Cayuse 101

Cayuse is the web-based front end for submission of proposals to Grants.gov and also allows submission to NSF through Research.gov as an alternative to Fastlane. All Grants.gov submissions are required to be entered through Cayuse. It allows proposals to be created, reviewed, approved and/or submitted to federal agencies. Cayuse runs reviews on the content that is uploaded and provides error messages if there are missing sections.

Talk with your grants manager to clarify who will start your proposal so that there aren’t multiple copies of the same proposal in Cayuse. You as the PI can upload content into the sections or send content to your grants manager so that they can upload content for you. The PI should review all uploaded content before the submission occurs.

Accessing Cayuse

If you haven’t accessed Cayuse before, go to http://osp.osu.edu/ and click on Cayuse424 under the eTools section. Your username is your name.# but you will have to create a new password because Cayuse is outside of OSU – in the gray box the first entry says: First time signing in and need a password? Click on that and you will create a password. If you have any question after that you will need to contact the orhelpdesk@osu.edu.

Resources

Cayuse 424 User Reference Manual

Cayuse 101 Webinar Recording (30 minutes)