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
Artistic Direction
- Conducting, coaching, choreographing, 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 relating to conferences, such as published proceedings, conference papers, and conference posters
Creative Work
- 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
Dataset
- Collections of data
Digital Scholarship
- 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 exhibitions including Solo, 2 Person, Curated, 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
Journal Article
- Articles, Letters, Reviews, and Editorials
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
- Conference Papers, Critiques, Lectures, Workshops, and Demonstrations
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
Theatre
- 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
Grant
- IU-internal and external grants are recorded using this activity
- Contains data fed in from Kuali Coeus Grants records
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
Prize
- All types of academic prizes
Service & Leadership
Board Membership
- This activity captures membership on an organization’s board.
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.
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 Taught
- This activity captures courses for which you are designated 'instructor of record'.
- Contains data fed in from SIS
Course Developed
- This activity records new course development and major course revisions.
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.
Mentoring
- This activity captures mentoring activities, like mentoring junior-level colleagues, including those external to the institution.
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.