UIS's Jordan Wight Shares Best Practices for Using and Configuring InfoEd's Research Administration Tools

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InfoEd, the vendor of CU's electronic Research Administration (eRA) applications, provides the suite of tools that supports CU's management of sponsored research, including proposal development, human subjects, conflict of interest tracking and more. At InfoEd's 2015 annual User Group Meeting (UGM), University Information Systems' (UIS) Jordan Wight, eRA Technical Lead, will co-present several sessions that spread CU's practices and configuration tips and tricks to the vendor's client community.

In collaboration with Cheri Vonfeldt, IT Senior Professional in University of Colorado Denver's Office of Grants and Contracts (OGC), Wight will share CU's practices on the functional usage of InfoEd's Human Subjects module, as well as the optimum configuration for a higher education environment. Also with Vonfeldt, he will present practices in system verification methods following a system upgrade. Wight is participating in a session with Marina Durbin, UIS's eRA Business Technical/Analyst, which introduces an automated methodology for repetitive system testing tasks. In some sessions, practitioners from other universities also share their practices.

Of the sessions he is participating in, Wight's favorite is his presentation about best practices using XSLTs. In this session, Wight demonstrates how CU uses Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) to customize the display of InfoEd's Enable portal. XSLT also allows administrators to add new functionality to the portal to meet each client institution's unique needs. This presentation gets the top spot because XSLT coding is a little-used out-of-the box configuration feature that provides a high degree of flexibility to InfoEd administrators to configure the tool in the way that is most efficient for their users. Read more about Wight's sessions.

Want to learn more about CU's involvement in UGM? Check out UIS News on the UIS home page. Want to learn more about research administration at CU? Access campus research departments.