FRPA Help
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Getting Started - Login to FRPA Online
There are three ways to access FRPA Online:
Log in to using your campus IdentiKey credentials. From the “CU Resources” or "Reporting & Compliance" tab, click the tile for “Faculty Reporting & DEPA.” Click the “Login to FRPA Online” button.
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FRPA Online can also be accessed directly
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- FRPA Online can also be accessed with your FRPA-specific logincredentials at
Staff needing to access an individual faculty member's report on their behalf, please use access method #3 listed above. You will need to first enter your own campus IdentiKey credentials when prompted on the ϳԹ Federated Identity Service page. On the subsequent page, enter the faculty member's FRPA-specific login credentials. If the faculty member does not know their FRPA-specific login credentials, please have them contact the Faculty Data & Impact Team at the Office of Faculty Affairs by emailingofafacultydata@colorado.edu
If you have technical questions, please contact the ϳԹ OIT Service Center 303-735-HELPǰhelp@colorado.edu
General Instructions
When you are logged on to FRPA Online, you will see menu options on the left, and on the top banner of your screen. In the top bannerare links to find assistance, give feedback and logout, as well as a link to "Activity Codes." FRPA uses Activity Codes to group activities by type. Click “Activity Codes” to see a full list of codes and descriptions.
The items on the left grey menu represent sections of your report. Visit each section to complete your report. There may be sections where you have nothing to edit or enter.
Once you’ve completed each section of your report, navigate to the "View/Print FRPA" menu item under the "Enter FRPA Activities" section to review your full FRPA. When you are satisfied with your report, scroll to the bottom of the left menu and click “Finish Your FRPA.” Click the “Complete & Release” button, select your unit(s) from the list, and click the “Finish Complete & Release” button.
Note: Should you make modifications to your FRPA after the initial submission, you will need to complete and re-release the updated report to your unit. See Complete FRPA and Release Reports
Within each report section, the blue “i" icon indicates basic information for the section. Throughout the application, on data entry screens, click on a “?” icon to see details for that section. If you have questions about the FRPA, please contact the Faculty Data & Impact Team in the Office of Faculty Affairs ofafacultydata@colorado.edu
Vitas in FRPA
The Faculty Information System (FIS) can accommodate a vita for public use, as well as a vita for internal use for each faculty member. Alternatively, you may choose to designate one vita for both purposes. Please upload your vita at least annually. Subsequent uploads will replace the file(s) on record for you.
The Internal Vita is available to campus administrators, deans, department heads and other offices on campus interested in the research interests and accomplishments of the faculty.
Public Vitas submitted through FRPA Online are published on CU Experts. Faculty should carefully consider the personal information included on their submitted vitas as this information will be accessible on the web. Possible items to avoid include: home contact information, names of family members, date of birth, and other personal items not related to your professional work. Content of the vita is ultimately at the discretion of the individual faculty member.
Please go to “Vita” in the left grey menu to upload a vita. Faculty may choose to use the same version of their vita for both the internal and public vita by clicking that designation.
Vitas may be uploaded through FRPA Online only a PDF file.Using the PDF format will ensure that your vita remains unchanged when viewed online.
Profile Name
Faculty can enter the name they wish displayed on their CU Experts profile through FRPA Online. By default, the faculty member's name as it appears in payroll records is exported to CU Experts. To enter an alternate preferred profile name, click on “Profile Name” in the left grey menu and follow the instructions. These changes will only show in Preferred Name field. Name changes for legal or payroll reasons must be submitted through your HR/payroll liaison.
International Activities
Click on “International” in the left grey menu to access the International Activities section of your FRPA.
How the Data Will Be Used
Scholarship and education are increasingly global in nature. FRPA collects information on our faculty's international activities. This information is used to identify collaborations and opportunities that benefit faculty and student efforts to expand global involvement. The campus is interested in all international activities conducted by the faculty including teaching, research, scholarly work and creative work occurring in a foreign country as well as collaboration with foreign groups even if foreign travel was not involved.
This section was instituted in January 2009 as a general survey to determine the level and type of international engagement our faculty are involved in for use in guiding various campus initiatives related to global academic endeavors. International Activity data are now displayed in faculty CU Experts profiles. In order to get the most complete data, the international activities module is designated as a required component (i.e. an error will result if no response is submitted prior to completion of the report).
The international activities section of the FRPA is not part of an individual faculty member's printed FRPA nor part of their annual merit evaluation.The data may be provided to department chairs and directors to use administratively. International Activity data are featured on .
Instructions
Access the International Activities module by clicking on “International” in the left grey navigation menu of FRPA Online.
Please revise your response as often as necessary and at least once annually. Prior responses to these questions are overwritten with your most current update within a report year. Data submitted previously may be revised to include new additional activities. If information on international activities has been previously submitted, then the report screen is displayed, showing a read-only version of the data entered about international activities. Click on the “Edit International Activities” button to change your data.
After answering the first question, please proceed to describe the related activities by selecting those boxes that apply. For international activities that do not fall into one of the stated categories, select 'Other' and include a brief description (maximum 720 characters). If you do not participate in any international activities, answer 'No' and scroll to the bottom of the page to submit your response.
The first question in the International Activities section is required. If a user attempts to submit a completed FRPA without completing this question, a message is displayed. If “Yes” is selected for the first question, then at least one box must be checked and at least one country must be selected.
Once you have answered the questions and selected countries and regions, check the acknowledgement box, and then click ”Save” to send your responses to the database. If an error is detected, you will have an opportunity to correct it.
Lists of Countries and Regions
Your Country and Region selections are displayed in the right-hand box in the appropriate section. You may move your desired selections from the list on the left to the right-hand box by double-clicking on a country or region in the left box, or by selecting one or more countries or regions on the left, and then clicking the right arrow to move them to your selection box. You may select multiple countries and regions by using "Control+click" or "Command+click".
To remove all your selections displayed in the right-hand box, select all by clicking on the first one in your list, and then hold down the "Shift" key as you click on the last country or region in your list. Then click the left arrow to remove all selections.
Scroll through the lists by using the scroll bar.
Jump to a section by clicking within t