Transparent Approach to Costing (TRAC)
Information for staff completing the Time Allocation Survey
These pages are intended to provide you with information on TRAC, the Time Allocation Survey, web-diaries and guidance on how to complete them.
The Time Allocation Survey is in the form of an on-line diary. When entering the Time Allocation Survey you will be asked for a user name and password for your University email. Please refer to the detailed instructions before starting the diary. Guidance Notes (see further information below) and FAQs are provided to clarify the definitions of various activities; please use them as a reminder through the week. A list of active research grants within your School is provided in the diary system to enable you to allocate time spent on Research to a source of funding where applicable. It is possible to print out the blank webdiary page for each week, and if preferred you can complete on hard copy, and then transfer the information into the online diary at the end of each week.
The weeks for diary completion in Semester 2 this year are the weeks beginning:-
Monday 15th February
Monday 22nd February
Monday 15th March
Monday 22nd March
Monday 7th June
Monday 14th June
Further information:-
- TAS Guidance Notes (PDF, 82 KB)
- Instructions for staff completing the TAS timesheets
- Frequently asked questions
- Reasons why we use the Time Allocation Survey and TRAC
For problems with:-
TRAC coding issues and definitions - contact Garry McClymont in Finance (gjm11@st-andrews.ac.uk)
Systems issues and access to on-line diary - contact Hamish Lawson in BI (hbl@st-andrews.ac.uk)