How to Use Advance Faculty & non-Faculty Academics

1. How to Use Advance Faculty & non-Faculty Academics How to Use AdvanceFaculty & non-Faculty Academics

2. About the training modules • The PowerPoint training modules begin automatically when opened • There is narration, so turn on sound • You can use the arrow keys to move forward or backward if too fast or slow • If you move forward using the arrow keys, you may miss some narrative

3. In this module… • What is Advance? • Navigation • The Overview page • The Salary page • Packet tracking • Help! • Things to consider

4. What is Advance? • The campus system used to record academic appointment and advancement actions (aka “packets”) • Standardizes the packet process • Central repository for academic actions • Campus source for metrics related to appointment and advancement actions

5. Navigation • Each page has some standard features:

6. The Overview page

7. The Salary page

8. Packet tracking

9. Help! • If you can’t get answers from either the Buttons or the Help hyperlink, contact your Academic Personnel Analyst (APA) noted at the bottom of the page. The APA should be able to explain the Academic Appointment and Advancement process to you, as well as resolve Advance system issues.

10. Things to consider • Data in the Advance system was gathered from several sources; you are the best person to validate it • If you find an issue with the data, let your APA know • The title on your Overview page comes from the payroll system • The new rank or step will not be updated in Advance until it has been entered into the payroll system

11. The Faculty module… Congratulations! You have completed the Faculty/Academic module and should now know how to navigate through your Advance pages and what the data means. If you want to learn more about Advance, try one of our other training modules. Send questions or comments to AdvanceProject@ucsf.edu