This article provides a detailed overview of how to leverage faculty and staff profiles, learn about all the things you can manage for your Faculty and Staff via Exxat Prism.

1. Accessing Faculty & Staff Profiles
2. Profile Information and Editing
3. Generating CVs
4. View As for Faculty
5. Contact Sharing
6. Deleting Faculty
7. Teaching Expertise
8. Scholarly Activities
9. Service
10. Managing Faculty Associations
11. Delete Faculty/Staff Report
12. Report
13. Send Bulk Emails
14. Check Email History

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Once your faculty and staff begin adding information to their profiles, you can view, edit, and share certain information with important stakeholders!

Accessing Faculty and Staff Profile

1. Login to Exxat Prism using your university credentials. 
2. Navigate to the Faculty and Staff section from the Exxat Prism dashboard or the hamburger menu.
   
    
3. Each faculty & staff member will have a profile of their own where they can add additional information. To view and edit this information, click on the user’s name. 
   
4. The Action column has been removed from the Faculty and Staff grid, and the "Faculty/Staff" selection radio button has been moved to the Basic Information section within the faculty profile. 
5. The faculty & staff profile will contain the following sections:
   1. Profile
   2. Teaching
   3. Scholarship
   4. Service
   5. Associations

Profile

1. View the profile information for your Faculty and Staff

   

Generate CV

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   1. To download a copy of a faculty’s CV, click Generate CV. A Word document will be downloaded to your system.
      
       
   2. Faculty and staff CV’s will include any information they have added to their profile, along with any courses they have been assigned in the system.
      
       

View As

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   1. To see what Faculty members will see on their end you can click on "View As" button. Note you would not be able to edit any of the information. 
      

Contact Sharing

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   1. To share their contact information with students and sites via the site resources page, click Contact Sharing.
      
       
   2. A drawer will open. Three separate sections will load, where you can decide if you would like to share faculty and staff contact information with different stakeholders. Select your preferences and click Save once done.
      1. Students:
         
          
      2. Other faculty and staff:
         
          
      3. Sites via the site resources page:
         

Deleting Faculty

To Delete a faculty, perform the following steps:

1. Click Delete Faculty.Note: If the faculty is associated to students, courses, and placements, then a message is displayed to remove the faculty from the association. 
2. Click Confirm in the message box to delete the faculty.

Teaching

1. The teaching section will show you information about your faculty’s teaching expertise.
   
    
2. Each academic appointment within a faculty’s profile section will create a section within the Teaching Details section.
   
    

Scholarship

1. Within the Scholarship section, you can view scholarly activities faculty have participated in throughout their career including publications, presentations, grant-funded research, and more.
   

Service

1. Any service faculty provide to their academic institution, profession, or community along with membership details will be located within the Service section.
   

Managing Faculty Associations 

Before faculty and staff can interact with associated students, courses, and placements, they must first be assigned to them! 

You can associate and disassociate faculty at Course, Student, and Placement  levels. 

• At the Course Level
  • Associate Faculty from a Course
  • Disassociate Faculty from a Course
• At the Student Level
  • Associate Faculty from Students
  • Disassociate Faculty from Students
• At the Placement level

Once the association is made, the faculty would be able to access different information in the different areas from Faculty Dashboard. 

1. Login to Exxat Prism using your university credentials. 
2. Navigate to the Faculty and Staff section from the Exxat Prism dashboard or the hamburger menu.
   
3. Click the faculty or staff name from the list.
   
4. In the Left-menu go to the Associations menu and  click to expand. You will see the faculty associations for Course, Students , and Placements. 
   

Associate or Disassociate Faculty at the Course Level:

Associating faculty with Courses will allow them to edit specific course information, measures, resources, attributes, event schedule, announcements, set-up/review of all learning activities tied to that course and more. These faculty can view placements, but cannot edit placements. This association is recommended for Course Directors/Leads, Adjunct faculty, etc.

1. In the left-menu, go to Association and select Courses.
   The page will show you all of the courses your faculty has already been assigned to. 
2. In the top-right of the grid, Click Manage Association  button.
3. In the Manage Associations drawer , use the filters to get a list of courses in the curriculum. 
   
4. Select the course offerings to associate or disassociate the course to the faculty, and click Next.
   
5. You can Assign the same faculty role for all the courses or assign different faculty role for different courses. 
   • To Assign the same faculty role 
     1. Toggle ON " Assign the same role for each course offering"
     2. Select the faculty role from the drop-down. 
        
   • To Assign different Faculty roles
     1. Select the role from Assign Role drop-down for each course. 
        

6. Click Save 
   

   Course Association for the faculty are successfully updated. 
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Associating Faculty Advisor at the Student Level

When associating Faculty at the Student Level, the faculty will be able to view all aspects of that student’s profile including Academics, Profile, Compliance, Communications, Interventions, Coursework and Learning Activities. This role is recommended for faculty advisors.

The Compliance tab in the  students profile is configurable, allowing admins to choose whether they want their advisors to access student compliance status by enabling or disabling it. 

Associate Faculty from Students:

1. To associate faculty with students, select students from the left panel.
   
2. The page will show you all of the students your faculty has already been assigned to. Click + Assign Student.
   
3. A drawer will open. Use the fields available on the left to find the desired students and click Search Record.
   
4. Once the students load, select them using the open checkbox and click Next.
   
5. You will then assign them a role for each student you selected. Once done, click Associate.
   

Disassociate Faculty from Students

1.  To disassociate the faculty from the student, click on the disassociate under the action column.

Associating Faculty Advisor at the Placement Level

Associating faculty with Placements will allow them to view some of student’s placement information and review learning activities for specific students they oversee for specific placements.

Associate Faculty from Placements:

1. To view faculty placement associations, click Placements from the left panel.
   
2. The page will show you all of the placements your faculty has already been assigned to.
   
3. To associate faculty with placements, this can be done by going to Placements > Select a Course (or Placement Group > Select Placements for Group) > and when assigning a placement to a student, check off the box next to their name as Placement Faculty.
   

Deleted Faculty/Staff Report

To access the report of deleted faculty members from the system, click on the "Report" section.



 

1. Navigate to the "Report" tab in the Faculty module, locate the "Deleted Faculty/Staff Report," and you can also extract it from the system.

Report

To access a report on all Faculty Information 

1. Select the Faculty and Staff section
2. Click on Reports
3. Click on the Faculty Information report
   

Send Bulk Emails

You can send bulk emails to students directly from Exxat Prism and streamline communications with students. 

1. From Exxat Prism dashboard go to Faculty and Staff section. 
   
2. Select the faculty or staff you wish to send the email to and click Bulk Email and select Compose Email.
   
3. In Compose Email drawer, check the recipients of the email, upload files if any , and click Next.
   
4. Draft your email and then click preview. 
   
   
   You can also choose a predefined template for the email. Toggle off the Continue without picking a template button.
   
5. Verify the email drafted and click Send. 
   

Email will be sent to all the selected students. 

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Check Email History

You can check emails sent to the students directly from Exxat Prism.

1. From Exxat Prism dashboard go to Faculty and Staff section. 
   
2. Select the faculty you wish to check the emails sent and click Bulk Email and select Email History.
   
3. In the Email History drawer you can see the list of all the emails sent.
   1. You can set a date range
   2. Check the status of the email
   3. Click on the SUBJECT to read email message. 

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