Institutional Effectiveness

Professional Activity Capture Tool - PACT

The Professional Activity Capture Tool (PACT), provided through Digital Measures, is the faculty activity reporting platform which aggregates all relevant information into one portal, produces reports and faculty rosters, and creates an online faculty directory.

Because we know our faculty are extremely busy, we have invested in a system that eliminates the countless requests for information regarding your teaching, research, and other service activities. By simply entering information into the system once, PACT will store valuable data such as your CV, NIH and NSF biosketches, and documents for promotion and tenure, which will in turn produce ready-made reports for these and many more purposes, thus maximizing its impact. Other practical uses for the system include having: 

  • A searchable community engagement website
  • A searchable portal related to research and creative activity
  • The ability to feed the information to faculty webpage bios directly from PACT
  • Specialized accreditation reports (AACSB, CAEP, etc.)
  • Annual unit and program review reports 

Our administrators can also have an efficient, centralized, and easy-to-navigate source for generating reports for accreditation, institutional research surveys, personnel review procedures, and more. With PACT, administrators are more aware of their users’ activities and better positioned to publicize their accomplishments because of this awareness.

Training videos are located in Box.  We recommend you download them to your computer and watch them rather than try and stream them directly from Box

 

PACT Templates + Forms

 Click here for a list of helpful templates + guides.

Faculty Evaluations

 Click here to visit the Faculty Evaluations page.

PACT Log in

 Click here to login to PACT. 
 Use Chrome or Firefox, not IE Explorer

 

News + Notices:

As of 12/1/2020 - We have completed the Grants Interface with SPA.  There is a now a "Grants managed by SPA" screen which is an automated interfaces, no changes can be made to the information in this screen.  There is also a "Grants not managed by SPA" where you can manually enter any small grants you have received that is not managed by SPA.

As of 1/1/2020 - Digital Measures will no longer support MS Explorer 11.

As of 12/10/2019 - Digital Measures has made some screen updates. The majority of these changes are cosmetic; however, they have added a drag-and-drop feature for files, rich text formatting for text boxes (which will carry through to reports as well), and text wrap for drop down options. These updates get us one step closer to the new CV import capability that the vendor is planning to launch next year!

Common PACT Reports

ANNUAL FACULTY PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

Previously this report was only available at the department level.  As of 9/1/16, faculty members can now run this report for themselves.  Department Chairs (and their proxies) can run it for any or all of the faculty in their departments.  Deans (and their proxies) can run it for particular faculty, departments, or the entire college.

AWARDS AND HONORS

A list of faculty members' awards and honors. Faculty can run this list for themselves. Department Chairs (and their proxies) can run it for any or all of the faculty in their departments. Deans (and their proxies) can run it for particular faculty, departments, or the entire college.

CIP CODE MATCH

INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS BY FACULTY

A list of faculty members' publications. Faculty can run this list for themselves. Department Chairs (and their proxies) can run it for any or all of the faculty in their departments. Deans (and their proxies) can run it for particular faculty, departments, or the entire college.

NIH/NSF BIO-SKETCH

Faculty will need to enter a few key bits of information that are directly related to the grant for which they are applying. After this is done, the report can be run, and it will pull in the remaining information and organize it in the exact format required by NIH or NSF.

PRESENTATIONS BY FACULTY

A list of faculty members' presentations. Faculty can run this list for themselves. Department Chairs (and their proxies) can run it for any or all of the faculty in their departments. Deans (and their proxies) can run it for particular faculty, departments, or the entire college.

PROMOTION AND TENURE REPORT

This is not the full Promotion and Tenure Form; however, it will create the detailed vita in the format required for this process.

PUBLIC SERVICE

A list of public service by faculty members. Faculty can run this list for themselves. Department Chairs (and their proxies) can run it for any or all of the faculty in their departments. Deans (and their proxies) can run it for particular faculty, departments, or the entire college.

TEACHING JUSTIFICATION REPORT

VITA

Faculty members have the ability to run a vita from the system for themselves. Department Chairs (and their proxies) can run it for any or all of the faculty in their departments. Deans (and their proxies) can run it for particular faculty, departments, or the entire college. 

PACT Frequently Asked Questions

While there are several ways to log into the PACT system, you can use this link. Once this link has opened please click on the blue “DIGITAL MEASURES LOGIN” link in the middle of the page. After clicking on the link, please use your JagID and password to access PACT. (This is the same user name and password you use to access other Augusta University’s enterprise systems such as Outlook, Banner, D2L; etc.) 

  • On the top blue banner of the PACT screen click “Run Reports.”
  • From the drop down menu select “Vita” and it will take you to a page entitled “Run Report.”
  • In area #2 select the dates for the CV.
  •  “Start Date” = the date you want your CV data to begin. [Remember the vita you pull from PACT can only go back as far as the data you have put into the system].
  • “End Date” [remember your end date can’t be a future date].
  • In area #3 you should be sure your name is selected in the “Users Selected” field.
  • In area #4 select “Microsoft Word (.doc)” as the File format, and “Letter” as the “Page Size.”
  • Click the “Run Report” button at the top of the Run Report screen. The report usually takes less than 15 seconds to run.
  • Once the report has run, depending on how your computer is set up, you either click the “Open” button or double click on the report icon the was downloaded to your computer. (This usually appears on the bottom of your computer screen.)
  • Click “Enable Editing” at the top of the document page and your draft CV is ready for you to edit and put to use.

The CV Imports feature allows faculty to upload their CVs and use highlighting technology to associate their accomplishments with the right destination sections within Digital Measures. 

The name used as your personal identifier [first and last name] in the Faculty Directory has been imported from the Augusta University Human Resources (HR) system. Based on Federal Rules, an employee record is established within our HR system based on the name that appears on an employee’s Social Security Card. At the current time, you can log into PACT, open your “Personal Contact Information” screen and update your preferred first name. The Faculty Directory is updated nightly from the information that is stored within PACT.  

All faculty can log into PACT, open their “Personal Contact Information” screen, and change their: Preferred First Name; Office phone number; Office Location [building code & number] ex: AD1222; Personal Website address; Brief Biography; Teaching Interests; or Research Interests.

The process to request a new headshot or update your existing photo is outlined by the JagCard office. When having your photo taken, make sure to Identify yourself as a faculty member so that your photo can be shared with the PACT team. If you already have had your headshot taken and have the file, you can send the photo to dmadmin@augusta.edu

As a general rule all faculty profiles in the directory should have a professional photo actively displayed. If for some reason you feel that your photo should not be displayed you may log into PACT, open the “Personal Contact Information” screen and check the box at the BOTTOM of the screen that states “Do not include my photo in the faculty directory.” Each Friday evening the faculty photos are updated within the Faculty Directory. At this time your faculty photo will be removed from the Faculty Directory if the “Do not include my photo” check box is selected within PACT. You should expect someone from the university to follow-up with you about the need to exclude your photo from this directory.

The faculty titles that appear in the Faculty Directory have been imported from the Augusta University Human Resources (HR) system. If you believe there is an error in these records, the Division of Institutional Effectiveness (IE) would like to assist you in getting this information corrected. Please complete the audit form and send it to DMADMIN@augusta.edu. Once your form has been received by IE, it will be forwarded to HR for investigation and correction.

If you believe the user name that makes up the first part of your email address is incorrect, please contact DMADMIN@augusta.edu.

The academic degrees that appear in the faculty directory have been imported from the Augusta University Human Resources (HR) system. If you believe there is an error in these records, the Division of Institutional Effectiveness (IE) would like to assist you in getting this information corrected. Please complete the audit form and send it to DMADMIN@Augusta.edu. Once your form has been received by IE it will be forwarded to HR for investigation and correction.

  • The data used to populate the Awards and Honors section of the Faculty Directory are imported from the faculty member's PACT profile. To change this information: Log into the PACT system, open the “Awards and Honors” screen, and click on the award you wish to edit. You can then change the information stored in your PACT system. Please remember to click Save at the top of the PACT screen once you have made your changes.
  • The faculty directory pulls the 5 most recent awards and honors you have received, but if you wish to control which honors and awards are displayed you can exclude any honor or award from the Faculty Directory by: Log into the PACT system, open the “Awards and Honors” screen, and click on the award you wish to edit. Then click the “Do not publish this to the faculty directory” box at the top of the edit page. By excluding the awards you do not want to show you can control the awards and honors that do get posted to the directory.

The data used to populate the Other Credentials section of the Faculty Directory has been imported from the Augusta University Human Resources (HR) system or self-entered into your PACT profile. To change the self-entered data: Log into the PACT system, open the “Licensures and Certifications” screen, and click on the award you wish to edit. Please remember to click Save at the top of the PACT screen once you have made your changes. You can identify self-entered data by the fact that the box for “This license/certificate has been manually entered by the faculty member” has been checked. If this box is not checked, please fill out this audit form and send it to DMADMIN@augusta.edu. The Division of Institutional Effectiveness will work with Human Resources to correct the information.

  • The data used to populate the Scholarship section of the Faculty Directory are imported from the faculty member’s PACT profile. To change this information: Log into the PACT system, open the “Intellectual Contributions” or “Artistic and Professional Performances and Exhibits” screen, and click on the award you wish to edit. You can then change the information stored in your PACT system. Please remember to click Save at the top of the PACT screen once you have made your changes.
  • The Faculty Directory pulls the 5 most recent scholarly activities listed in the PACT system, but if you wish to control which activities are displayed, you can exclude any publication or performance from the Faculty Directory by: Log into the PACT system, open the “Intellectual Contributions” or “Artistic and Professional Performances and Exhibits” screen, and click on the item you wish to edit. Then click the “Do not publish this to the faculty directory” box at the top of the edit page. By excluding the items you do not want to show, you can control the items that do get posted to the directory.
  • The data used to populate the Service section of the Faculty Directory are imported from the faculty member's PACT profile. To change this information: Log into the PACT system, open the appropriate “Service” screen, and click on the item you wish to edit. You can then change the information stored in your PACT system. Please remember to click Save at the top of the PACT screen once you have made your changes.
  • The Faculty Directory pulls the 5 most recent service activities listed in the PACT system, but if you wish to control which activities are displayed, you can exclude any item from the Faculty Directory by: Log into the PACT system, open the appropriate “Service” screen, and click on the item you wish to edit. Then click the “Do not publish this to the faculty directory” box at the top of the edit page. By excluding the items you do not want to show, you can control the items that do get posted to the directory. Please be sure to click the Save button at the top of the “Service” screen before you exit the PACT "Service" screen.