Current Release
February 2015: Release 6.0
Kuali Coeus 6.0 is the first of several releases designed to provide a new and intuitive
User Experience (UX).
Specific Features include:
• Re-organized and intuitive data entry.
• Left hand navigation and 'Save and Continue' options for linear navigation through
the system. No more 'where do I go next'?
• Quick access to tools: validation, print, copy, medusa, hierarchy management, and
budget version management functions are always one-click away in a Proposal
Development Document.
• Search while you type for several frequently entered data fields.
• Modal-based user interactions that provide context and continuity while performing
lookups and entering large amounts of data.
• Drag and drop capabilities for file attachments allow users to upload and manage
multiple files at one time.
• Detailed Budget Summary information is available from the Proposal, without
opening a full budget.
• Budget navigation improvements focus users on fast expense allocation instead of
setup and maintenance.
Kuali Rice 2.5.2 will be available for download soon and is required for running KC
6.0. Kuali Rice 2.5.2 includes numerous performance improvements, bug fixes, and
enhancements to the KRAD framework.
Previous Releases
May 2014: Release 5.2.1
• Functional Equivalence: FDP boilerplate subaward forms
• Functional Equivalence: System-to-System form extractor tool
• Functional Equivalence: New KRMS functions
• Bug fixes
January 2014: Release 5.2
▪ IACUC: improved design for species and procedures screens
▪ Functional Equivalence: FE items for proposal and IACUC
▪ Improved support for Java 7
Bug fixes
Release 5.1.1: July 2013
 Bug fixes and additional features to the Conflict of Interest (COI) module to meet
functional equivalence with Coeus, including screening questions, enhanced
lookups, additional disclosure statuses and functions for COI administrators
 Bug fixes to other KC modules
 Upgrade to Rice 2.1.7
Release 5.1: April 2013
 Usability “quick wins”, including display of a progress indicator while loading KC
pages, addition of a warning message to the Reload button, and several UI
improvements to Proposal Development
 Subaward budgeting in Proposal Development
 Recall routing in the IRB and Proposal Development modules
 Initial integration of BIRT reports
 Enhancement to preserve notifications for audit/regulatory needs in IRB, IACUC,
COI, and Negotiations
 Upgrade to Rice 2.1.5
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August 2012: Release 5.0.1
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Critical Bug Fixes
*KRMS/S2S
*Proposal Development schemas for printing
*Report Tracking PI print
*KRMS Stored Procedure Converstion
IACUC - remaining actions, procedures, summary & history, action
correspondence
Release 5.0: June 1, 2012
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Numerous functional equivalency (FE) enhancements and bug fixes for
previously released modules – Proposal Development, Budget Development,
Grants.gov System-to-System submission, Proposal Hierarchy, Institutional
Proposal, Awards, Institutional Review Board (IRB), and KFS Integration.
Completion of QA and bug fixes to new modules introduced in the KC 3.2
internal release – Conflict of Interest (COI), Subawards, Negotiations, and Report
Tracking.
The newest additions to KC – Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
(IACUC) module and Kuali Rules Management System (KRMS) integration.
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Compatibility with Kuali Rice 2.1, the latest version of the Kuali middleware.
4.0 Internal Release March 2012
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Rice 2.0 Compatible
FE Features
Conflict of Interest
Subawards
Negotiations
Report Tracking
3.2 Internal Release December 2011
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Complete IRB Catch-UP
*Conflict of Interest
*Subawards
*Negotiations
*Report Tracking
(*Preview of new modules prior to full QA)
3.1.1 September 2011
KFS-KC Integration to support:
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Account Inquiry and Creation
Budget Adjustment
Effort Certification
CFDA number integration
3.1 July 2011
KC 3.1 includes new functionality for all modules in current release – notably,
integration between the IRB, Proposal Development, Institutional Proposal, and Awards
modules.
The Proposal/Budget Development module, introduced with release 1.0 in 2008, adds
valuable functionality, including:
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Questionnaire for investigator certification and for the PHS398 Research Training
Budget
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Fourteen new Grants.gov forms, including forms for the PHS398 Fellowship and
Training Grants, Career Development Awards, and R&R Subaward Budgets
Features to delete abandoned proposals, add attachments to a proposal enroute
or rejected, add notes to a proposal enroute or in final status, and improvements
in the Current & Pending Support reports
Proposal Budgets now include cost sharing period flexibility and the ability to
display Version Comments on budget reports
The IRB module, which included protocol, committee, and review functions in KC 3.0,
adds these great features:
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Enhanced Online Review, including improved review comment management,
institutional configuration to set visibility of reviewer identity, and improved
workflow and business process for reviewer assignment and submission
More features for Questionnaire, including versioning and inactivation of
questions and questionnaires, ability to associate questionnaires with
amendments and protocol actions, and questionnaire printing
The IRB module also includes refactored print functionality, improved processes
for returning protocols to researcher, multi-campus support through committee
assignment in unit hierarchy, sorting and filtering of protocol attachments, and
much more.
The Award module, initially released in KC 2.0, has a host of new features:
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“Sync descendants” offers the ability to copy information from the parent award
into selected descendant “child” awards.
The Award Budget includes the budget limits panel, direct costs limits and sync
to direct cost limits to help manage the approved award budgets.
The Time & Money document now allows for direct & F&A costs breakdown, a
transaction panel for single node awards, and improvements to the History and
Action Summary.
The Award module also includes cost sharing period flexibility, Award Credit
Split, Payment Schedule generation, and improvements to the print engine and
sponsor templates.
3.0 November 2010
Initial Release of IRB module
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Create/amend/renew submit IRB protocols
Protocol status changes
Create & maintain IRB committees
Generate minutes, schedules, agendas
Online protocol review
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Correspondence & Notifications
Custom Questionnaires
2.0 April 2010
Initial release of Award module
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Create and maintain sponsored awards, including award budgets, reporting
requirements, invoicing and payment schedules, award terms and conditions,
and other award details
Create and maintain complex award hierarchies to show relationships between
parent and children awards
Link submitted proposals to awards with Institutional Proposal and Proposal Log
Create and maintain complex proposal hierarchies so that individually routed
and created proposals can be linked together for aggregate submissions
1.1.1 April 2009
Bug fixes for Proposal/Budget development, Grants.gov S2S
1.1 November 2008
Enhanced budget user interface
1.0 July 2008
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Proposal and Budget Development
o Proposal and Budget creation, with robust calculations
o Institutional rates and hierarchies
o Template proposals to use again
o Proposal Routing and Approval using Workflow
Grants.gov S2S submission
o Find Grants.gov opportunities
o Submit without Adobe forms for the majority of applications
o Print Sponsor Forms