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Office for Research Administration (ORA) Training Videos

Office for Research Administration (ORA) Training Videos

Your training needs depend upon where you are in the timeline of your sponsored research project. The Office for Research Administration (ORA) provides these training videos for your self-directed learning at the time when you need the training.

ORA Training Videos

Proposal Routing

Learn to prepare the Kuali Coeus (KC) Proposal Development (PD) document with step by step instructions. This training video is intended for new or infrequent users of the KC PD documents.

Budget Templates

Learn to prepare budget templates required for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF) proposal submissions.

EConfirm (ECC)

Learn how to use the new EConfirm (ECC) effort confirmation system.

Grants Management Toolkit (GMT) Demonstration

Grants Management Toolkit (GMT) is designed to allow faculty and departmental administrators access institutional information regarding their grants, contracts and unfunded agreements.

Cost Share Overview Tutorial

This tutorial explains the different types of cost share and outlines the procedures for documenting, budgeting, and reporting these costs. The tutorial also covers the use of indirect costs as cost share and the management of third-party contributions.

Managing Salary Cap Tutorial

This tutorial covers the concept of a salary cap, which sponsors typically implement one, how the salary cap impacts proposal submissions, and how it affects the management of your awards. Additionally, it provides tools you can use to manage it successfully.

Cost Transfers on Sponsored Program Accounts

This training video provides a comprehensive overview of cost transfers on sponsored program accounts. It covers essential topics such as required documentation, justification for transfers, disapprovals, and managing late cost transfers.

Final Reporting and Account Close Out

In this video, we will discuss the steps department personnel should take to prepare an award/account for final reporting and provide details about what ORA Reporting Administrators will look at when preparing a final report.

Pre/Post Award training for units

Pre/Post Award Training for Units Presentation

A slideshow presentation covering basic ORA functions, proposal preparation and submission, award negotiation and processing, subawards, and post award management. (Accessible 08/24/23)

Pre/Post Award Training for Units Video

A recording of the Pre and Post Award Training for Units Zoom presentation.

Other Support Q&A with ORA (Recorded December 2021)

Departmental staff bring questions about the January 2022 NIH implementation of Other Support requirements to an open Q&A with ORA.

SciENcv Demonstration

ORA & Ruth Lilly Medical Libraries hosted a SciENcv Demonstration as it relates to the NSF implementation of the Common Forms with a focus on Biographical Sketches and Current & Pending (Other) Support.

Subaward training

Subawards

Learn about sponsored projects with subawards and their administrative requirements.

Subrecipient invoice training

Subrecipient Monitoring and Invoice Review

Learn when subrecipient monitoring is required, the differences between a low and high-risk subrecipient and how to review a subrecipient invoice.

High-Risk Subrecipient Invoice Review

Learn the invoicing requirements for a high-risk subrecipient. This video will provide step by step instructions on how to review a high-risk invoice and the required supporting documentation.