Effort Reporting
Effort Reporting is our means of providing assurance to sponsors that:
- Salaries charged to sponsored projects are reasonable in relation to the work performed.
- Faculty and staff have met their commitments to sponsored projects.
Success in the effort realm depends on careful attention to important issues throughout the sponsored projects lifecycle.
ECRT (Effort Certification and Reporting Technology)
- Enter the ECRT (Effort System). The new Web-based system for certifying effort is "live," and can also be accessed at the UWM portal, MyUWM, using your ePantherID and password. It is for faculty, academic staff, and PIs with effort on sponsored projects
- Certifier's Quick-Start Guide (PDF)
Web-Based Online Training
www.citiprogram.org — "The Basics of Effort Reporting" is an online training course for faculty, academic staff, and PIs with effort on sponsored projects.
- The course is in the CITI system, a service that offers compliance and ethics education to research institutions. Register as requested and select University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee from the dropdown menu.
- You can stop at any time and then resume where you left off.
- Each certifier must complete the training within 90 days of the first date on which a statement is available for certifying in ECRT. For all current certifiers, training must be completed by January 30, 2008.
We strongly recommend completing the training before certifying with the new ECRT system.
The Basics of Effort Reporting
- Overview of UWM effort reporting.
- The Top Ten Things You Should Know Today about Effort on Sponsored Projects (A PowerPoint overview).
- Examples of Effort Certification (PowerPoint).
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Policies and Guidelines
- UW-Milwaukee Effort Reporting Policy DRAFT: For certifying Calendar Year 2007 effort (September 19, 2007 version).
- UW-Milwaukee Effort Reporting Guidelines DRAFT: Proposing, Managing, and Certifying Effort Associated with Sponsored Projects (August 29, 2007 version).
- Campus Effort Coordinators
Background Information
- Policies and Practices: Compensation, Effort Commitments, and Certification: An invaluable source of information about federal requirements and how to interpret them, issued in March 2007 by the Council On Governmental Relations (COGR, of which the UW is a member).
- Just the Executive Overview