<p>NIH eRA eSubmission Items of Interest</p><p>Introducing the eRA Training Page</p><p>In order to make your experience with the eRA system easier, NIH has developed a new eRA Training page with training and communication tools including web-based tutorials, presentations and informational sheets. The eRA Training page consolidates resources from various locations across the eRA website into one unified page, providing access to resources for eRA Commons, Internet Assisted Review (IAR), and xTrain.</p><p>How does it work? Clicking on each icon provides access to numerous PowerPoint presentations, Web-based tutorials, Quick Reference Sheets, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and other information that was previously located throughout the eRA website. You may also access the training page directly from the right navigation panel of the eRA website. These changes have been designed to provide you with resources quickly and easily…we encourage you to take a moment to explore the new page.</p><p>Multi-Project Applications and ASSIST</p><p>In 2005, the Office of Extramural Research (OER) started the process of accepting grant applications electronically. Today, nearly all aspects of grant application and grant management happen electronically through Grants.gov and eRA Commons. The final major pieces of the submission puzzle are these complex or multi-project applications, which are still submitted by paper.</p><p>Later this fall, eRA will be piloting a new system called ASSIST, which stands for Application Submission System & Interface for Submission Tracking. </p><p>ASSIST is a web-based system that allows applicants to: </p><p> Initiate an application  Set access controls for various parts of the application  Run a complete check against NIH business rules to figure out errors before submission  View an application image before submitting to Grants.gov The goal is to transition all activity codes to electronic submission by January of 2014. For more details on the transition to electronic submission of multi-project applications, please see: Guide Notice NOT-OD-12-161.</p><p>Your Guide to Success</p><p>NIH provides numerous user guides to ensure a successful proposal submission experience; listed below are some of the most popular ones. We encourage you to review and utilize these guides. If you have additional questions, please contact your Contracts and Grants Officer.</p><p> RPPR Instruction Guide - 10/15/12 </p><p> Financial Conflict of Interest (FCOI) User Guide - 09/19/12</p><p> Change of Institution User Guide (PDF - 2 KB) - 04/20/12</p><p> eRA Commons Administrative Supplement User Guide - 02/09/12</p><p> eRA Commons User Guide - 01/24/12</p><p> eSNAP User Guide – 5/3/12</p><p> xTrain User Guide – 5/9/11</p><p> Federal Financial Report User Guide – 2/16/11</p><p> Account Management System (AMS) User Guide - 10/07/11</p>