Stay Connected and Work Remotely

Office 365

Web access to Outlook, OneDrive, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc
Microsoft Office online and Outlook web email are available through Office 365. Log in with your NID and NID password.

Microsoft Teams

Team collaboration and file sharing
Use teams for team collaboration, chat and file sharing. Log in with your NID and NID password.

Zoom

Zoom video conferencing for meetings and webinars
The university has a campus-wide license for Zoom, a video conferencing platform for online meetings, conferences, webinars, and lectures. If you prefer to continue holding your class at its scheduled time and lecture, try Zoom by visiting ucf.zoom.us and clicking "Sign In," using your NID.

Helpful Resources

1. NID help is available here: https://apps.research.ucf.edu/ssohelp.html
2. MS Teams help is available here: https://ucf.service-now.com/ucfit?id=kb_article&sys_id=28f31d654f564704128b022f0310c705
3. OneDrive FAQs are available here: https://ucf.service-now.com/ucfit?id=kb_article&sys_id=837827564f16fa005d3f7f75f110c7e6
4. Additional help on working remotely is available here:
https://ucf.service-now.com/ucfit?id=kb_article&sys_id=c00b93061bd704105cd6b912cd4bcbe3
5. Zoom helpful documentation is available here: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us. Support on using Zoom in WebCourses@UCF is available here: https://cdl.ucf.edu/support/webcourses/

Workday

Workday
Workday is the new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system that will replace PeopleSoft, the current ERP system in place, changing administrative processes across UCF. Workday provides a modern, unified system; simplified time management; standardized business processes; reporting with real-time data; cloud-based analytics and much more.

Adaptive Planning

Adaptive Planning
Workday Adaptive Planning is an enterprise cloud-based solution that provides a single consolidated source for collaborative planning, budgeting and reporting. It will serve as a pre-launch component for the Knight Vision program and supports the new UCF Budget Model Redesign Initiative.

Reporting Tools

To comply with Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Level 1 security requirements, you will need to be on the UCF network or use the VPN to access PARIS, AURORA, and PDA (Research Dashboard) starting October 1st.

Run research reports for UCF

A University Resources Online Reporting Application
AURORA is an enterprise web system which provides on-demand or subscription-based reports on funded research activity at UCF. Users can view reports on expenditures, new funding, and current burn rates among other reports, many of which are available at both aggregate and detailed levels.

Analyze research financials and located assets

Personal Access to Research Information System
PARIS is an enterprise web system that allows researchers, chairs, deans and administrators to view information regarding their research proposals, awards, budget and expenditures, deliverables and documents. The system also provides information about research equipment valued at $10K or above at UCF.

Research Dashboard

Research Dashboard
The research dashboard shows key metrics about UCF in regards to research awards, expenditures, patents and other research activities. Also, the research dashboard provides a percentage comparison for each metric allowing the user to quickly see how a particular area is operating to the previous fiscal year.

Scholar Expertise Portal

Scholar Expertise Portal
The UCF discovery dashboard combines Academic Analytics' accurate and comprehensive scholarly activity data with the university's own warehoused data to create a modern, configurable, fully pre-populated website that showcases research and researchers at the faculty, program, division, and cost center level.

Huron Research Suite

Huron Grants

Huron Grants
Huron Grants is a comprehensive solution for proposal submission and award management. The system ensures successful proposal creation and budget development, electronic submission to grants.gov, and post-award management capabilities include award setup, modification entry, and budget reconciliation to enter and track sponsor approved budgets.

Huron Agreements

Huron Agreements
Huron Agreement provides management of financial and non-financial research agreements.

Huron IRB: Institutional Review Board Submission and Approval

Huron IRB
Huron IRB facilitates high-quality, compliant reviews for research studies involving human subjects. The application combines compliant IRB operating practices from the HRPP Toolkit with human research protection best practices.

Huron IACUC

Huron IACUC
Huron IACUC facilitates high-quality, compliant reviews for research studies involving the care or use of animals. The system provides access to species, procedures, substances, training information and inspections to facilitate the submission and review process.

Effort reporting & certification

Effort Reporting and Certification
This enterprise web system facilitates UCF's effort reporting and certification process in compliance with UCF's effort reporting policies, federal policy OMB Circular A-21 section J.10., NIH Salary Limitation on Grants, and other policies that govern the need to provide certification of an individual's sponsored or non-sponsored effort.

Huron Safety

Huron Safety
Huron Safety is a comprehensive solution that supports the Institutional Biosafety Office and Committee. It supports the submission of safety protocols, thorough review cycles, the ability to carry out continuing reviews, a complete amendment process, a full suite of reports, and integration with other solutions in the Huron Research Suite.

Huron COI

Huron COI
Huron COI streamlines the disclosure process for potential conflicts of interest. The system integrates annual disclosure data with related research certifications to ensure transparency and track compliance.

Research Development & Training

Discover global funding opportunities

Pivot
ProQuest Pivot (R) is a comprehensive database for finding funding opportunities from International, Federal, State and Private sponsors, uniquely matched to researchers' expertise. Researchers can save searches and receive weekly updates of new matched opportunities.

Limited Submissions and Internal Programs Submission portal

InfoReady
UCF InfoReady is a support software to apply to limited submissions and internal programs. It can be easily accessed via single sign-on and features a user-friendly homepage that lists all active opportunities and provides a convenient submission deadline calendar.

Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative

Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative
The CITI Program at the University of Miami provides web-based training materials to serve millions of learners at academic institutions, government agencies, and commercial organizations in the U.S. and around the world. CITI provides educational training content that promotes the quality of and public trust in the research enterprise.

Contract and Document Management

To comply with Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Level 1 security requirements, you will need to be on the UCF network or use the VPN to access TERA starting October 1st.

Manage and review contracts submitted to Office of General Counsel

CobbleStone Systems
CobbleStone is a cloud software solution that allows any university employee to submit a contract that requires legal review from one of the four legal offices. The system allows the legal office to gather internal approvals and secure signatures to execute agreements and allows the submitter to monitor their contract's progression during the review lifecycle.

ORC repository for research-related documents

The Electronic Research Archive
TERA is a web system provides a digital repository for electronic documents that pertain to sponsored research projects or Research Foundation. The TERA documents for a research project can be accessed by the researchers and research administrators in PARIS.

Other Research Administration

Manage research and IP from proposal to commercialization

Academic Research & Grants Information System
ARGIS is a web-based enterprise system which provides users direct access to the information needed for managing funded research. The system tracks proposals, funding, licenses, and other agreements. The system also allows users to report and document hazards and conflicts of interest that impact compliance requirements.

Disclose and review potential conflicts of interest

Conflict of Interest & Commitment System
The Conflict of Interest & Commitment System provides information regarding UCF's policies and allows the submission and review of disclosure statements relating to conflict of interest and commitment on research activity

myresearch

eFacilities and Administrative Cost System

eFacilities and Administrative Cost System
Huron's efacs® system provides a flexible web-based cost system for the calculation and negotiation of the facilities and administrative (F&A) rates. The data models available and created within efacs are used by UCF sponsored research to determine the appropriate F&A rate to be applied on all university research facilities.

iThenticate is an online plagiarism detection software

iThenticate
iThenticate is an online plagiarism detection software tool that makes it easier to recognize inadvertent plagiarism. Faculty can compare documents (i.e. proposals, manuscripts, dissertations/thesis, journals) against a database of web pages and content items including published works. iThenticate is not a repository and is not intended for student coursework, papers, or exams.

Manage IP from disclosure stage to commercialization

Sophia
The Sophia database from Wellspring is used by the Technology Transfer Office to manage invention disclosures, intellectual property filings, technology promotion, and license agreements.

Disclose and review potential conflicts of interest

Find opportunities; submit and review white papers

Internal Opportunities
The Internal Opportunities site includes information about Limited Submission opportunities from federal, state, and private programs, and UCF Internal Programs (seed funds, matched funds) facilitated through the Office of Research & Commercialization (ORC).