Update: Dynamic Summary Screens

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We’re excited to share a new update for our Digital Measures system here at UTC that’s focused on making things easier for you! You’ll be able to quickly see which activities you’ve already captured, and more easily review things for completeness, so you can be confident that what’s in the system accurately and comprehensively reflects your accomplishments. We know you are busy, so the goal here is to save you time by making data management easier.

When you log into the system next and go to any of your activity screens, you’ll see some new options that give you more control over the view:

  • A new spreadsheet-style layout makes it easier and faster to review your records to see what’s there, avoid redundant work, and verify the completeness of your information.
  • Sorting, filtering and search option help you pinpoint specific records that need additional information, so you can close gaps more quickly.
  • The ability to change which columns display, and save those preferences from session to session, gives you the power to focus on the elements that matter most for what you’re doing at that moment.

This quick video explores the new tool and how to use it.

It’s important to have your accomplishments and activities in Digital Measures for a number of reasons. Here at UTC, this platform supports our annual reviews, accreditation reporting, and your public-facing web profiles.

If you have questions, please email us at academic-affairs@utc.edu.  

Summer 2021 Digital Measures Newsletter

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Faculty Web Profile Spotlight

It has been an exciting year with the release of UTC’s Faculty Web Profiles. To celebrate, we wanted to dedicate the first half of the newsletter to spotlight a few fantastic profiles across campus. We have highlighted some aspects of each profile; however, don’t just take our word for it; we hope you will check their full profile out!

Dr. Lynette Carlson

The first thing you will notice when viewing Dr. Carlson’s profile is that her photo highlights her work in the field. Your directory photo is not tied to your Digital Measures profile, which allows you to provide an alternative photo for your Faculty Web profile. Such a great photo complements the biography Dr. Carlson included on their page!

Check it out!

Dr. Tammy Garland

Though service might be the 5th tab on Dr. Garland’s profile, it doesn’t mean it is forgotten! Here you will find many of the ways Dr. Garland contributes to the university and community. The services category can include University, College, Department Service, Community and Public Service, and Professional Service.

Check it out!

Dr. Daniel Loveless

Did you know you can display your course schedule on your profile? Dr. Loveless uses the instruction tab to show his latest courses. You will also find a fantastic list of teaching interests on this tab as well!

Check it out!

Dr. Claudia Williamson

The Probasco Chair of Free Enterprise at UTC contributes to the public knowledge and understanding of economic theory and practice. On Dr. Williamson’s profile, you will find some highlighted scholarly activities highlighting her research interests and contributions! We enjoy seeing Dr. Williamson leveraging the flexibility of the system to include those items published and accepted.

Check it out!

HOW DOES YOUR WEB PROFILE LOOK?

With Faculty Web Profiles, you get to choose what you want to display or hide, tailoring your web profile to reflect the great work you wish to promote! 
View Our Resource Guide

Objectives Before You Go!

The 2021-2022 Annual Performance Review (EDO) workflow kicked off in early March for all full-time faculty. This is a busy time of year for you, so we wanted to remind you to visit Digital Measures for logging your yearly objectives! Your UTC Digital Measures Team is here to assist you if you have any questions throughout the process.

How does Faculty Reporting Benefit You?

1. Faculty activity reporting becomes a collaborative tool. 

Digital Measures enables you to enter activities once and use that data infinitely. Department Heads can pull the information needed for their reports without bothering you.

2. Faculty activity reporting gives you a functional repository. 

Digital Measures collects your information and ensures all activities and accomplishments, including supporting artifacts (like grant award letters, full-texts of publications, and PowerPoint presentations), are available to answer the many information requests that are asked of you each year.

3. Faculty activity reporting enables you to furnish information faster.

Digital Measures eliminates the tedious process of compiling the same information in different formats many times each year.  It allows you to authentically represent your life’s work by pulling data directly from the system into customized CV’s and other materials to support grant applications, conference proposals, and more.

4. Faculty activity reporting helps you manage your milestones. 

You have one place to enter your development and activities which can be used for all of your reporting needs.

5. Faculty activity reporting can assist in the accreditation process.

When your profile is up to date, accreditation reports can be generated more readily.

6. Faculty activity reporting raises your profile. 

Did you know that web profiles rank among the three most-read sections of any university’s website?  Digital measures can automatically populate your web profile, so you’re always up to date.

Reports for all occasions

Did you know you can create custom reports in Digital Measures? The system provides faculty and administrators with various options, including a self-service report-building tool to quickly generate a report of what you need. Your Digital Measures Administrators can also build advanced reports for departments to use for various needs, such as accreditation or dashboarding!

If you are interested in a custom report, let us know here!
 

Spring 2021 Digital Measures Newsletter

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CV Imports

It’s here! The CV Imports feature for Digital Measures is now live!

The Digital Measures CV Imports feature gives you a quicker, easier way to enter your CV information for more comprehensive and accurate scholarly activity reporting. With an intuitive, carefully-designed interface, the CV Imports feature allows you to upload your CV and use highlighting technology to associate your accomplishments with the right screens and fields within Digital Measures. With the addition of this data entry feature, you can feel confident that your Digital Measures profile is accurate. With this tool, you can quickly update your database to comprehensively reflect your activities. It can also be used to celebrate and showcase your accomplishments. This is an amazing tool for generating a more robust web profile!

Learn More →

Faculty Web Profiles

We are excited to announce this new feature! 

Full-time faculty at UTC now have the ability to share and manage their own Faculty Profile page through Digital Measures. Using Digital Measures, faculty can choose to display or hide particular accomplishments or information, tailoring their web profiles to reflect the great work they wish to promote. Everything is opt-in, ensuring faculty control their narrative, sharing the accomplishments that best represent their current scholarship and interest.

Visit our Digital Measures Faculty Web Profile Site to learn more!

EDO Process in Digital Measures

Did you know that more than half of the academic departments on campus used Digital Measures for their 2020-2021 annual evaluations?  After a very successful reporting year, we will be implementing the upcoming 2021-2022 annual review for all full-time faculty members campus wide in Digital Measures.  No more shuffling PDF’s around campus!  More information to come soon!

Coming Soon – Reappointment, promotion and tenure process pilot.  More information to follow.

Spring Into Digital Measures with a Training Session

The team will be conducting a Digital Measures workshop on February 4th, 2021. In this workshop we will focus on

  • Faculty Web Profiles
  • EDO Process

Register Here →

Other Learning Opportunities

If you are unable to attend a pre-scheduled training, we have various training modules on our support site to assist you! You may also request a training session for a time and date that works best for you!

Fall 2019 Digital Measures Newsletter

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Fall 2019

You Spoke, We Listened!

In With the New and Out With the Old!

Have you noticed the change to our Scholarship/Research screens?

We are excited to announce we now have one location for your publications, appropriately called “publications”.  This replaces the previous two sections titled “Scholarly Activity Published” and “Scholarly Activity in Progress.”

 

EDO Integration

We’re winding down the objectives phase of Planning and Performance Reporting within Digital Measures with 243 EDO test pilots.  If your department is participating in the pilot and you have not completed your objectives, please make sure to do so by September 15.  If you would like to revise your previously submitted objectives, please use the link below to let us know.

Let us Know!

Fall Back Into Digital Measures with a Training Session

Welcome to our new faculty

Our Digital Measures team will be conducting a Digital Measures lab on November 14, for the Teaching and Learning Institution Institute.  If you would like a training session or have questions prior to this date, please click on the link below.

Returning faculty

If you would like a refresher, we are here for you too.  Let us know what time best works for you by clicking the link below.

Training Request

Coming Soon!

Here is a sample of a few enhancements on the horizon

  • New citation styles for reporting
    • American Medical Association (AMA)
    • American Society Civil Engineers
    • Chicago Author-Date
    • Chicago Bibliography and Notes
  • Custom departmental reports
    • CAPTE Accreditation Template
    • College of Arts and Sciences Annual Report Template

If your department would like to leverage Digital Measures for your reporting needs, please click here.

  • Integration with student evaluations
  • Faculty Web Profiles

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Spring 2019 Digital Measures Newsletter

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Spring 2019

You Spoke, We Listened!

Teaching Schedule Screen Update

Have you looked at your teaching schedule in Digital Measures lately?  Not only are your courses automatically downloaded for you, but we’ve added boxes where you can elaborate on each course. Give it a look over.  We believe you will be excited to see the changes!  Your feedback made it happen!.

Need a Boost? Email Us!

 

Friends

Will you be our friend?  We plan to put together a “friends” group with representatives from each college. This group will communicate with faculty in their college to keep them up to date on all things Digital Measures and help us further adapt Digital Measures to meet your department’s needs.  We plan to meet quarterly or more often as needed.  If you would like to volunteer to represent your college or would like more information then click below!

Let us Know!

Goals / Individual Objectives

For those of you in the pilot, you may have noticed that the Individual Objectives in Workflow have a due date of September 15, 2019. This will enable you to go back and revise your objectives up until that date.  Of course, your department head will determine when he/she would like to review them.  Once submitted, you will still be able to revise them.  Just shoot us an email and we will send them back to you for revisions.

EDO Guides

EDO Pilot

We conducted an EDO pilot for the 2018-2019 evaluation period. We thank the following departments for their participation: Communication, English, Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, Performing Arts, Philosophy and Religion, Political Science and Public Service, Counselor Education, Integrated Studies, Interior Design, Learning and Leadership, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, School of Education, School of Nursing, School Psychology, and Social Work. They provided us with great feedback which enabled us to enhance the process for our next round of annual evaluations. HHP, Accounting, Psychology, and Engineering Management and Technology will be joining us for the 2019-2020 round of our pilot.

Thank you for your feedback!

Fall 2018 Digital Measures Newsletter

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Fall 2018

Did you Know?

  • Going forward, we will refer to Activity Insight as Digital Measures. Please double check all of your bookmarks to ensure they still work.
  • We offer Digital Measures as a tool to document all of your hard work – not just research, but also teaching and service.
  • You enter or import your data once, and then you can use it anywhere you need it.
  • We offer tools to import your information from a variety of sources, including Google Scholar, Web of Science, Crossref, and PubMed.
  • Using a tablet or phone? Digital Measures work on those devices as well as your desktop computer.
  • If your department needs reports or workflows for accreditation or program review, we can build them for you.
  • To support you best, we offer a resource page for Digital Measures, found here
  • If you have any questions concerning Digital Measures don’t hesitate to ask your UTC Digital Measures Administrators, Vickie Adkison & Donny Behneman.

Email Us Here!

 

Are you up to date?

All full-time faculty (lecturers, tenure-track and tenured) must have a profile in Digital Measures to include the most recent 5 years of Teaching, Scholarship/Research and Service Activities. If you haven’t already, please use the link below to provide us an update on your status.

Let us Know!

Need a Boost?

Approximately 82% of our full-time faculty have had Digital Measures training. If you would like a training or refresher session, please use the link below. We have sessions that accommodate any schedule!

Sign-up Here

EDO Sneak Peak!

We are excited to announce that we are conducting a pilot test for our faculty annual review (EDO) with a few departments using Digital Measures. Phase I of entering “Individual Objectives” is almost complete. Phase II (the “Individual Performance Report” and the “Individual Evaluation”) will begin in March 2019. For a sneak peek at the process click on the link below.

EDO Sneak Peak