Using the Impacts form in CRO to record your research impact will make your work easier when you have to provide evidence of your engagement and impact. This form records a narrative of your research impact activities and their benefit to the wider community.
Your Impact narratives recorded in these forms can be viewed on your public CRO profile.
Use this form to record impact case studies for RPI assessment.
In your impact narrative you can also keep a record of artifacts (web links, publications or media items) that are evidence of your research impact.
The following sections of this guide will take you through completing the Impact form in CRO. If you require further assistance please contact the CRO team.
To save your Impact case study for later completion you need to do two things:
'Keywords' in CRO have been created to allow you to indicate the status of your impact case study.
This is helpful for CRO administrators to know if your case study is intended for RPI assessment or not, whether you are still drafting it, or whether it is finalised and ready for assessment or approval.
| Update the Impact case study status keyword |
In the Impact case study form in CRO, scroll down to the Keywords section until you see Impact Case Study Status:
Click the 'Add impact case study status' button. From the pop-up box, select the options which reflects the status of your case study.
Case studies not for RPI assessment In some cases researchers may enter an impact case study that highlights their academic, teaching or other research impact for showcasing on their public CRO profile. Usually, these case studies are not eligible for RPI assessment, however researchers may wish to record them in CRO. Use the 'Not for RPI assessment' keyword options if you do not wish to have your case study assessed for RPI points. Save your case study as 'draft' while you are working on it, and then update it to 'final' when you are ready for it to be 'approved'. To do this, click the '-' next to the draft keyword option to remove it. Then click 'Add Impact case study status' to open the pop-up box and select the 'final' status.
Case studies for RPI Assessment If you are intending to have your Impact case study assessed for RPI points use the 'For RPI Assessment' keyword options. Select the 'draft' keyword to indicate to CRO Administrators that you are still working on your case study. Once your case study is ready for assessment, change the key word to 'final'. To do this click the '-' next to the draft status to remove it. Then click 'Add Impact case study status' to open the pop-up box and select the 'final' status. Once finalised, your Impact case study will be verified and collated for inclusion in the RPI Impact assessment.
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| CRO Status |
To ensure you can continue working on your Impact case study, make sure the status of the CRO record is set to 'Entry in Progress'. You will find this status at the bottom of the Impact form screen.
If your record's status is set to 'For approval' you will not be able to change it back to Entry in Progress as only CRO administrators are able to do this. Make a note of the Impact record ID (in the top left hand of the Impact form), and send an email to RPI support (RPI@csu.edu.au) quoting the Impact record ID and ask for the record to be returned to 'Entry in Progress' for editing. |
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