Create and Manage Input Forms for Faculty Classifications
Faculty Classifications (FC) in Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR, Faculty180) categorize faculty into useful groups, such as by rank, tenure status, or employment status (full-time/part-time). These classifications are essential for filtering specific faculty groups using the faculty selection tool and are critical in preparing for accreditation reporting. Managing FCs requires Full Administrative Rights granted via unit permission.
Input Forms for Faculty Classifications (FC) can be provided to faculty to fill out every term/year depending on the institution's practices in updating this data/information.
When updating FCs, keep in mind that they are stored by term and year to avoid data issues. The method chosen to update FCs can affect how data is populated and stored, so incorrect options may lead to unintended consequences.
Manage Input Forms for FCs
- Navigate to the Administration page and click Create Input Form under the Input Faculty Classifications section.
- Click Add to create a new Input form.
- To manage an existing form, click the desired hyperlinked number to navigate to the Manage Input Forms page. From here you can click the Pencil (Edit) icon to edit an existing form or the “X” (Delete) icon to delete an existing form.
When deleting an input form, only the form deletes while the Faculty Classification data remains.
- To manage an existing form, click the desired hyperlinked number to navigate to the Manage Input Forms page. From here you can click the Pencil (Edit) icon to edit an existing form or the “X” (Delete) icon to delete an existing form.
- Specify the settings on the Input Form.
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Allow input form to be sent to faculty via the Communications screen: Check this box to allow the form to be selected to Send via Communication.
Selecting this option places a checkmark in the Faculty Accessible? column on the Manage Input Forms screen.
- Allow faculty to access a printable version of this input form on the Forms & Reports screen: Check this box to allow faculty to print the form on the Forms & Reports page.
- Allow faculty to access a printable version of this input form as a permanent Quicklink: Check this box to enable the ability to save the printable version of the form as a Quicklink.
- Allow evaluations to use a printable version of this input form as a document: Check this box to allow the Input Form to be used in evaluations.
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Classifications to Appear in Form: Drag and drop the faculty classifications from left to right to include the faculty classification(s) on the form. You can also click the ‘Create New Faculty Classification’ hyperlink at the bottom to create a new FC to add to the form.
The order for the classifications will affect how they appear on the form.
- Default Activity Review: Select the default activity to be available for review when completing the input form. This is only available when setting classifications for one faculty member at a time.
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Allow input form to be sent to faculty via the Communications screen: Check this box to allow the form to be selected to Send via Communication.
- Click one of the Save buttons when finished.
There is no preview for the form, it is suggested that the form be sent to the administrator creating the form via Communications for preview.
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