Scholarly Impact Challenge

Making your profile public still allows you, as the profile owner, to control which information is visible.  Please see below for information on how to use these controls.    

Congratulations!   Now that you have completed each day of the Impact Challenge, you are Done!   

You are encouraged to return regularly to your profile to add / update your information.   

Learn how to Enhance Your Profile, highlight certain activities, or hide certain activities.   Only activities in specific categories will appear in the UICollaboratory, if they are marked as "public" in MyActivities.   Any activity in a category not set to appear in the UICollaboratory, will not appear publicly in the UICollaboratory.    See below for more information.

There may be activities, such as specific publications that you would like to highlight in your public profile (http://uicollaboratory.uic.edu/).   There may also be activities that you do not wish to have appear on your public profile.  You will manage this through MyActivities.

To Highlight your publications as Featured:

• Click on the link to your list of publications.   
• Click the Heart that is found to the left of the title of the article to identify it as a "Featured".  It will go from a white heart to a black heart once it is clicked.    A black heart will appear next to the title of the article once it is selected as Featured.  
• In the UICollaboratory, these items will appear at the top of the list of your activities, and appear with the word Featured

To Highlight your professional activities, grants, or teaching activities as Featured, 

• Click on the link to your list of professional activities, grants, or teaching activities under My Summary.   
• Click the Heart that is found underneath each item in the list that you would like to identify as a "Featured".  It will go from a red heart to a white heart once it is clicked.    A red heart will appear next to the title once it is selected as Featured.  
• In the UICollaboratory, these items will appear at the top of the list of your activities, and appear with the word Featured

Individual activities in certain categories, such as journal articles, books, funded grants, honors & awards, memberships, and courses taught will appear by default in the UICollaboratory.   These are activity categories where the activities are set to appear in the UICollaboratory.  (see list of  Activities appearing In UICollaboratory).   By default, the individual activities in the categories are set to public, and thus will appear in the UICollaboratory.  If there are individual activities  that you do not want public, you may hide them by making them private.   Activities in other activity categories are defaulted to private.   You can choose to make them visible in MyActivities, but unless they are in a category set to appear in the UICollaboratory, it is not possible to make them public.

To hide your publications, professional activities, grants, or teaching activities from appearing in the UICollaboratory or MyActivities

• Click on the link to your list of publications, professional activities, grants, or teaching activities.   
• Click the world icon that is found to the right of the title of each item in the list that you would like to hide.  The entry will have a private icon to indicate it is invisible on your public profile.
• Private items will still appear in your personal reports or reports for your department or college, but they are not visible to others.

Go to http://uicollaboratory.uic.edu/ to view your public profile.

The personal name that is displayed in My Activities and the public profile tool are imported from Banner.   If you have a preferred name, you can change your displayed name by doing the following.

• Log into MyActivities

• click on Menu (found in upper left corner - looks like 3 lines) and under My Profile click on About Me

• under Preferred name enter what you want to see.  

• click update preferred name.