What Is the Engagement Record?

The Student Engagement Record is an online tool that helps students track meaningful experiences both inside and outside the classroom. The record brings together involvement across a student's time at Iowa, including experiences such as:

  • Student employment
  • Student organization involvement
  • Volunteer and service activities
  • Study abroad
  • Research and creative expression
  • Experiential learning opportunities

Students can customize, export, and download their Engagement Record for use in résumés, CVs, LinkedIn profiles, Handshake profiles, internship applications, scholarships, and graduate or professional school applications.

Benefits for Students

The Engagement Record helps students:

  • Track involvement and experiences over time
  • Reflect on their learning and development
  • Recognize skills and competencies gained through engagement
  • Connect experiences to academic, personal, and career goals
  • Prepare for interviews, applications, and professional opportunities
  • Identify future opportunities for involvement and growth

By reviewing their Engagement Record, students can better understand how their experiences contribute to their success at Iowa and beyond.

Benefits for Faculty and Staff

The Engagement Record supports faculty and staff by helping them:

  • Promote a more holistic view of student learning and development
  • Connect students with meaningful opportunities
  • Support reflection and career readiness conversations
  • Help students recognize and articulate transferable skills
  • Identify opportunities that support student success and engagement
  • Access engagement data that can inform programming and decision-making

The Engagement Record also helps create a clearer pathway for students to connect experiences across their academic, co-curricular, and professional journeys.

Using the Record with Students

Faculty and staff can use the Engagement Record as a tool during advising, mentoring, teaching, supervision, and coaching conversations.

Consider encouraging students to:

  • Review their Engagement Record regularly
  • Reflect on what they have learned through their experiences
  • Identify skills they have developed
  • Explore opportunities they may want to pursue next
  • Use the record when updating résumés, applications, and professional profiles

Questions you might ask include:

  • Which experiences have been most meaningful to you?
  • What skills have you developed through those experiences?
  • What experiences are missing from your record?
  • What opportunities would you like to pursue next?
  • How have your experiences influenced your goals?

If students are unsure where to start, connect them with Engagement Advising and resources available through Engage.

Submit an Activity

Faculty and staff are invited to contribute to the Student Engagement Record by submitting co-curricular activities that provide meaningful engagement opportunities for students.

This process is intended for activities that are not already captured in university data systems, such as course enrollment, official student employment records, or student organization rosters.

How to Submit an Activity

  1. Complete the Activity Submission Form:
  2. Await review and approval.
  3. Once approved, you will receive a follow-up form to provide:
    • Activity start and end dates
    • Participating student information
    • Additional activity details

For assistance with the submission process, contact Teri Schnelle (teri-schnelle@uiowa.edu).