight organizes and builds reports on teaching, research and service activities. It enables you to keep track of your activity information just once so that many outputs can be prepared, such as annual activity reports, accreditation reports, your CV, your profile on your campus website and more

2. The Goal
Configure the application to meet the college specific requirements for faculty annual review and accreditation
Integrate with current campus data sources to receive data and export data
Enter faculty profile information for COEHP, FJAD, THTR, SOCI, CHBC
Create reports that meet the college faculty annual review requirements
Train faculty and administrators on the application
Utilize the application for the faculty annual review
assist in the creation of permanent training documentation for the colleges

3. data entry, the facts What we did
Credentials & Expertise
Graduate & post graduate training
Licensures & certifications
Awards & Honors
Consulting
Media Appearances and Interviews
Faculty development activities
Professional memberships
Teaching/mentoring
Advising/directed student learning
Non-credit instruction taught
Mentoring
Teaching innovation and curriculum development
Scholarship/research
publications
Presentations
Editorial & review activities
Service
University service
Professional service
Public service
Administrative data
Work history

4. Integrations from campus sources
Screens that are locked or have locked fields in your profile
Degrees - fields
Scheduled teaching – fields
Personal & contact information - fields
Course evaluations – screen
Appointments – screen
UNLOCKED INTEGRATED SCREENS
CONTRACTS, FELOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND SPONSORED RESEARCH
Intellectual property

5. Data entry the facts Placeholders/temporary data
If the CV did not provide a start and/or end date on screens that require a date, the data entry team used:
Start date - The CV UofA appointment date *
End date - October 1st, 2018 *
Publications:
scholarly/non-scholarly field default is non-scholarly unless it was a journal
Under review – submitted date field *
Under contract or in progress – entered into Research Activity
Add % of contribution
Presentations:
Invited/accepted, refereed/peer-reviewed, accepted/presented/submitted - review
Editorial & Review – dates *
Consulting – defaulted to pro-bono

6. data entry, the facts What we did not do
Did not assume data or dates or status
Did not enter Biography & Expertise Screen
Did not enter Web profile Screen
Did not enter Academic Advising Summary
Only information from Razorgrants has been entered into the Contracts, fellowship, grants & Sponsored Research screen
Did not consistently enter Research activity – unless publications under contract or in progress
Did not enter Student awards & honors
Did not enter Workload information
Did not link co-authors, co-presenters or co-investigators

7. your Digital measures profile
Activities/accomplishments
Reports/CV’s
Vita – reports – create a new report
Biographical Sketch – ABET/NIH/NSF
Scheduled teaching by Faculty
Self service reports
Chair has access to additional reports
From your CV – 2015 to the most recent item has been entered into Activity insight
Data entry team provided notations on your original CV
Questions/clarifications/date range issues
DATA entry CV template

8. Navigating activity insight and updating your profile
Log in to digital measures measures/
Use your university account without and your password
Select reports
Select the data entry CV report – export as a word document – save – hit the back arrow to go back to your profile screen
The report will show activities by date
It will group the activity by type
It will identify screens without data
Open the saved CV

9. Quick Screen Summary/Review Guide
Review Guide in digital measures
Biography & Expertise
Demonstrate the web profile
Faculty development activities – you attended
Scheduled teaching – single course summary
Course Evaluation screen – cumulation of sections
Non-credit instruction taught – you lead or taught
Contracts, fellowships, grants and sponsored research
proposals – have a date submitted field
externally sponsored research data is from 2014 to 11/30/18
The start funding date and the award date are the same
Intellectual property – only items from Technology Ventures
Service – University, professional and public

10. Course Evaluation screen interpreted
University course and instructor questions Mean & median
ARSC College course and instructor questions mean & median
Assignments are related to goals of the course
The teaching methods used in this course enable me to learn
The stated goals of this course are consistently pursued
My instructor displays a clear understanding of course topics
My instructor is readily available for consultation
My instructor explains difficult material clearly
CHBC Department course and instructor questions mean & median
The syllabus is an accurate guide to course
Practical applications of course materials are discussed
My instructor attempts to relate my present learning to work in my future profession
My instructor checks on students’ understanding during presentations
Mean Course Evaluation Score =
All Responses
Added and divided by number of responses

11. Course evaluation screen interpreted
University course and instructor questions mean & median
ARSC College Course and Instructor questions mean & median
Assignments are related to goals of the course
The teaching methods used in this course enable me to learn
The stated goals of this course are consistently pursued
My instructor displays a clear understanding of course topics
My instructor is readily available for consultation
My instructor explains difficult material clearly
SOCI course and instructor questions mean & median
This course emphasizes problem solving
Overall, this course is among the best I have taken
My instructor is actively helpful when students have problems
My instructor provides useful feedback throughout the semester
My instructor communicates at a level appropriate to my understanding
Mean Course Evaluation Score =
All Responses
Added and divided by number of responses

12. Course evaluation screen interpreted
University course and instructor questions mean & median
ARSC College Course and Instructor questions mean & median
Assignments are related to goals of the course
The teaching methods used in this course enable me to learn
The stated goals of this course are consistently pursued
My instructor displays a clear understanding of course topics
My instructor is readily available for consultation
My instructor explains difficult material clearly
THTR course and instructor questions mean & median
Difficult concepts are explained in a helpful way
Evaluations of my performance/artistic products are constructive
My instructor values my creativity and/or originality
My instructor displays a personal interest in students and their learning
My instructor encourages questions and expression of ideas
Mean Course Evaluation Score =
All Responses
Added and divided by number of responses

13. Publications BibTex Imports/import from third party/manual entry
How to - located on the Digital Measures landing page at
We used the University Libraries quicksearch to validate publications at
Quick example using quicksearch
We used to determine a peer-reviewed or refereed publication
We used to bulk import
After Import you should complete these fields:
Scholarly or non-scholarly
Peer-reviewed or refereed
Do NOT link authors (no address) – add roles
% of contribution if larger work

14. Entering your Workload information
Under administrative data select the workload information screen
Select add new item
Select spring and enter 2018 in the year field
Populate the appropriate percentages
Select save and add another
Select fall and enter 2018 in the year field
Select save
More than likely you will enter this information every term

15. Upcoming
In the Spring of 2019 the Universities new campus web data will display your biography/Expertise and web profile data from digital measures to your campus web profile
By request: group training for importing publications
By request: group training for “how to reporting”
By request: customizing your CV in Digital Measures

16. Support https://its.uark.edu/digital-measures/
Getting started guide
About Digital Measures
This presentation
Support & questions concerning data entry
Your department chair/administrator
Elizabeth mccorcle –

17. Expression of appreciation Digital Measures Advisory Committee Randy Putt – basis allen fields – uaconnect heather Frankenberger – razorgrants Ling Ting – ITS data guru doug miles – institutional research Mike Akerman – API guru DM Data Entry Team Webdev team Kate, Wes, Anna, Michael and Ethel Jeremy smith CHBC Librarian