Symplectic Elements is a faculty activity reporting system from Digital Science. It is replacing the Watermark DMAI product in the Fall of 2024.
After careful consideration and evaluation, a task force, comprised of nine faculty and nine staff members, made the recommendation to transition from our DMAI application to Symplectic Elements for our Faculty Activity Reporting needs. This recommendation was based on input from faculty across the organization on the needs and opportunities to better support your work.
The transition to Elements is aimed at addressing current issues with data entry and reporting, enhancing user experience, improving efficiency, and providing you with better tools to manage and report your academic activities. Elements offers several advanced features that will streamline the reporting process and provide more comprehensive insights into your scholarly endeavors.
We expect Elements to be functional by the end of the 2024 calendar year to support the Faculty Annual Review process.
Yes! We will be offering a variety of in-person and virtual training options. We are excited to share more information regarding training and resources as we approach the full release of Elements in late 2024.
Yes, this will be configured and available in the Elements reporting framework.
Yes! This system will be available for faculty to access and add activities year-round.
Elements does not have the same attachment functionality as the former DMAI system. Rather than attach documents to an individual activity, files can be attached as part of the Annual Report workflow.
We anticipate the attachment component of the workflow process being available when the Annual Report workflow is broadly available for the 2025 cycle.
Yes! View the Elements demo. (https://youtu.be/aca0GSxfbDw?si=zA3lceYJtfW7tDPX)
Transition from DMAI
All data entered into DMAI prior to it’s retirement on Augst 1st, 2024 will be transitioned into Elements as part of it’s implementation.
We will not be able to move the attachments over as Elements does not support that on the activity screens.
A quick way to download any DMAI attachments is to run the “Supplemental Comments/Attachments Report” and specify the date range. It will then produce a report with URL/Links for faculty to download all of their attachments from that date range.
The last day to enter data into DMAI is July 31, 2024. As of August 1st, 2024, DMAI will transition to a read-only state, allowing users to download reports but not enter additional data.
This transition to read-only will allow the transition team to archive and import the prior DMAI data into Elements.
The last day to download DMAI reports and data will be October 31st, 2024. Beginning November 1st, 2024 DMAI will no longer be accessible.
You are encouraged to download a historical copy of your all your DMAI data activities for your records. You can do so using the “Rapid Reports” link available in DMAI and running the “*Annual/Multi-Year Report” with appropriate Start and End Date parameters to download a record of all your DMAI activities data.