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How to Use Dossier for Evaluations
Updated onArticleAs CSUF faculty, you get access to 2 interfolio products:
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Review, Promotion, and Tenure = platform where you upload and submit documents for your required evaluations
- When you log into Interfolio through the CSUF Portal it is the option button with the CSUF logo
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Dossier = this is a digital safe where you can upload and organize documents for upcoming reviews
- Dossier is also where your uploaded documents live after you have submitted your review packets through the Review, Promotion, and Tenure platform
- When you log into Interfolio through the CSUF Portal it is the option button with the word "dossier' on it
Interfolio Tutorial Guides / RTP Evaluation Faculty Guide / Interfolio's Dossier
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Review, Promotion, and Tenure = platform where you upload and submit documents for your required evaluations
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Participating in the Evaluation Rebuttal Period
Updated onChecklistThroughout the Evaluation Process, your review committees will share copies of their Evaluation and Recommendation Statements based on their assessment of your submitted materials.
As of the 2020-2021 academic year, this process of your review committees sharing material and you, the faculty member responding, is conducted entirely through the Interfolio Retention, Promotion, and Tenure platform (Interfolio for short).
As a CSUF faculty member you have the right to submit a written rebuttal statement to and/or request a meeting to regarding these statements using the form provided by the FAR office.
- The written rebuttal statement should ALWAYS be addressed to the next review committee that will receive your materials
- It should be professional and cordial
- You are given 10 calendar days, after the receipt of copies of the performance evaluation statements, to submit your rebuttal if you choose
Interfolio Tutorial Guides / RTP Evaluation Faculty Guide / Rebuttal Period (Full Performance Reviews ONLY)
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Submitting your completed Interfolio Review Packet
Updated onArticleAfter uploading the appropriate volume to all required review packet sections it is time to submit your review packet and begin the evaluation process.
As the faculty member under review, you are required to submit ALL sections of your review packet even if you have not uploaded any documentation to a certain section.
All review packet sections must be submitted by the annual submission deadline. The due date for your review packet will either be on or around September 15th (first full performance evaluation) or on or around October 1st (all subsequent RTP evaluations), but you can always reference the following places to find your submission deadline.
- The instructions within your review packet
- The Tenure-track (Probationary) Faculty or Tenured Faculty (Promotion) pages of the FAR website
There are three methods available to submit your review packet, choose the one that best fits your preferences.
- Submitting one section at time
- Submitting groups of sections at a time
- Submitting all sections at once
Once any or all review packet sections have been submitted by the faculty member under review, the sections become locked. The faculty member is unable to add or edit documentation within the submitted section(s).
Interfolio Tutorial Guides / RTP Evaluation Faculty Guide / Submitting your Interfolio Review Packet for Evaluation
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Changing Order of Uploaded Documents
Updated onArticleOne of the quirks of the Interfolio platform where faculty members upload their documents for evaluations is that the files are uploaded to the platform by File Size NOT File Name. Often times resulting in documents that are out of the order desired by the faculty member.
Which is why it is recommended that faculty members upload documents in small batches, when more than one document is required in an any given review packet section. Smaller batches makes it easier to rearrange document order so that it reflects what is listed on your Table of Contents.
Documents uploaded by the faculty member to an active review packet can be rearranged one of two ways, either individually or in groups.
Interfolio Tutorial Guides / RTP Evaluation Faculty Guide / Rearranging Document Order in Interfolio
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Repeat Users: Adding Material to a New Review Packet
Updated onArticleAs a repeat Interfolio user, in addition to the methods for uploading documentation to review packets that new users have, Interfolio provides you with several more tools to accelerate uploading your required evaluation materials.
In Interfolio these tools are listed as:
Packets in particular is useful to repeat Interfolio users because it allows you to pull materials that you have already submitted in previous evaluations into a new review packet.
Interfolio Tutorial Guides / RTP Evaluation Faculty Guide / Adding Material to a Review Packet
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New Users: Adding Material to a Review Packet
Updated onArticleAfter you open your assigned review packet from either the "Home" or "Your Packets" screen in Interfolio it will default into "Overview Mode".
There are several functions available while in "Overview Mode", which might be helpful when you are starting a new review, such as:
- The ability to View the Packet Instructions
- The ability to Preview the packet before submission
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*Most Importantly, the ability to put your packet in "Edit" mode to start adding materials
- This can be done by clicking either "packet" or "edit"
Interfolio Tutorial Guides / RTP Evaluation Faculty Guide / Adding Material to a Review Packet
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Locating Your Interfolio Review Packet
Updated onArticleAfter Logging into Interfolio following one of the three options outlined in the Log-in tutorial, CSUF faculty undergoing review, by default, will be redirected to the "Home" page of their Interfolio User Profile. This screen is one of two ways that you can located and open your assigned review packets. The other option Adding Material to a Review Packet to locate and open your review packets is on the "Your packets" screen.
Interfolio Tutorial Guides / RTP Evaluation Faculty Guide / Finding Your Assigned Interfolio Review Packet
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Log In Options
Updated onArticleTo Log in to Interfolio as a CSUF faculty member there are 3 options to choose from to initiate the process. Select whichever one is best suited for your preferences.
All three options will eventually get you to the exact same place, the Login page for the Interfolio Platform, from there the process for logging in is universal regardless of which option you started with.
Interfolio Tutorial Guides / RTP Evaluation Faculty Guide / Logging into Interfolio
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Background Information
Updated onArticleAny employee classified as a "Tenure-track" or "Probationary" faculty, or "Tenured" faculty under the Collective Bargaining Unit 3 is required to be periodically evaluated according to the criteria laid out in UPS 210.000 and UPS 210.002. "Tenure-Track" or "Probationary" faculty are classified as Full-time and are initially hired under a 2-year contract, which is renewed on an annual basis pending a satisfactory review. Tenured faculty are faculty who have successfully finished their probationary period and are awarded tenure by the University. Tenured faculty undergo an RTP review when and if they decided to apply for promotion to Full Professor.
Tenure-track or Probationary, and Tenured faculty are contractually guaranteed work for one of the following time periods:
- an academic year
- a full 12-month calendar year
Librarian and Counselor (CAPS) Faculty are contractually guaranteed work for one of the following time periods:
- a 10-month "academic year"
- a full 12-month calendar year
Interfolio Tutorial Guides / RTP Evaluation Faculty Guide / Evaluation Process Information
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Tips for Annotating in Interfolio
Updated onArticleFor those of you who like to annotate or make notes on evaluation materials you can do so in Interfolio, while in the assigned case is in"read case" mode.
To initiate this process:
- Login Options
- Find a case assigned to you as a Reviewer/Evaluator
- Open the assigned case by clicking the faculty member's hyperlinked name
Interfolio Tutorial Guides / Lecturer Evaluation Evaluator Guide / Appendix 1: Tips for Annotating in Interfolio