You need to have the “Development Area” completed before it will appear in your reports.

Why did we do this? Faculty and administration requested that the professional development for teaching appeared in the teaching section and their professional development for research appeared in the research section. The only way we could make that happen was by making Development Area a required field.

Side note: I would like to remind you, when pulling your University Dossier for P&T or your Non-Tenure Track Faculty Promotion Dossier Teaching and Service only pulls data that falls in the start and end date of your report run dates. So if you run your report for 2018 to 2022 only the records with a year of 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 will pull into your report. For annual reviews, it will only pull records with that year in all sections (if your college has added that screen to their reports).

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

How do I enter my publication if it was published on line first?

If the publication is currently only published online: Enter the date that the publication appeared online under ‘Date Published or Date to be Published if “In Press”’ and note that this is an online publication in the ‘Comments’ field. Any other details about the publication can also be entered in the ‘Comments’ field at your discretion.

If the publication will subsequently be printed in hard copy:Once it is printed in hard copy, change the publication date under ‘Date Published or Date to be Published if “In Press”’ to the hard copy print date and adjust the reference to the online publication in the ‘Comments’ field (i.e. change to ‘Appeared as an online publication on insert date ahead of print publication.’).

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.

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.

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).