Tips: October 26, 2018

SPARCS Tips

The following are this week's tips on using SPARCS - 

• SPARCS Submitting Department Workflow List: First of all, we want to say thank you to many of you who responded to our request to certify the college/department workflow process! During this process we were able to update the layout of the SPARCS Submitting Department Workflow. You can find the regular updates on the SPARCS Documentation and Training page for Proposal and Awards. 
  * SPARCS Submitting Department Workflow is a list of the individuals listed as Business Managers, Department Approvers (steps 1 & 2), and OSP Specialists for each organization that is listed as a submitting department within SPARCS.
• COMING SOON!!! Ancillary Approver System Role: The implementation of the Ancillary Review activity has generated a lot of feedback from our users (THANK YOU!). Based upon your feedback we have identified a few ways that we can improve proposal access. Over the next few weeks, we will be reaching out to departments to work with us to add an individual to the new Ancillary Approver role to all organizations that could be listed as an impacted department. This will allow departments to identify a specific person to perform this activity rather than everyone in the workflow. We will begin this process similar to the annual workflow certifications, be on the lookout for our email with more detailed information.

Do you have an item/topic you would like discussed in these monthly emails? Is there an area where you would benefit from additional training? Let us know! Please contact the SPARCS Help Desk should you have any questions or feedback on the system.