Teaching Activities - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

This article answers some common questions, points to best practice considerations, and provides links to relevant documentation for the Teaching Activities module.

• Teaching Activities module settings

• Managing Types and Underlying Fields

It allows your Academic or Research staff to record Teaching Activity data within Elements to create complete profiles. 

• Ensuring consistent capture of data driven by commonality in researcher profiling systems

• Ensuring enhanced interoperability between systems, driven by demands by grant funding agencies, government bodies, and harvesters of data

Beginning in version 6.0, yes. The other options for naming the Teaching Activities module are 

• Instruction

• Learning & Teaching

• Teaching & Mentoring

• Teaching & Supervision

It reduces the decision making overheads faced by institutions when implementing new systems and changing processes. Elements has 7 default teaching activities which can be re-branded or even hidden to meet your requirements. See the Managing Types and Underlying Fields article for details.

• Course-based degree supervision

• Courses developed

• Courses taught

• Mentoring

• Programs developed

• Research-based degree supervision

Absolutely if your staff who are teaching intensive formally record their teaching contributions, it increase the visibility of their work and assists with compliance for funding and government reporting.

Yes. Navigate to System admin > Data category settings > Manage module access and remove the users or groups as Module Users.

Likely, yes. Please submit a support ticket.

Yes, this can occur as part of your data migration during implementation or custom work that is chargeable.