Faculty Activity Reporting: How to Manage It Quickly, Efficiently, and Accurately Activity Insight is a proven, web-based solution that makes faculty activity data and custom-formatted reports immediately available to those who need them most. Streamline reporting and respond quickly to requests for faculty activity information. Accrediting bodies, state legislators, provosts, department chairs, and many others require up-to-date faculty activity data to make informed assessments and strategic decisions. Activity Insight eliminates the challenge of having to pull information from numerous locations each time information is needed. Unlimited Customization Activity Insight is fully customizable—at no additional cost. You’ll begin with a proven application, which has been enhanced based on the field experiences of hundreds of users across more than 2,000 clients, from small colleges to large universities. Digital Measures then tailors the system to meet your unique needs. Increase Productivity Campus-wide with Activity Insight Campus leaders have immediate access to data for more accurate analyses and improved decision making. >> Faculty have complete control over their data. >> Institutional research office staff have flexible data importing and exporting capabilities. >> Information services staff have no responsibility for developing and maintaining in-house software. >> Administrative staff have unimagined efficiency in accessing and aggregating data. >> Collect only the information you need—from campus-wide statistics to that of individual colleges, schools, departments, or select segments of the faculty. The interface and fields can be tailored when you want to collect information that is unique to only a portion of the faculty, such as those in arts-related colleges versus those in the college of engineering. For intuitive data entry, users are only shown relevant fields and prompted to input information pertinent to them. Use Reports Instead of Preparing Them With Activity Insight you can easily produce reports in the precise formats needed. Activity Insight comes loaded with an initial set of report templates commonly used by universities—including many for accreditation—for your immediate use. For your specific reporting needs, Digital Measures will create custom templates in Microsoft® Word or Excel®. These templates are designed to your exact specifications, including layout, logos, and fonts. Because you can never anticipate every reporting need, Activity Insight makes it possible to produce single-use reports at a moment’s notice using the ad hoc reporting function. Create Unlimited Custom Report Templates Accreditation Annual activities >> Assessment results >> College and department statistics >> Grants >> Legislative updates >> Promotion and tenure >> System- and campus-wide reporting >> Teaching >> >> Gain a Central Repository for Documents Faculty can archive full-text documents in Activity Insight, including publications, articles, presentations, and syllabi—even audio and video files—to make them available to campus leaders and colleagues, and for future use. © 2011 Digital Measures 1 Easily Import, Export, and Share Data Activity Insight allows you to import, input, export, and share data. You can import vast amounts of data, including teaching assignments and contact information, from on-campus systems to eliminate redundant data entry. Faculty, staff, and assigned proxies can also enter individual records. Data can be exported in several formats for further analysis using any statistical software. And, Web services can instantaneously update faculty contact information, bios, and activities on designated websites. How Academic Institutions Are Using Activity Insight Administrators, academic leaders, and department heads responsible for reporting faculty activity use Activity Insight to demonstrate: Compliance with professional and regional accrediting bodies >> Research and other funded activities >> Noteworthy successes >> >> >> Readiness of faculty members for advancement Annual activities of departments, schools, colleges, and campuses Data is Always Secure You own the data you enter into Activity Insight and we keep it secure through a number of industry-standard measures. Data is transmitted over secure, encrypted connections, and multiple, redundant backups are made daily to geographically distant servers throughout the nation. You can also opt to house the data on your local server. Personalized Client Service Digital Measures’ clients are assigned a dedicated Client Manager. This individual is your main point of contact—someone who knows you, your account, and your needs. You’ll also have access to helpdesk support, users’ groups, and easy-to-understand learning guides to maintain your productivity. Even More Useful In the Future Clients inevitably discover additional uses for Activity Insight once they begin using it. You’ll likely make the same discovery. Your Client Manager can share how other academic institutions improved productivity by using Activity Insight. “ Collect the Faculty Activity Information You Need Abstracts Appointments Awards Books and chapters authored or edited >> Consulting >> Courses taught >> Curricula developed >> Funded research >> Graduate and post-doctoral advisorships >> Lectures >> Patents >> Pedagogical enhancements >> Presentations >> Publications >> Research >> Service >> >> >> >> ” As we’re working on AACSB, NCA, and ABET accreditation, long-range planning, or trying to figure out the academic qualifications of our faculty—I can get all of the information out of Digital Measures’ Activity Insight with a click of a button. J. Michael Bernstein, J.D., Assistant Dean, Wright State University About DigitalMeasures Digital Measures focuses exclusively on web-based data management and reporting solutions for universities and colleges. It provides services to more than 2,000 universities and colleges worldwide with its two flagship solutions, Course Response™—a course evaluation system—and Activity Insight™—a faculty activity data management and reporting system. Its clients include 60 percent of the nation’s higher education schools with 5,000 or more students. The Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based company was founded in 1999. Digital Measures and Activity Insight are your best solution for efficient faculty activity reporting. For more information, visit www.digitalmeasures.com or contact Digital Measures at 866-348-5677. © 2011 Digital Measures 2