Faculty Workspace Overview

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This article provides an overview of the faculty workspace.

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My Activities and Forms

In this section of your workspace, you can manage your outside professional activities and reported earnings/effort. The dashboard layout varies for Deans and Faculty Administrators.

The following is an overview of the faculty workspace:

1. Activity buttons: The following buttons help you add activities and manage your activity effort.
   • Fiscal Year Indicator: The fiscal year indicator displays the current fiscal year you're viewing and provides an option to switch between different fiscal years.
   • Enter an Activity: Select this button to add a new activity to your workspace.
   • Copy Activity: Select this button to duplicate an activity from a previous fiscal year into the current fiscal year.
   • Add Earnings/Effort: Select this button to log the time and earnings from outside activities.
2. Dashboard: The dashboard displays the following.
   • Summary: The Summary section gives an overview of actions you need to complete, such as forms that need to be submitted for approval and Annual Certification that needs to be completed.
   • Reported Time: This threshold bar shows the hours you've reported alongside your time threshold. The first bar shows time within your threshold and the second bar shows reported time that has exceeded your threshold.
   • Reported Earnings: This threshold bar shows your reported earnings and your threshold.
3. Activity Actions: The following buttons enable you to manage your activities and report earnings and effort.
   • Edit Activity: Select to update the activity label, organization type, and organization name, as well as add student involvement to the activity.
   • Delete Activity: Select to delete the activity from your workspace. 
   • Add Earnings/Effort: Select to report the time and earnings from the activity.
   • Activity Notes: Select to add notes and documentation about the activity. These notes are not private and can be viewed by staff with access to your account.
4. Show/Hide buttons: Select Show to view and manage your reported effort and Hide to hide the effort fields.
5. Forms: This section shows prior approval forms related to the activity, with the real-time status of each form displayed.
6. Effort Actions: There are a couple of options available to help you manage your effort.
   • Edit Effort: Select this option to modify your reported earnings/effort.
   • Delete Effort: Select this option to delete the reported earnings/effort.
7. My Annual Certifications tab: 
   • My Annual Certifications tab: This tab is where you can complete and view past Annual Certifications.

Dean/ Faculty Administrator Dashboard

Here is an example of the dashboard for Deans and Faculty administrators.

My Annual Certifications

This section of your workspace displays all your past and current Annual Certification reports. Here, you can submit your Annual Certification and check its status.