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Faculty Effort Training Classes and Materials
- Classroom Training Opportunities
- eLearning Tutorials
- Supplemental Training Material
- UW Websites
- Federal Websites
Faculty Efforti Certification, the Basics
Provides a general overview of compliance requirements and the steps necessary to successfully review effort reports. Designed for staff new to effort reporting and as a refresher for more experienced staff. Recommended as a foundation course to be taken before the eFECS Online Certification class. Sponsored by Management Accounting and Analysis.
Faculty Effort Certification, Beyond the Basics
Provides a more in depth review of specific and more complicated effort reporting issues such as cost sharing, K Awards, VA faculty. Sponsored by Management Accounting and Analysis.
In Development
Effort Compliance
Provides participants with a general understanding of the principles behind the Federal requirements related to effort reporting. Sponsored by Management Accouting and Analysis.
Not currently offered
Cost Sharingi Essentials
Provides an overview of the types, sources and documentation requirements of cost sharing, describes the regulatory environment and identifies who is involved and their responsibilities. Sponsored by the Office of Sponsored Programs, Management Accounting and Analysis and Grant and Contract Accounting.
eFECS Training
Orients a new user through the various screens and data features of the electronic Faculty Effort and Cost Share System (eFECS). Sponsored by the eFECS Project Team.
OSPi Learn
Research and administration training opportunities. Sponsored by central and campus academic departments.
Grant and Contract Fiscal Administration I
Overview of policies, rules, regulations and procedures necessary for post award administration of grant and contract budgets. Sponsored by Grant and Contract Accounting.
Grant and Contract Fiscal Administration II
Advanced post award administration of grant and contract budgets. Sponsored by Grant and Contract Accounting.
Designed to provide ASTRA authorizers an overview of the three ASTRA roles applicable to campus users of eFECS. It also introduces the ASTRA actions that may be assigned to each role and how an authorizer grants campus users access to eFECS. Recommended for eFECS ASTRA authorizers.
An introduction to why and when FECs are necessary, including instructions for certifying effort and basic eFECS navigational tips. Tutorial runs approximately 3-5 minutes. Designed for faculty required to certify Faculty Effort Certification Reports (FECs).
Designed for FEC Coordinators, this tutorial introduces the allowable cost share adjustments sometimes necessary to reflect the actual effort performed for commited cost share displayed on the FEC. It also provides an awareness of the most common types of cost share adjustments. This e-Learning will interactively walk you throughmaking an adjustment to cost shared effort on the FEC when there is a reduction in effort in another cycle. It also demonstrates the impact of this adjustment on the FEC. It does not cover cost share adjustments for K awards.
Overview of the eFECS Cost Share Module
Mandatory training provided to faculty in 2005 including overview of key concepts and principles for non-clinical faculty.
Mandatory training provided to faculty in 2005 including overview of key concepts and principles for clinical faculty.
Provides an overview of the Online FEC with definitions and terms.
Provides an overview of the Summary FEC with definitions and terms.
Provides a basic introduction to the FEC process and eFECS system.
Designed for FEC Coordinators and Administrators
Designed for faculty to introduce and familiarize them with the eFECS Online Certification process. FEC Coordinators and Administrators may also find these resources useful when working with their faculty.
A short slide show to introduce Faculty to eFECS.
Instructions for certifying an FEC.
Outlines the official policy for effort reporting at UW.
Outlines general information on preparing a grant. See budget section for salaries and cost sharing.
Outlines the official UW policy on salary transfers.
Outlines official UW guidelines for cost sharing on Grants and Contracts.
General information on faculty effort, certification requirements, faculty cost share, retention schedule, links to related information.
Provides an overview of cost sharing tyupes, requirements and tools for reporting.
Online report that displays the status of required mandatory and committed cost sharing.
Decision Support Center Reports (Contact Decision Support for access to these reports)
- Retroactive Salary Adjustment Report: Report assists department in determining when a recertification is necessary by identifying salary transactions processed after an FEC has been certified.
- Faculty Effort Certification Dashboard Report: Provides departments with current status of effort reporting by org code and FEC cycle.
- 100% Sponsor Funded Faculty Report: Displays Faculty who have made grant proposals during periods they were paid 100% from sponsored funds.
A-21 (CFR, Part 220) Cost Principles for Educational Institutions (5/10/2004)
Provides the Federal guidelines for effort reporting, Section J.10.Compensation for personal services.
A-110 (CFR, Part 230) Uniform Administrative REquirement for Grants and Other Agreements with Institutions of Higher Education, Hospitals and Other Non-Profit Organizations (11/19/1993)
Provides the Federal guidelines for cost sharing, Section § 215.23 Cost sharing or matching.
Criteria for reporting voluntary uncommitted cost sharing.
Summary of salary caps for current and prior years and links to annual notice.
Information about NIH Career Development Awards (K Awards).
Instructions for deteriming full time effort for faculty with Career Development Awards (K Awards)
Policy for reduction of effort on K Awards during last two years of award.