Sedona Faculty Activity Database

Overview

SEDONA is a self-service web database application that allows faculty members to maintain their teaching, research, service, experience, professional development, and assessment records, and administrators to draw upon the information for accreditation and evaluation reports. The database was created by an accounting professor from the University of Tennessee, Dr. Jon Woodruff.

 

Samford University adopted Sedona in spring 2010. During the subsequent summer, staff in the Provost, and Associate Provost's office entered all full- and part-time faculty names into the Sedona database. The University Library added to the database by providing a list of publications for each discipline. Subsequent data will need to be added by each individual faculty member.

 

Instructional Sessions

To facilitate faculty's use of the database, a number of instructional sessions were offered this fall. These included (as of 11/24/10) the following:

 

  • August 25, 2010 10:30 - 11:00 a.m. (A&S Faculty only)
  • August 25, 2010 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. (Nursing Faculty only)
  • August 26, 2010 2:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Pharmacy Faculty only)
  • September 15, 2010 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (Propst Hall Computer Lab)
  • September 16, 2010 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. (DBH 423 Computer Lab)
  • November 2, 2010 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. (The Arts Faculty only)

Departments and/or schools wanting additional instructional sessions should contact the Office of Associate Provost (726-4495).

 

A session for academic administrators to explore the administrative capabilities of S edona as held on March 27.

 

Sedona Access

To access Sedona, open your browser and go to www.sedonaweb.com. You will log onto Sedona using your "Member ID and Password." This information will be provided to you by your respective school dean. You will log onto the member level of Sedona.

 

Data Review and Entry

 

One of the first sections of the Sedona template you should review is the "CV" section. To review this report, click on "CV." To edit the information, click on the pencil-and-notepad icon beside an item in the CV. To review and edit information on your earned degrees, ethnicity, gender, email address, etc., click on "Profile." To add any items to the vita such as published articles, conference proceedings, grants, service activities, etc., select the appropriate section from "Research." You can copy and paste information such as publication and presentation titles, from other sources into any of the data fields provided by Sedona. Please note that you can save the CV as either a Word document or PDF file by selecting the appropriate button in the upper right corner of the screen.

 

For assistance in the data review and entry process, Sedona provides tutorials. If you click on "Overview", you will access a tutorial showing you the methods for inputting data for each screen, and how that data impacts the faculty CV. All the reports are dynamically linked to a foundational database. Modifications in the database subsequently update the respective reports.

 

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