In Elements, professional activities are divided into four main categories: Scholarly & Creative Works, Grants & Contracts, Service & Leadership, and Teaching Activities.
The list below includes all activities in each category and an explanation or examples of each activity.
Scholarly & Creative Works
Article
- Journal Articles, Letters, Reviews, and Editorials
Artistic Direction
- Conducting, coaching, choreographing, critiques, tour and stage management, and other such artistic direction
Book
- Books of all types, including edited books, fiction, poetry, scripts, and textbooks
Case Study
- In-depth, detailed examination of specific case, usually in a real-world scenario
Chapter
- Individual book chapters
Collection
- Private and public art collections
Conference Works
- Works relating to conferences, such as published proceedings, conference papers, presentations and posters
Creative Work
- A broad range of creative writing activities, such as ceramics, furniture design, painting, sculpture, print making, digital design, and more
Creative Writing
- A broad range of creative activities including speeches, short stories, essays, comics, and more
Curation
- Work involved in the process of selecting, organizing, and tending to the items in a collection or exhibition, including curation catalogues, consultation, catalogue essays, and more
Dataset
- Collections of data
Digital Scholarship
- Works that use digital content and tools to pursue research and interpretation with the goal of furthering knowledge such as Curation, Data visualizations, Databases, Digital Artifacts, Digital Media, Blogs, Oral Histories, and Digital Humanities
Encyclopedia Entry
- Published entries in encyclopedias, generally with detailed, expert knowledge
Exhibition
- All types of exhibition works including Solo, 2 Person and Group, as well as Installations, Screenings, and Exhibition Catalogs
Festival/Event
- Festivals and events such as art festivals and fairs, theatre festivals, film festivals, and more
Intellectual Property
- Patents, Copyrights, Commercial Adoptions of Work, Disclosures, Licenses, Royalties, Trade Secrets, and Trademarks
Media Contribution
- Any scholarly or creative contribution made to print, broadcast, or digital media
Music Composition
- All types of musical compositions including major works
Performance
- All types of performances including Dance, Music, Theatre, Reading, and Performance Art
Presentation
- All types of presentations including Critiques, Demonstrations, Invited and Keynote Speakers, Lectures, Workshops, Panel Moderators and Participants, and Workshops
Recording
- Audio and video recordings
Report
- All types of reports including research and technical reports, working papers, white papers, and more
Software/Code
- Works such as software, extensive sets of coding, databases, and indexes
- Theater Design, Preparation, Tour Coordination, and Engineering and Technology
Thesis/Dissertation
- Works such as PhD Theses, Master’s Theses, or other dissertations
Work in Progress
- Scholarly and creative works that are in progress can be saved initially in this activity type, then moved to a more descriptive activity as they progress.
Other
- All other types of scholarly and creative work that is not represented in the above activities can be entered here.
Grants & Contracts
Arts Residency
- Arts residencies, arts & humanities residencies, and artist in residence
Commercialization
- Any commercialization of one’s work
Consulting
- All types of consulting work such as strategy, career, sustainability, operations, and more
Contract
- Any type of relevant contract
Fellowship
- All types of fellowships, internal and external to IU
Grant
- IU-internal and external grants are recorded using this activity
- Contains data fed in from Kuali Coeus Grants records
Prize
- All types of academic prizes
Travel Grant
- Grants specifically awarded to cover expenses related to travel
Service & Leadership
Advising
- This activity captures advising work such as Academic Advising or Faculty Advising for a Student Organization.Board Membership
Clinical Service
- This activity captures service to patients, indicating position, clinical venue and inclusive dates.
Committee Membership
- This activity captures committee membership and service.
- Positions in UFC, IFC, BFC, RFC and similar faculty governance roles should be listed under Leadership.
Community Service
- Volunteer work within one’s local community to help advance the wellbeing and success of the community or its members.
Editorship
- Work as editor-in-chief, managing editor, co-editor, or copy editor in the production of scholarly journals.
Event Administration
- Preparing, planning, and hosting conferences for large groups of attendees.
Event Participation
- Helping to complete the work of an event or conference, including judging presentations, chairing break-out sessions, etc.
Expert Witness
- This activity captures service in the form of providing expert witness or testimony, including legislative testimony, jurisprudential testimony, etc.
Honor/Award
- This activity captures awards and honors across all areas for faculty and students under their direct supervision.
Interview
- This activity captures any media appearances (e.g., news outlets) and/or interviews where you were invited to share your professional expertise.
IUHP Service
- This screen captures activities in service to patients for IU Health Physician (IUHP) Providers and includes a snapshot of Net Promoter Score and wRVU data for IU Health Physician (IUHP) Providers. Data displayed prior to February 15 of any given year reflects data collected from January - July of the previous year. Data displayed after February 15 of any given year reflects data collected from January - December of the previous year.
- Up-to-the-minute data for NPS and wRVU can be found at http://iuhanalytics-shared.iuhealth.org. In order to access this site, you must either be directly connected to IUH network or connected by the VPN and log in with your IUH network ID.
Leadership
- This activity captures leadership positions held in faculty governance or professional organizations.
Librarianship
- This screen is used to capture performance contributions of librarians.
Litigation
- This activity captures legal service in the form of litigation including amicus brief joinders and leadership, test-case and other litigation.
Professional Development
- This activity captures the process of improving and increasing your capabilities through education, training, and/or other forms of professional learning.
Professional Membership
- This activity captures memberships within professional organizations, associations, and societies.
Professional/Academic Review
- This activity captures service such as book, conference, grant, or institutional reviews as well as peer reviews of teaching and P&T external reviews.
Other
- All other types of service and leadership that is not represented in the above activities can be entered here.
Teaching Activities
Course Developed
- This activity records new course development and major course revisions.
Course Taught
- This activity captures courses for which you are designated 'instructor of record'.
- Contains data fed in from SIS
Curriculum Development
- This activity records new curriculum development and major curriculum revisions.
Directed Learning
- This activity captures involvement in dissertations, theses, independent studies and post-doctoral direction and related activities.
Instructional Material
- This activity captures instructional materials faculty have developed or published.
Non-Credit Instruction
- This activity captures teaching activities in non-credit contexts, including extracurricular (e.g., life-long learning) instruction, micro-credential instruction, etc.
Continuing Medical Education
- This activity captures instruction delivered to colleagues and other healthcare/research professionals as continuing medical education or as part of a formal professional curriculum.
Graduate Medical Education
- This activity captures instruction delivered to residents and fellows at IU and previous academic Institutions as part of their formal postgraduate education.
- GME lectures delivered to outside audiences (not your regular residents and fellows) during your time at IU should be entered on the Presentations screen.
Medical Student Education
- This activity captures courses for which you are designated course director
- Contains data fed in from MSAS/MedHub.