AIMS Terms

Adults	Audience type.  Typically 19 years of age and older.
Age	Age is collected for contacts in 4-H and SNAP-Ed programs.
AIMS	Arkansas Information Management System (AIMS) is the online accountability database for the University of Arkansas, Division of Agriculture - Extension.
AIMS Help	“Just in Time” informational blog for AIMS users
Audience	The clientele group you target your program towards
Change User	Supervisor link which allows a supervisor to view reporting by each of the employees they supervise
Civil Rights Audience (Category)	The program area under which the educational efforts would best fit.
Contacts- Direct	A contact made WITHOUT the aid of transmitting agent or device. In a direct contact, the educational course is in straight line (linear) without any deviation or intervention between the educator & the client or participant.
Contacts- Indirect	A contact made WITH the aid of transmitting agent or device; such as telephone, electronic media, or newsletter. In an indirect contact, the educational course is NOT in straight line (linear) without any deviation or intervention between the educator & the client or participant. (i.e. Newsletters, Radio, TV, Print Articles, Internet etc.)
Ethnicity	A self-identified group connected to specific groups of people who share a common linguistic, religious and/or cultural heritage. (AIMS categories- Hispanic/Latino, Non-Hispanic/Latino)
Event	Utilized mainly with SNAP-Ed, events allow you to schedule an event within a specific objective and then report your time and contacts at a later time
FAQ	Frequently Asked Questions
FY	Fiscal Year - AIMS uses the Federal Program Year which runs from October 1 to September 30. Identified by the year it ends in (i.e. FY10 started Oct. 2009, ended Sept. 2010)
Gender	Male or Female
Goal	A more specific area within a broader program area (i.e. “4-H Youth Development” is a goal within “Increasing Opportunities for Families & Youth”)
Hours Accountability Report	Supervisor’s Report- View the hours reported by each of the employees under the supervisor
Impact	Long term changes for individuals, groups, communities, organizations, communities, or systems which relate to economic, social, or environmental conditions
Indicators	Includes both Outcome and Output indicators.  They are indicators of program effort and program success.
Integrated Extension & Research Time	Time spent working on programs in collaboration with Arkansas Experiment Station(AES)
Internal Division of Agriculture Contacts	Contacts with Division of Agriculture employees (these contacts are NOT reported within your program contacts)
IPOW	Individual Plan of Work
IPOW Summary	Shows a summary of your planned work areas
Methods- Direct	Direct, real time delivery of educational information/material (you know the person received the information)
Methods- Indirect	A contact made WITH the aid of transmitting agent or device; such as electronic media or newsletter. In an indirect method, the educational course is NOT in straight line (linear) without any deviation or intervention between the educator & the client or participant. (i.e. Newsletters, Radio, TV, Print Articles, Internet etc.)
Multi-State Extension Activity Time	Extension Activity Sponsored by Arkansas CES & other States CES
My Plan	Page for Creating/Modifying an Individual Plan of Work.  Contains a detail list of the content for each Planned Program.
My Reporting	Page for reporting time and effort.
myReporting - Notes	This allows you to leave yourself notes related to the events you are reporting about. NOTE: When you pull a Notes Report, it will NOT include the contact or hour information you entered. If you will need that information, please include it in the text of your note.
myReporting- Contacts	An educational contact, direct or indirect, made in support or as a result of educational efforts.
myReporting- Volunteers	This is where you report the contacts you have had with volunteers and the number of hours your volunteers contributed to that objective. Remember, these do not have to be “official” volunteers, but can include the time of someone who has just assisted you in the program.
NIFA POW	National Institute of Food & Agriculture Plan of Work
NIFA ROA	National Institute of Food & Agriculture Report of Accomplishments- State accountability report submitted yearly
Objective	A sub-category of a program area’s goal.
ORGN	The organizational number assigned to your primary work location/department.
Outcome	Results or changes for individuals, groups, communities, organizations, communities, or systems
Output	Activities, services, events and products that reach people who participate or who are targeted (thing WE do)
Planned Program	These are the over-arching programs that we collect time and effort towards.
Planning Unit	The department or county in which are housed. Reports pulled by the planning unit will include data reported by all individuals in the unit.
Program Area Impact Report (PDF)	These impact report templates are formatted to include an overall view of the program area as well as a program highlight impact story.
Program Investment Report	Supervisor’s Report- View the hours and contacts reported by each of the employees under the supervisor, as well as the option to see statewide investments
Program Planning & Delivery Time	All time spent on activities and tasks in support of educational efforts.
Race	A group identity historically related to a local geographic or global human population traditionally distinguished as a group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics, i.e. skin color, facial characteristics, color, and texture of hair, etc.
Results	Page for results reports, including programmatic, planning, civil rights, and SNAP.
Time Frame	Time frame in which you would like the reports to reflect
Total Number of Direct Contacts by Method	The TOTAL number of contact made for that method (i.e. you held 2 meetings with 8 participants and 15 participants for a total of 23 direct contacts for meetings)
Total Number of Times the Method Is Used	The number of individual instances of that methods (i.e. # of individual meetings conducted)
Volunteer Audience Type	Categorizes the type of volunteer for reporting purposes.
Volunteerism- Boards/Commissions/Advisory Councils	This includes unpaid support for any extension program through those members of boards, committees, commissions, & advisory councils.
Volunteerism- Direct Service	This includes unpaid support for any extension program through hands-on, face to face, client service such as tutoring, mentoring, visiting the elderly, distributing food, 4-H project leader, 4-H club leader, camp counselor, etc.
Volunteerism- Indirect Service	This includes unpaid support for any extension program through drives, collections, fund-raisers, clean-ups environmental projects, construction, etc. through means other than face to face.
Volunteerism- Service Learning	This includes volunteer participation in subject matter seminars or other self-directed learning to meet 4-H or Master Gardener commitments or to support the delivery of other CES programs. This can include monthly meetings, self-study, content research, etc.
Youth	Audience type.  Divided into groups 5-8 years; 9-13 years; 14-19 years.