Activity Insight

How do I determine if the system is down?

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How do I troubleshoot Activity Insight to determine if the system is down?
  1. Can you login to other Penn State applications (such as LionPath or Penn State email)?
    • If yes, you may have a corrupt cookie or cache, this a common issue and happens frequently.
    • If no, then the problem could be with your computer or your account. Contact your local IT department for assistance.
  2. Can you clear your cookies and cache from your browser?
    • If yes, great, now let’s check your URL, go to next step.
  3. Can you go to https://activityinsight.psu.edu and click on LOGIN on the top right of the blue bar?
    • Yes, I did that, and it worked! (Great! Well Done!)
    • No, I still cannot get logged in. One of three things happened at this point, your account has become disabled, you do not have an account in Activity Insight, or the system is down (see step 4). Please, email the AI-Support@psu.edu and our support team will assist you.
  4. Can you wait an hour and try it again? If it is a system outage the system is usually back up within an hour, if it is still down, please contact your Activity Insight Administrator or email the AI-Support@psu.edu and our support team will assist you.

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Where does my Narrative Statement come from?

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There are 4 Narrative Statement screens available University wide and they are designed to go to specific reports.

  • Narrative Statement for Annual Review – to be used to create “Annual Review” report
  • Narrative Statement for Non Tenure Line Faculty Promotion Review – to be used to create the “Non Tenure Line Faculty Promotion Dossier” report
  • Narrative Statement for P&T Review – to be used to create the “University Dossier” report
  • Narrative Statement for Post-Tenure Review – to be used to create the Post Tenure report with the University Dossier.

If your college has other Narrative Statement screens, please check with your Activity Insight Administrator for more information.

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Mentoring a colleague

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Where would you suggest a faculty member inter in their AI record where they mentored a colleague? This should be entered under “Internal to PSU” or “External to PSU”.

Be sure to identify the Area of Service and Service Type, if one of the options do not fit what you are looking for choose “Other” and fill out the Explanation of “Other” field.

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Supervised Student Authors

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I supervised a student who was an author on my publication, how do I identify them in Activity Insight for my reports to appear correctly?

On the Publications screen, under Authors, the candidate should select “Supervised Student Author” from the “Role” field and select “Graduate Student”, “Postdoctoral”, or “Undergraduate Student” from the “Author Status” field.  When the report is generated the student will appear like so: N. M. Gampe (Supervised Student Author – Graduate Student).

If you do not select an “Author Status” the student will appear like so: N. M. Gampe (Supervised Student Author).

The candidate should select one “Role” for them self, if applicable, Author, Co-Author, Co-Editor, Contributor to Edited Volume, Editor, Primary Author, Secondary Author or Translator. And they should enter the % Contribution (note: the % Contribution only appears for the Candidate, it does not appear for the other Authors).

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Locked Contract Grants

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How do I update the locked Contracts, Grants, Fellowships, and/or Sponsored Research records in Activity Insight?

We import this data every Monday. To keep the University data accurate across the record is locked on import. Please go to MyResearch Portal, SIMS, or contact your Research Administrator if the record needs to be corrected.

If the record is Pending you can change it to Not Funded in the MyResearch Portal. If the record is Pending and it has been Awarded you must contact your Research Administrator.

Links:
MyResearch Portal
Research Administrators

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AI Access Permission Form

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Updated 10-31-2024:  We now have 2 different proxy request forms, one for access to an individual faculty member and one for access to an interdisciplinary unit or institute.

This form will give proxy access to one faculty member: Individual Proxy Request Form.

This form will give proxy access to all faculty assigned to a specific Campus, College, School, Division, Department, or Institute: Unit Proxy Request Form.

FYI – Depending on the unit we may need individual forms, however, we will let you know if that is required.

Once you fill out the form email the completed form to activityinsight@psu.edu and a member of our team will respond within 24 hours, Monday through Friday 8:30am to 4:30pm.

 

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Should my Administrative Assignments appear in the University Dossier?

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Data from the Administrative Assignments screen in Activity Insight DOES appear in the University Dossier.

As of July 2017, per Blannie Bowen, Vice Provost of Academic Affairs, the data in the Administrative Assignments screen will now appear in the University Dossier. Specifically, this will appear as the first bullet under the Service to the University section.

If you have any further questions, please, contact the AI Support Team. AI-Support@psu.edu

Why am I missing the % Responsibility Data for my Courses Taught entries?

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Note: This FAQ is for Staff members that are setting up the course(s) in LionPATH, Faculty do not have the ability to make this correction.

The “% Responsibility” data listed in Activity Insight comes from the ‘Load Factor’ field in LionPATH.  If ‘Load Factor’ is not completed correctly, or at all, in LionPATH then the % Responsibility data will not appear in Activity Insight.

QUESTION: Where do I find the ‘Load Factor’ field in LionPATH?

ANSWER: Go to ‘Meetings’ (second tab on the top). Scroll down to ‘Meeting Pattern.’ Underneath ‘Meeting Pattern’ is a section called ‘Instructors for Meeting Pattern’ (see Image 1 below).

Image 1: (click on image to make it bigger)

The ‘Instructors for Meeting Pattern’ section has two tabs.

Assignment: The first tab, ‘Assignment,’ is where you enter the name of the instructor(s) and teaching assistant(s) for the course. Each section must have at least ONE PRIMARY INSTRUCTOR assigned with ‘Post Access’ to grades.

Workload: After you enter the Primary Instructor on the Assignment tab click on the second tab called ‘Workload’ (see Image 2 below) and enter the ‘Load Factor’ for each Instructor(s) in the ‘Load Factor’ field. Note that the TOTAL of all instructors must equal 100.00. If a single instructor exists, enter 100.00. If multiple instructors exist, be sure to break out the total as appropriate across all the instructors so that the total of all instructors equals 100.00.

Image 2: (click on image to make it bigger)

For more information visit the LionPATH Online Library Tutorials:  https://tutorials.lionpath.psu.edu/Publishing%20Content/PlayerPackage/data/toc.html

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