Frequently Asked Questions

Faculty Success uses MTSU’s SSO (Single Sign-On) service. 

Contact the system administrator, Sabrina Wright, or contact ITD. 

A system for reporting and managing your faculty activities. Think of it as an electronic portfolio.

Faculty Success gives you a place where all of your academic work and accomplishments can be recorded, stored, and used for a variety of purposes. 

Regular faculty members who are tenured, tenure-track, and specialized (non-tenure) track.

The most common use of the system will be for faculty members to run an annual Performance Evaluation and VITA reports. Reports can be downloaded as a Word Document, Adobe PDF or in HTML. In Word the documents are editable and sections may be copied for other uses that faculty may have.

Please note that MTSU will be developing other uses for Faculty Success as the university becomes more familiar with this dynamic system.

Relevant activities during the year should be entered in preparation for the annual Performance Evaluation report that the Provost’s Office requests. Semesterly updates are recommended to keep information up-to-date.

Faculty Success will not allow you to upload a file that is larger than 50MB. If you would like to link to a file that is larger that 50MB (i.e., audio or video files) that is accessible on the web or that you have stored, you can create an HTML page or Microsoft Word document that contains a link to the file (web) or the embed code. You can then upload the HTML file or Word document to Faculty Success where you would have uploaded the audio or video file.

If the file is under 50MB, it may be the browser you are using. Try using Firefox and Chrome. 

We hope the names of each screen will guide you. If you are not sure, contact your College and/or Department Chair.

The following screens will import data from Banner via web services: Permanent Data, Yearly Data, Workload Information, Degrees (listed by CIP Code), Scheduled Teaching, Personal Contact Information. 

Errors should be reported to your Faculty Success Administrator – [email protected].

The short answer is “no”. Not every screen or field is relevant to every faculty member. It is important to note that you should only enter an item once! If you have specific questions about what to include where, consult with your college and/or department chair. 

You can upload these additional supporting documents in a workflow when you are submitting your materials for review. However, you cannot see a workflow or workflows until you receive an email inviting you to submit your materials. Until you receive the invitation to submit we recommend you create a DM file on your computer and organize additional information/files there. 

1. Organize data/supporting information by year and merge into one PDF. 
2. Use a file name that is descriptive (ex: Student Comments 18-19.pdf)

Send a request with your name and the name of your prior institution to [email protected] and we will work with you and your prior institution to accomplish this.

We upload Scheduled Teaching from Banner. If your courses are not appearing correctly, please contact [email protected] (Faculty Success administrator) with the course inconsistency. ITD will need to be contacted to correct the issue.

Faculty members have access to their own accounts as well as immediate Department Heads, Deans, and the Provost Office.

Our service agreement with Faculty Success states that your data cannot be disclosed, reused, sold, or disseminated in any way by Faculty Success. Faculty Success also protects your confidential data.

Currently, we do have a proxy process in place for data assistance.  Remember, we’re pulling data that is stored in official university systems such as Banner (teaching data). Your role is to verify the data that shows for you is accurate. 

Contact Sabrina Wright at [email protected] or by phone at 615-494-8721.

Our office has developed some resources for you to get started, import your activities, run reports, prepare CVs, and some great tips and tricks. Find it here. 

You may access our brief introductory tutorial with instructional videos here. COMING SOON

View our calendar of scheduled trainings here. COMING SOON