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Weekly Training Webinars: Application Submission

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Session TopicApplication Mechanics: Submitting an Application
Key Audiences

Entity Administrator, Application Submitter, Authorized Representative

Description

Topics covered in this session include:

  • Preparing to apply
  • Completing required forms in Grants.gov
  • Entity onboarding and JustGrants access
  • JustGrants roles and responsibilities
  • Assigning users to applications
  • Completing, reviewing, certifying, and submitting a JustGrants application
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Weekly Training Webinars: Entity Management

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Session TopicEntity Management
Key AudiencesEntity Administrators
Description

Topics covered in this session include:

  • JustGrants roles and responsibilities 
  • JustGrants user management
    • Adding users, assigning roles, and confirming that accounts are successfully created
    • Assigning and reassigning users to applications and awards
    • Maintaining the entity profile and entity documents 
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Weekly Training Webinars: Award Management

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Session TopicPost-Award Management
Key AudiencesGrant Award Administrators, Entity Administrators, Financial Managers
Description

Topics covered in this session include:

  • Ongoing award management
    • User assignments and reassignments
    • Attaching documents
  • Performance reporting and deliverables
  • Grant Award Modifications (GAMs)
  • Submitting federal financial reports
  • Completing award closeouts
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Weekly Training Webinars: Grant Award Acceptance

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Session TopicAward Acceptance
Key Audiences

Entity Administrators, Authorized Representatives

Description

Topics covered in this session include:

  • New award notifications
  • Two-step process to review and accept (or decline) an award
  • Common questions about the process
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JustGrants Application Mechanics: Submitting an Application Training

March 2023

JustGrants is the U.S. Department of Justice’s grants management system. The JustGrants team is offering a recurring “Application Mechanics: Submitting an Application” webinar to provide targeted assistance to potential applicants applying for DOJ funding opportunities. This webinar’s targeted audience includes individuals with Entity Administrator, Application Submitter and/or Authorized Representative(s) in JustGrants. The webinar covers the following topics:

  • Preparing to apply
  • Completing the abbreviated application in Grants.gov
  • Entity onboarding and JustGrants access
  • JustGrants roles and responsibilities
  • Assigning users’ roles to applications
  • Completing, reviewing, certifying and submitting a JustGrants application
  • Attendee questions about application submission

Video run time: 1 hour 1 min. 31 sec.

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JustGrants Award Acceptance Virtual Q&A Session

April 2022

This Virtual Q&A Session is targeted to those JustGrants users with Entity Administrator or Authorized Representative roles and covers the following topics:

  • Determining when award acceptance occurs
  • Identifying which roles are involved in the award acceptance process
  • A demonstration of the process of accepting or declining an award
  • Common problems when accepting or declining an award, and how to mitigate them
  • Attendee questions about award acceptance

Video run time: 38 min. 41 sec. View the Presentation.

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Roles

Roles determine the access a user is granted in a system.

JustGrants

  • For an overview of the six foundational roles in JustGrants, view term Entity User Roles.
  • In JustGrants, users may be granted multiple entity user roles depending on the tasks they perform.

ASAP

  • For an overview of user roles in ASAP, view term ASAP User Roles.
  • In ASAP, the POC can fill all of the roles, assign multiple roles to one person, or assign each role to a different person.

Grants.gov

For a list of user role terms for JustGrants, ASAP, and Grants.gov enter search criteria title: Role.

Manual Tags
ASAP user roles
Grant management roles
Grants.gov (website)
Entity users
JustGrants
ASAP user roles Grant management roles Grants.gov (website) Entity users JustGrants

Glossary of Terms

The glossary provides information about words and terms associated with JustGrants, DOJ’s grants management system. The terms are listed in alphabetical order.

To search for a term, enter the word/term you are seeking in the search filter. To clear the search filter, delete the existing term and select Apply.

Training: Weekly Training Webinars

The JustGrants team facilitates weekly sessions providing an opportunity for users to receive topic-specific training, direct technical assistance and support on JustGrants system functionality.

Training: Closeout

Key Audience: Grant Award Administrator

In order to complete a closeout, entities must submit the final financial, performance, and other reports required under the grant, and meet award conditions, within 120 days after the grant award expires or is terminated.

The following training materials describe how the Grant Award Administrator submits an award closeout in JustGrants. These materials will teach users how to:

  • Select the...

Training: Monitoring

Key Audience: Grant Award Administrator

JustGrants allows users to see open desk reviews, audits, and in-depth monitoring cases for an Entity. You may access information on monitoring visits and any outstanding issues for resolution from previous visits.
 

The new Monitoring Job Aid Reference Guide helps users navigate the JustGrants software as they move through grants functions. The Department of Justice's  proactive monitoring...

Training: Performance Reporting

Key Audience: Grant Award Administrator

Addressing Performance Management in JustGrants

The goal for performance management in JustGrants is to create reporting functionality that allows for –

  • Data collection to occur in one location;
  • Progress reporting to be collected in tandem with performance data for effective program review and management; and
  • Enhanced capabilities to access and use performance data.

The roll-out of performance management features in...

Training: Financial Reporting

Key Audience: Financial Manager

The following training materials will help Financial Managers submit a Federal Financial Report (FFR) and provide additional information on financial reporting.
 

In this eLearning video, you will learn:

  • How to locate and understand the reporting periods and due dates
  • Steps for submitting an FFR
  • Editing and resubmitting a Quarterly FFR
JustGrants Financial Reporting; Video run time: 6:41 min.

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Training: Grant Award Modifications

Key Audience: Grant Award Administrator

The purpose of a Grant Award Modification (GAM) is to update award details, modifying key facts or details about the award. JustGrants focuses on true modifications to an award and in the following training materials, a Grant Award Administrator will learn how to create the three types of GAMs – Project Period Extension, Programmatic, and Financial.

Specifically, the eLearning videos...