Faculty Activity Reporting

Minimise the burden of faculty activity reporting

Providing you with a central hub for collecting, storing, and categorising faculty activity data, and managing faculty reviews, Elements can help you streamline your faculty activity reporting processes.

Faculty Annual Reviews are a vital tool for both academic institutions and faculty members. Not only do they play a critical role in driving the professional advancement of staff and an opportunity for recognition of good work, they’re also fundamental to tracking and providing evidence of the high quality of teaching and research across your research community.

By providing you with a central hub for research information and faculty activity data, with automated ingestion from the widest range of data sources in the industry, Symplectic Elements can streamline your annual review, assessment and reporting processes and minimise the burden placed on faculty members.

Curate all of your Faculty CV data in one place

Elements allows faculty members to curate all of the information needed to populate Faculty CVs, including biographical information as well their outputs and activities, such as:

Publications and other scholarly or creative works
Grants, fellowships, and contracts
Professional and service activities
Teaching activities, courses and supervisions

We are committed to data reuse, and our API and specialist importer tools make it easy for you to import data already collected in other institutional systems, saving faculty both time and effort.

Minimise the burden on faculty members

By maximising data reuse, Elements minimises the time that faculty members spend completing annual reviews by letting them easily reuse data already in the system. Where Elements already knows key information about the individual such as their rank or position, these important data points will be added automatically to every submission. Supplementary information can be added directly or uploaded as attachments.

Securely manage faculty submissions and reviews

Elements provides you with a secure place to manage and store both faculty submissions and reviews, and can be configured to support a wide range of reporting activities – including annual faculty review processes and accreditation reports.

Our versatile permissions settings make it easy to configure which faculty members, reviewers and managers have access to data collected at each stage throughout review processes, while dashboards make it easy for administrators to monitor faculty progress throughout the review process. With automated reviewer notifications, submission management tools (such as lock/unlock and bulk import/export), and formatting reporting at the click of a button, Elements gives you all the tools you ne to manage Faculty Annual Review submissions.

Configurable Assessment Workflows

Our flexible Assessment Module enables you to create custom assessment exercises for a wide range of purposes including Faculty Annual Reviews, internal reviews and preparatory exercises as well as formal submissions for government exercises such as the REF.

The assessment workflow is completely configurable, allowing administrators to choose how the exercise should be designed. For each exercise you can design stages where:

Researchers can select specific outputs or activities, (e.g. publications, grants, impact and professional or teaching activities) and provide supporting information.
Reviewers can assess the submissions providing scores and comments
Exercise managers can review and optimise the data collected before submission.

Workflows can also be used to streamline any process where you need to gather submissions from users – such as publication review & approvals, requests to attend conferences, internal peer reviews, and promotion rounds. The flexibility of this module means you can choose whether you want a simple one step submission or a more complex assessment with multiple rounds of review.

We understand how sensitive assessment activities can be and the module includes a configurable permissions model to ensure the data remains secure at all times.