DIGITAL MEASURES

DOCUMENTING YOUR CAREER ONLINE

NEW FACULTY ORIENTATIONAUGUST 2015

Sandy Welch, Senior Vice Provost for Institutional Effectiveness

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

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

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

Resource - Vita User’s Manual

Found on UTSA’s DM homepageExplains:

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

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

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

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.

DM and Important Career Milestones

Annual Report (previous slides) Third Year Review Promotion and Tenure Review Comprehensive Periodic

Evaluation (post-tenure review)

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

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. 

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.

Questions and Comments