As announced previously, the Effort Reporting System (ERS) was retired effective June 30, 2022. The last effort reporting certification cycle at UCSF was completed in August 2020 for the period of January 1 through May 2, 2020. All effort reports, including related certification activity through June 30, 2022, have been archived.
Certification for the few remaining outstanding effort reports will now need to be handled manually outside of ERS. The Contracts and Grants Compliance team will provide instructions on how to manually certify an effort report to impacted departments.
Effort Reporting and ERS were replaced in April 2021 with award verification. To comply with University and Federal guidelines and policies, Award Principal Investigators must verify the expenses for each of their sponsored awards at least quarterly using the Award Verification Tool. If you have questions about the effort reporting or the award verification process, contact Contracts and Grants Compliance.