Elements Training

Elements Essentials Workshops

We offer a range of online workshops on Elements. See our programme below and sign up for an upcoming session. 

  • Elements Essentials: Profile

    Is your staff profile up-to-date? This 45-minute workshop will explain how Elements is used to host your ÅÝܽ¶ÌÊÓƵ staff profile, capturing information on both your teaching and research interests, linking to your publications and information about your professional and teaching activities.

  • Elements Essentials: Impact

    How are you planning to capture evidence of your research impact? This workshop will explore how the new Elements impact module can be used to plan for and capture aspects of your research impact. Opportunities will be provided for participants to ask questions based on their own experience.

  • Elements Essentials: Reports

    This workshop will cover the Basic Reporting function within Elements.  It will demonstrate how reports can be used to extract information on publications, profiles, teaching and professional activities. Please note this workshop will focus on the reporting functions available within Elements; it will not include information on the publications reports available via the Cognos Research dashboard.  

  • Elements Essentials: Publications

    Do you need to create and claim publication records in Elements either for yourself or on behalf of other members of staff? Are you unclear about the relationship between SRO and Elements? What is an AAM? This workshop will explain the process to create and claim publication records in Elements and deposit records to SRO. Opportunities will be provided for participants to ask questions based on their own experience.

  • Elements Essentials: Research Groups

    Research groups and Centres of Excellence can be set up as a group within Elements and staff, publications and other activities linked to the group. This workshop will explain how Elements can be used to bring together research outputs and other activities related to the work of a research group and the reporting / exporting options available.

  • Elements Essentials: REF2029 Assessments

    TBC

Further support

In addition, we are able to offer individual or group sessions to users who would like training on Elements. If you would like to request a session, please email elements@sussex.ac.uk with a selection of suitable dates and times, and we will be in touch to arrange an appointment.

For guidance on using Elements, including how-to videos, . 

Contact

If you have any queries or issues using Elements, the Library's Elements team will be more than happy to help. Please email us at elements@sussex.ac.uk.