1. DIGITAL MEASURES D OCUMENTING Y OUR C AREER O NLINE N EW F ACULTY O RIENTATION A UGUST 2015 Sandy Welch, Senior Vice Provost for Institutional Effectiveness

2. What is Digital Measures (DM)?  Online database that stores faculty activities/accomplishments  ONLY acceptable UTSA means for submitting your academic career information  Available 24-7  Used to meet reporting requirements and needs  Note: If you used DM at another university we can help you obtain your info

3. Where is DM?  Click on: “myUTSA link” at top UTSA Homepage  Click on “Digital Measures” link to right of Faculty/Staff box  Review info on DM Homepage: http://provost.utsa.edu/vpaie/dm/  Go to DM Login: click “UTSA Digital Measures” box (with Rowdy emblem) on upper right of DM homepage

4. Your DM Vita  Information about your General Career  Information related to Teaching  Information related to Scholarship/Research/Creative Works  Information related to Service  Information about Other activities  Generated in Word, Adobe PDF, or HTML

5. Resource - Vita User’s Manual  Found on UTSA’s DM homepage  Explains:  How to enter activities and accomplishments  Appropriate locations for activities and accomplishments to be entered  How to generate and print your vita  How to save your vita

6. DM Annual Report Content  For each calendar year:  Your classes, student evaluations and any other pedagogical accomplishments and information  Your research/creative accomplishments for the year  Your service accomplishments  Any other activities  Your comments about each of the above

7. Annual Report Importance  Explains value of your teaching, research (or creative works), service and other activities in the Annual Report Summary link  Used to judge level your accomplishments and your merit increase so make your case!  If archived, provides valuable info resource for argument for tenure and/or promotion

8. Resources – Annual Report Manuals  Found on UTSA DM homepage  Annual Report User’s Manual  How to complete the Annual Report  Annual Report Map  Tells where each item in Vita appears in the Annual Report  Can’t find item on Annual Report? Check the map.

9. DM and Important Career Milestones  Annual Report (previous slides)  Third Year Review  Promotion and Tenure Review  Comprehensive Periodic Evaluation (post- tenure review)

10. Other DM Reporting Uses  UT System Workload Reports  UT System Faculty Activity Reports  THECB Faculty Activity Reports  Official reports for the SACSCOC regional accrediting agency  Ad hoc reports summarizing any faculty activities or accomplishments at any level

11. DM Assistance: Monday-Friday 8 to 5  For college- or department-specific advice: click on Trainers and Contact Information link at bottom of the DM homepage.  If you can’t access DM: contact OIT Connect at (oitconnect@utsa.edu) or 458-5555.

12. DM Assistance: Monday-Friday 8 to 5  For questions about DM or process assistance, or to make suggestions for improvement: contact Tia Palsole, our DM administrator, at digitalmeasures@utsa.edu or 458-8038.  Click “Contact Our Helpdesk” link on the upper left on all DM date entry screens to send an email to Tia  Tia will provide training during the fall semester.

13. Questions and Comments