By providing you with a central hub for managing faculty reviews and collecting, storing, and categorizing data, Symplectic Elements can help you streamline your faculty activity reporting processes.
Smarter faculty review management
Faculty Annual Reviews are a vital tool for both academic institutions and faculty members. Not only do they play a critical role in driving the professional advancement of staff and an opportunity for recognition of good work, they’re also fundamental to tracking and providing evidence of the high quality of teaching and research across your research community.
By providing a central hub for research information and faculty activity data, with automated ingestion from the widest range of data sources in the industry, Symplectic Elements can streamline your annual review, assessment and reporting processes and minimize the burden placed on faculty members.
Curate all of your faculty CV data in one place
Symplectic Elements allows faculty members to curate all of the information needed to populate Faculty CVs, including biographical information as well their outputs and activities, such as:
- Publications and other scholarly or creative works
- Grants, fellowships, and contracts
- Professional and service activities
- Teaching activities, courses and supervisions
Did you know?
Faculty members can generate CVs and biosketches directly from their Symplectic Elements profile.
Minimize the burden on faculty members
Symplectic Elements supports a variety of data entry options. Information can be reused from trusted external sources or imported from existing institutional systems through our API and specialist importer tools.
By maximizing data reuse, Symplectic Elements minimizes the time that faculty members spend completing annual reviews by letting them easily reuse data already in the system.
AI-assisted data entry helps streamline manual entry by extracting key metadata from plain text, reducing manual work and helping ensure faculty profiles remain complete.
“We wanted to reduce as much manual work as possible for our researchers and reach a high data quality, so we have about seven different integrations with KI systems feeding data automatically into Elements. Researchers can manually add what they want for their CVs, and the data is visible to internal and external users within an hour.”
Securely manage faculty submissions and reviews
Symplectic Elements can be configured to support a wide range of reporting activities – including annual faculty review processes and accreditation reports.
Our versatile permissions settings make it easy to configure which faculty members, reviewers and managers have access to data collected at each stage throughout review processes, while dashboards make it easy for administrators to monitor faculty progress throughout the review process.
Configurable assessment workflows
Design flexible, end-to-end review workflows for anything from faculty annual reviews to internal approvals and formal research assessments like the REF.
Build the process you need: researchers can submit selected outputs with context, reviewers can score and comment, and managers can refine and finalize submissions. Whether it’s a simple one-step form or a multi-stage review, workflows are fully configurable to your needs.
Use it for publication approvals, promotion rounds, peer review, conference requests, and more.
“The University measures the individual research activity of academic staff. This Measure of Research Activity (MoRA) requires the collection of publication data from faculty. Symplectic Elements supports this beautifully.”
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