Faculty and staff members can announce themselves to be experts in their relevant fields by using the My Expertise function provided in My Settings under My Place. Alternately, campus administrators can enter information about known experts on their behalf.
To enter expertise information on someone else's behalf, select Campus Tools, Experts Admin. Under Add expert information, select Add an expert. CNAV displays the Add Expert screen. On this screen, specify the following information:
Expert's name: Enter the name of the person you wish to declare as an expert. Note that this entry field uses a dynamic list display. To limit the number of entries searched in the dynamic list, select a Search group from the provided drop-down list before beginning to type the expert's name.
Link topic(s) to expert: This section lists all of the expertise topics currently defined for your campus. Place a tick in the checkbox for each topic that you wish to declare as an area of expertise for this expert.
Add a new topic: Use this section to add a new topic to both this expert and your campus. Enter the topic name and description. (After adding a new topic in this way, you may wish to add this topic to a general category. To do so, click Campus Tools, Experts Admin, Modify a general category.)
After adding all desired information, click Submit to create the new expert. CNAV will display the Modify Expert screen for the newly created expert.
To clear this form and begin again, click Reset.
To return to the Expert Tools menu, click Back.