How to Review and Approve a Proposal

  1. Department reviewers receive an email when a funding proposal is submitted for review and approval prior to submission. Click on the link provided within the email to directly access the proposal.

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  2. The link provides access to the proposal鈥檚 main screen. Click View Funding Proposal at the left of the screen to open the content of the proposal.

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  3. The proposal will open as a series of data screens that can be accessed either by clicking Continue at the bottom of the screen, or using the Jump To Menu, which provides access to the individual 鈥減ages鈥 of the proposal.

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    1. FOA, funding guidelines, or any submission鈥恟elated sponsor documents can be accessed under General Submission Information.
    2. Proposal documents can be accessed under Project Plan Attachments.
    3. Budget鈥恟elated documents are located with the proposal budget, which can be accessed by clicking Exit at the top of the page, which will return to the main proposal screen. (See 4 below)
  4. To access budget information, from the main proposal screen, select the Budgets tab at the top of the screen.

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  5. Click on the sponsor budget name (5 above) to open the sponsor budget. Review the overall budget grid available on the budget page, or select Printer Version at the right to open the full budget.
  6. Review budget鈥恟elated documents (budget narrative/justification, BU鈥恟equired budget documents, cost鈥恠hare commitments) by selecting the Documents tab.

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  7. Return to the proposal record by selecting the proposal name from the 鈥渂readcrumb鈥 menu at the top of the screen (鈥淭BD鈥 in the example below).

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  8. Review Credit Distribution information by clicking Credit Distribution on the proposal record screen, and return to the proposal record by clicking OK.

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  9. Approve or disapprove the proposal by clicking Review Proposal on the proposal record screen. The proposal will proceed to the next stop in the routing hierarchy (additional departments, deans鈥 offices, etc).

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