Submitting Faculty Activity Reports

Overview

To submit your Faculty Activity Reports (FARs), Plans of Work (POW) and Impact Statements, there are 3 basic steps:

1.       Create a folder on your hard drive to hold the files. This is important because you cannot edit, delete or rename the files once they have been submitted, so you’ll want to work on them on your own hard drive.

2.       Save your documents in Microsoft Word 97 or WordPerfect 7.0 format, or below, in your file folder. Follow the naming convention, using the last name of the faculty member, an underscore, and the first name, and underscore, and either FAR or IP.

3.       Copy your files to the CALS2 server, into your department’s 2002 folder. To do so, you’ll select all of the files in your FAR directory, select Copy. Then you double-click the “Faculty Activity Reports” icon in the Novell Application Launcher, open the 2002 folder, and select Paste.

 

 

Detailed Instructions using Microsoft Word 97

 

STEP 1 – Create a folder on your hard drive to hold the FARs.

 

1.      
Double click on the My Computer icon on your desktop. 

2.       A dialog box appears showing your local and network drives. Double click on your first hard drive (C:).

 

 

 

 

3. Click on the File menu option, then click on New and select Folder.

 

4.       A “New Folder” icon appears.

 

 

 

 

Type in the folder name “FAR” and press Enter.

 

 

 

 

STEP 2 -. Save your documents in Microsoft Word 97 or WordPerfect 7.0 format, or below, to the FAR directory.

 

1.       In your word processing program (the example below uses Word 97), click on the File menu and select Save As…

 

2.       A dialog box appears. Select the C:\FAR directory.

 

 

3.       Type a File name in the box.  The file should be named with the last name of the faculty member, an underscore, and the first name, and the extension doc.  For example, for Dr. John Smith, the filename would be: Smith_John_FAR.doc

 

4.       Check the  Save as type field. It should say “Word Document (*.doc)”.

 

STEP 3: Copy your files to the CALS2 server, into your department’s 2002 folder

 

Note that you cannot modify, rename, or edit the files in your department’s 2002 folder once you have copied them into it.

 

1.       Double-click on My Computer.

 

2.       Double-click on the C: drive (the same as in STEP 1 above).

 

3.       Double-click on the FAR folder .  Select all the files in the FAR folder by going to the Edit menu option and choosing Select All.  All files in the folder will be highlighted.

 

 

 

4.       From the Edit menu, choose Copy. 

 

 

 

5.    From the Novell Application Launcher (NAL) window, double-click on the Faculty Activity Reports icon.  (If you find and click the Faculty Activity Reports folder on the left side of the NAL window, the icon will appear on the right side of the window.)

 

 

 

6.       Your department’s Faculty folder will open in a new window. Double-click on the folder with the year for which you are submitting Faculty Activity Reports (the 2002 folder).

 
 

 

7.        From the Edit menu, select Paste. All of the files you had previously selected to copy (#4 above) will appear in the folder.  Your Faculty Activity Reports have been submitted.