Proposal Review

Proposal Submission

In order to submit a grant proposal for review by OSPRA, please observe the following instructions:

Sakai Overview

Sakai is the University of Detroit Mercy's group collaboration site. All administrative staff and faculty already have an account on the system available to them via LDAP authentication. OSPRA utilizes Sakai in order to facilitate their work at the university and to communicate with interested parties.

Accessing OSPRA

After logging in to Sakai, you will need to locate the OSPRA site in order to upload your proposal. You can find it by clicking the menu link on the left side of the screen titled "Membership." You will then be presented with a list of sites that you are currently a member of. Click the "Joinable Sites" link at the top of the Membership window and locate the "Grants" worksite, which is OSPRA's Sakai site.

Click the "Join" link to become a member of OSPRA's "Grants" workspace.

Adding your proposal

Now that you are a member of the OSPRA site, you should see a "Grants" link on the blue horizontal bar that runs across the top of your screen below the Sakai logo. This navigation bar also contains your "My Workspace" link.

In order to utilize the menu links within the OSPRA workspace, click the "Grants" link in the navigation bar. The menu that runs down the left hand side of your page now reflects the tools available to you from within the "Grants" workspace.

In order to add your proposal to the OSPRA Sakai group, click the "Drop Box" link the on the left to enter the Drop Box tool window. You will see a folder titled "Grants" and to the right, an "Add" link. Click "Add" to access the Add Item tool.

There are a number of options on this page but all are fairly self-explanatory. The following 5 steps will walk you through the process of uploading your grant proposal into OSPRA's

Select the number of files that you wish to upload.
Select the file by using the "Browse" button.
Verify the title of your file and add a short description if you wish.
Verify your copyright.
Click the "Add" button.

You should now see your file under the "Grants" folder in the Drop Box tool window.

Note: All proposals that are submitted are considered confidential and are both inaccessible and non-viewable by anyone other than the submitter and OSPRA.

Follow up

Upon receiving your proposal, it will be reviewed by OSPRA and you will be contacted at a later time regarding its status.

In addition, it is important that you submit the original, signed Internal Summary forms (pages 3 and 4) to OSPRA. Please note, proposals will not be submitted to the Vice President and Provost for review until the original, signed Internal Summary forms are received by OSPRA.

Logging in to Sakai

NOTE: You may wish to print these instructions before proceeding to the Sakai site

To login to Sakai, open a web browser and type the following URL into the address bar:

https://sakai.udmercy.edu

Note: If you are having difficulty logging in, you may need your LDAP password re-synchronized. Please contact UDM's help desk at 3*1500 for assistance.

After accepting the SSL certificate and reaching the Sakai home page, enter your email username and password into the form at the top of the page. If you are successful, you will be presented with your own Sakai workspace titled "My Workspace."

Resources

For a more thorough, comprehensive Sakai tutorial, including explanations for many of the tools available, download the UDM-Sakai One Sheet authored by ITS Web Services.