Good News from the Front Line
We’d like to introduce the OSCARs…OBI Successes, Champions, Awards and Recognition.
It’s about sharing good news with the OBI Community. It’s about acknowledging the wins—big and small, that OBI users have achieved. It’s about recognizing contributions from those who improve user understanding, engagement and adoption of the OBI dashboards. Here are some examples:
“The report [OBI dashboard] came back in an instant.”—FAS Grants Manager
“I am loving the flexibility of these reports to add columns, etc. It’s great!”—Radcliffe Finance User
“The experience was substantially better than what I’m used to with CREW.”—OSP Research Finance Manager
Read the full story for each quote listed above. Even better, submit a story and share the good news.
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IMPORTANT REMINDER: CREW Grants Management reports are planned to be decommissioned on November 1st 2016. |
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At that time, these CREW reports will be disabled and OBI will be the sole source for this information. During the transition period through the end of October, the Grants Management reports will be available in both CREW and OBI. |
Grants Management Dashboards--The Printable PDF is here
The Printable Grants Financial dashboard is now available for wider use. This dashboard provides information that can be found in the Current and Historical Grants Financial dashboards and presents it in a format similar to the PER. Grants Financials dashboard users may find it helpful to review the PER and the printable dashboard together in order to become more familiar with the content of the new dashboard. Currently, the Printable Grants Financial dashboard can only be run one fund at a time.
Grants Management Dashboards –Training
End user training sessions have begun and will continue through October. The instructor-led course is being taught by a team of individuals representing a variety of schools and the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP). Key References for More Information:
- Additional details about training content are posted on the Office for Sponsored Projects website.
- Exact dates and locations of training, can be found on the OBI Grants training calendar.
- If you have questions, reach out to your Engagement Councils or your LIM (Local Implementation Manager.
- Please remember that if you are new to OBI, you will need to take the general OBI Tools Training before you can attend the OBI Grants training.
Tips and Tricks:
We’d like to remind everyone to use Mozilla Firefox with OBI dashboards. Firefox is the preferred browser, so it should offer the best experience in terms of running OBI dashboards. You may want to consider setting Firefox as the default browser by following these simple instructions.