How to Track Your Service Hours
You can track all of your service hours and community engagement through EngageDeis. EngageDeis calls this "adding impacts." All Brandeis students have an EngageDeis account, which means ANY student can add impacts.
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Tracking your service/volunteer hours by adding impacts is mutually beneficial for students, community partners, and the university! Here's how:
- Tracking allows Brandeis to provide a unique and detailed service profile to students that can be shared with potential graduate programs and employers (medical schools ask for proof of campus involvement)
- Tracking provides a quantifiable way for students to track their impacts and develop their service story
- Hour requirements are needed for the Commitment to Service Award Program.
- Brandeis is able to quantify the number of service hours students commit to serving the community, which helps us find and secure grants and national recognition
- Grants and recognition allow Brandeis to invest in resources for both students and community
- Finally, tracking helps us stay motivated to continue serving throughout the year and acknowledge the work you've put into causes you care about
If you need to submit a report of your service hours, either to potential employers and/or graduate programs, here's how:
1. To print a summary of your service, select "my activity" in the top right corner of your screen next to your profile icon. Then, select "impacts." This will give you an overview of your impacts. Select the "print summary" button on the right-hand side of your screen. See minute 6 of this video for visual instructions.
2, If you have hours logged in both SAGE and EngageDeis, AND/OR want your hours broken down only by organization/club and hours, you can download our template and fill out the summary report. Fill out the editable PDF template or the Word document version.
Instructions
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First, login to your EngageDeis account using your Brandeis credentials.
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Navigate to your profile icon on the top, right-hand side of your screen and select the "add impacts" button from the drop down menu.
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You will select where you created your impact and then fill out the impact form.
For more instructions and information about how to add your impacts on EngageDeis, check out how to add impacts guide or our Resources and Support page.
Request Forms for Tracking Hours
If your group and/or individual service project is not on EngageDeis, you will need to submit one of the request forms below to join the platform. Applications are due on the 25th of each month and will be reviewed by the 15th of the following month by the Commitment to Service Award (CTSA) Advisory Committee. If your application is submitted after the deadline, it will be reviewed in the next cycle.
Once your request has been approved, a Department of Student Engagement staff member will reach out and assist you with uploading your project and tracking your hours. Until your project is approved, you should continue to independently track your service hours.
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An individual project is defined as an initiative that aims to serve the greater Brandeis or Waltham community that is undertaken by one person.
Individual projects include volunteering with established organizations as an individual (e.g., volunteering with the Salvation Army alone or with a few friends)
individual project requests
A group initiative is defined as a structured effort to serve the community undertaken by a group of people united by a common mission. Group initiatives can include, but are not limited to, clubs, programs and organizations.
Please work collaboratively with your team to complete this request form and note that only one request per group needs to be submitted.
Group Project Review Requests