How to edit faculty information for an online profile

Prerequisites to working with the General Contact Info tool are:

• you will need access to the Dept EDIR Admin tools.
• you will need to know what you want to modify or add to the employee profiles that are available on the Mount Sinai Medical Center website.

Use the table below (or the tabbed preview information available on Sinai Central) to map out what section of the tool needs to be worked with and submitted.*

*This table does not cover all of the information that may be available from a profile found with the Find A Faculty search. Review this document for full details on what can be edited via the editing tools available.

• Log into Sinai Central. You can do this from http://sinaicentral.mssm.edu.
  Take a look at this document if you are having issues with your login.
• From the left hand menu , select EDir > Dept EDIR Admin.
  • You may need to select the Home link from the top right hand side of the window to expose the highest level sections of the left hand menu.
  • If you cannot find the EDir service, then you may not have been assigned the role. All users that have the ADMINISTRATOR role will have access to this service.
    Other users can be explicitly assigned the role to have access to the service. Review this document for instructions on how to be assigned the role.

1. Select your department from the drop down menu. Click on the Select button.

2. Click on SELECT USER in the left hand menu.
3. Enter the employee's name and / or lifenumber into the search tool. Click on the Search button.
4. Select the employees name from the search results.
   

5. The left hand menu will expand and the information under the various profiles will appear. Click on FACULTY.
   To see information currently available under the online faculty profile, you can click on the corresponding tab in the center section for more details.

The update faculty profile tool is now available on the screen.

The requester and status information is available at the top of the tool.

6. Enter a biographical summary for the faculty profile in this editor. The formatting tools above that will be coded for you include (from left to right):
   
   • Bold type
   • Italic Type
   • A horizontal line
   • numbered list
   • bullet list
   • hyperlink (to another webpage)*
   • a picture link (to add a picture that is available on another webpage)

7. To enter another institution, click on the Add another institution link. The Education section will expand. Enter the form details including the:

• Institution name
• City, State, Country
• Level of education reached at the institution
• Start and End Date of the attendance at the institution
• Degree received from the institution in what Field of Study
• If this level of education is related to Postdoctoral work

Click on the trash can icon to remove the information from an institution entered.

8. Enter a research topic summary in this editor. For more information on the editor, see the Biography Section above.

Click on Add another research topic link to create another research topic. Click on the trash can icon to remove the information from a topic recently entered.

9. Enter/Modify the following information about the award
   
   • Title
   • The Organization rewarding the award
   • A Description about the award
   • What period (in terms of Year and End Year) the award was for

To Add another award, click on the available link at the bottom of the form. Click on the trash can icon to remove the information from an award entered.

10. Down at the bottom of the form, click on the SUBMIT REQUEST button. You can choose to also save a draft (with the SAVE DRAFT button) for later editing or cancel the request with the CANCEL REQUEST button.