Certify My Effort
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 Login to My Akron. Click on the Faculty/Staff tab. In the School Services frame, click on the
Review the data in the Payroll, Cost
For Non Sponsored
Share, and Computed Effort columns.
Payroll + CostShare = Computed Effort
Check the Period of Performance
dates. The dates should be those of
a prior term.
In the Certified Effort column, enter
the percent of total effort worked for
Sponsored and Non-Sponsored
Projects. Data must be entered as a
whole number or to one decimal
precision (i.e. 10 or 10.5).
Note: Total Effort must equal 100.0.
After entering the
percent of total effort
for your NonSponsored activities,
click on the Activity
Codes
! If the certified percentages do not
match the Computed Effort
percentages, a cost transfer may be
triggered.
icon.
See the next page for
details on how to add
Activity Codes for
non-sponsored time.
Click on the link, Certify/
View My Effort.
Username (uanet id) and Password. Login.
Activity, you must
breakdown the time
spent. You will not be
able to certify your
efforts until you enter
the activities for your
non-sponsored time.
button. Enter
Enter a note here to explain an unusual or erroneous card.
Click on each of the Certify Checkboxes.
Press the Certify button.
After you Certify, the Attestation Statement displays. Click on the OK button.
A second message displays, click on OK and wait
until the home page is displayed.
Step
Continued: Adding Activity Codes for Non-Sponsored Activity
Click on the Activity Codes
icon under the Non-Sponsored section
of the effort statement. The Add Activity Codes window displays
 In the “Type memo here” field, enter a brief description for this
type of Activity. This field is required for ABIA related Activity
and for Grad Assistants’ Activity.
In the last field, enter a percentage for this type
Note: Activity Lines
must equal this
percentage. This is the
percentage that you
entered for your total
non-sponsored time.
of Activity. Data must be entered as a whole
number or to one decimal precision (i.e. 10 or
10.5).
NOTE: Activity lines must equal the percentage
of time allocated to Non Sponsored Activity.
If necessary, add additional Activity lines (to equal
Click on the Add
Activity Line button.
For definitions of the Activity Codes and the
corresponding categories of workload based on
UA faculty workload policy (University Rule
3359-20-03.2), see the PDF document
“Introduction to ecrt” at
Non-Sponsored Effort total) by clicking on the Add Activity
Line button, again.
https://editor2.uakron.edu/pages/its/learning/training/
ecrt.php .
In the first drop down field, select an Activity from the list.
As you enter Activity Codes, the percentage will
update. When your Activity reaches the total
percentage for Non Sponsored Activities, the
number will change to green.
Click on the
button. Continue with Step 7 on
the reverse side of this page.