Activity Reporting

Some significant changes have been made as to how Annual Advising Summary records are handled within Digital Measures at Michigan Tech (DM). The changes are intended to better capture and report on advising activities outside of traditional graduate student advising.

While the Annual Advising Summary screen itself has only been minimally revised, the Advising section of the Faculty Activity Reports (FARs) has been modified to encompass more data from the Annual Advising Summary screen by academic year. Users can now add a general annual advising statement via the narrative field that invites users to speak on general and specific advising points that are not captured elsewhere in the FARs. The revised section will now report on many more non-traditional advising relationships for users serving in those roles. The changes also make it easier for users serving as academic advisors to accurately report on their efforts.

Users are encouraged to visit the newly revised screen to ensure they have indeed entered all advising roles and reviewers are encouraged to take the additional data now available in the FARs into consideration during the review process.