Certify My Support Staff for PIs and Project Leads
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All faculty members and any non-faculty member, who is a Principal Investigator, must certify the sponsored effort
of his/her Support Staff. (Non-sponsored effort of Graduate Assistants is certified by Department Heads.)
 Login to My Akron. On the Faculty/Staff tab, click on
. Enter your UAnet id and password. In ecrt, click on the link Certify My Support Staff- Group
Click on the
In the Certified Effort column,
button if you
have completed fully any effort
card on the page.
Note: The “All” can be confusing.
The Certify All button will certify
only those support staff effort
statements that have a
checkmark in the Certify
Checkboxes column and have
100% of the effort (Sponsored and
Non-Sponsored) certified. The
effort statements without a
checkmark and without 100% effort
certified will remain on this page
until 100% of the individual’s effort
is accounted for and marked as
Certified.
After you Certify All, an Attestation
message displays for all completed
effort cards. Click on the OK button.
Note: If there are more supporting
individuals than can display on one
page, the next group of support
staff effort statements then will
display. You also may select a
page to display.
enter the percent of effort that
the supporting individual
worked for Sponsored
projects for which you are the
PI or Project Lead.
It is important to certify only
projects for which you are the
PI or Project Lead.
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Note: All percentages must be
entered as whole numbers or
to one decimal precision (e.g.
10 or 10.5).
! If the certified percentages
do not match the Computed
Effort percentages, a cost
transfer may be triggered.
On each page, click on the
button to save your
changes.
Click on each of the Certify
Checkboxes. The Certifier may
select which support individuals
are to be certifies at this time and
can mark only the boxes for those
individuals.