This FAQ is designed to assist faculty members in understanding and utilizing the R2 Scorecard effectively. Your engagement with this tool is vital for its success and continual improvement. We encourage you to provide feedback and suggestions to enhance its functionality and relevance to your professional needs.
A PDF version of the FAQ is available here. If you have a question that is not addressed in the FAQ, please contact us or send an email to our support team at agandenvironmentextension@missouri.edu.
The scorecard provides MU Extension faculty with quantifiable metrics about their programs. The scorecard has two sections – Resources and Reach (R2).
The Resource metrics provide data on grant activity, salary offset, and fee revenue. It shows a picture of the financial investments our partners make in a faculty member’s program.
The Reach section captures data on Extension events, direct contacts, media visibility, and views/downloads of publications on the MU Extension website. The data for the Reach section mostly comes from your reporting in myExtension, web views from our MU Extension Integrated Marketing and Communications team, and media mentions from our monitoring services, CISION and NewzGroup.
As MU Extension shifts from myExtension to the Program Evaluation And Reporting System (PEARS) in January 2025, the scorecard will pull data from PEARS at that time.
The scorecard was rolled out in spring 2024. Faculty received an email announcement when the scorecard website was ready. We offered three Zoom sessions that explained the background of the scorecard and how to use it. We recorded these virtual information sessions and you can watch one of them here. The remainder of 2024 will be used as a test year for the scorecard.
Nope. We gather the Resource and Reach data from existing resources; you don’t need to enter any data that you should not already be reporting elsewhere. It is not a new reporting system. It is a new (and we think better) way to visualize your data. For many of you, it will be your first look at the university’s financial and reach data associated with your program.
Go to https://rsquared.missouri.edu. Once there, log in using your MU pawprint and password.
The annotated image below describes the scorecard metrics. There are also tooltips for the metrics embedded in the scorecard. Just look for these symbols:
Data accuracy is a priority. Media mentions and readership come from CISION and NewzGroup, both nationally recognized media monitoring services. Event and direct contact data come from myExtension; publication downloads and web visits to MU Extension as well as Canvas course registration data come from MU Extension’s IMC team.
Resource data comes directly from PeopleSoft which is the University of Missouri’s official accounting system.
We encourage reporting any concerns regarding data reliability or potential manipulation to the support team, agandenvironmentextension@missouri.edu.
The scorecard uses key metrics with national recognition, but they are by no means exhaustive. We’re open to suggestions for additional metrics that we can capture. Your feedback is valuable for continuous improvement.
No. The scorecard captures activities related to your Extension program. Faculty still need to develop evaluation tools and narratives that describe the impact of their work. That said, few programs become impactful without adequate Resources or Reaching anyone.
We expect everyone to enter event data into myExtension (and in the future PEARS) throughout the year. The scorecard pulls myExtension data daily, meaning that your event data should appear the day after you enter the attendance information, etc. For accurate metrics in your scorecard, regularly update myExtension during the year.
For those unfamiliar with how to enter an event into myExtension, here is a link to a tutorial on how to do that.
We find it takes new employees about three years to reach the benchmarks. Your supervisor should be aware of the time it takes to start a new program. That said, feel free to check out the scorecard often, as it gives you near-real-time feedback about your Extension activities.
Media mentions and readership metrics update monthly. Every other metric updates daily.
Searches are based on your name or its derivatives and keywords such as “MU”, “University of Missouri” or “Extension”. Here is an example of a search as it would appear in Boolean language in CISION for our colleague “Truman Tiger” (a.k.a. Truman the Tiger and Tru Tiger):
(“Missouri University Extension” OR “Missouri University Extension’s” OR “Missouri University Extension’s” OR “University of Missouri Extension” OR “University of Missouri Extension’s” OR “University of Missouri Extension’s” OR “Mizzou Extension” OR “Mizzou Extension’s” OR “Mizzou Extension’s” OR “MU Extension” OR “MU Extension’s” OR “MU Extension’s” OR “University of Missouri” OR “University of Missouri’s” OR “University of Missouri’s” OR “CAFNR” OR “College of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources” OR “College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources” OR “College of Ag” OR “College of Agriculture”) AND (“Truman Tiger” OR “Truman Tiger’s” OR “Truman Tiger’s” OR “Truman the Tiger” OR “Truman the Tiger’s” OR “Truman the Tiger’s” OR Tru Tiger” OR “Tru Tiger’s” OR “Tru Tiger’s”) AND (“Extension Missouri Tiger”~50 OR “University Missouri Tiger”~50 OR “University Missouri’s Tiger”~50 OR “MU Tiger”~50 OR “Mizzou Tiger”~50 OR “CAFNR Tiger”~50 OR “Extension Tiger”~50 OR “Extension Missouri Tiger’s”~50 OR “University Missouri Tiger’s”~50 OR “University Missouri’s Tiger’s”~50 OR “MU Tiger’s”~50 OR “Mizzou Tiger’s”~50 OR “CAFNR Tiger’s”~50 OR “Extension Tiger’s”~50 OR “Extension Missouri Tiger’s”~50 OR “University Missouri Tiger’s”~50 OR “University Missouri’s Tiger’s”~50 OR “MU Tiger’s”~50 OR “Mizzou Tiger’s”~50 OR “CAFNR Tiger’s”~50 OR “Extension Tiger’s”~50 OR “TrumanTiger@missouri.edu” OR “TrumanTiger@”)
Send all your social media handles to the A&E support team at agandenvironmentextension@missouri.edu We can then point our media monitoring software to look for items with these handles.
This metric is limited to publications available on the Extension website.
Published articles in other outlets (academic journals, outside websites) are not captured by this metric. Note: we are working on how to fairly and efficiently capture these data for future versions of the scorecard as part of our continuous improvement process.
Add these events as an individual participant (or as part of a team) to myExtension. If you are unsure of the attendance numbers, work with the event organizer/podcast broadcaster to get the best estimate possible.
No. Each session for a multi-session program or event is counted separately, meaning you get credit for each session and its individual attendance.
Please report technical issues to the support team, agandenvironmentextension@missouri.edu, so we can resolve them quickly.