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GO Smart Knowledge Base
Admin Resources
- Optional GO Smart Modules
- Preparing Your Applicant Portal
- Naming Convention Guide
- Build and Launch Your Initial Program and Grant Cycle
- Build and Launch Your Next Cycle in an Existing Program
- Build and Launch Your Next Program
- Build and Launch Your Interim and Final Reports
- Media Library Tools
- Flexible Form (Invoices, Reimbursements, Quarterly Reports, etc)
- Statuses and Workflows
- Testing and Previewing Your Cycle
- Format Using the Text Editor Tools
- Link Applicants to a File on your GO Smart Server
- Understand the Read-only Preview Forms
- Set the Order in Which Your Active Cycles are Viewed by Applicants
State Arts Agencies:
- Home Message – Craft the Welcome Language for Your Homepage
- Branding – Logo
- Profile Editor – Customize Your Applicant’s Profile Registration Form
- Media Library Module – Setting Up Your Applicants’ Media Library
- Navigation Editor – Create Additional Resource Pages
- Format Using the Text Editor Tools (aka CKEditor)
- Link Applicants to a File on Your GO Smart Server
Learn
- Preview Your Page
- GO Smart Grant Application Lingo
- Programs
- Program Cycles
- Program Cycles – Understanding the Fields
- Cycle Pages – Forms, Pages, and Questions
- Cycle Pages – Page Types
- Cycle Pages – Add Questions and Information to a Custom Narrative Page or Intent to Apply
- Cycle Pages – Multiple Submission
- Cycle Pages – Conditional Logic
- Status Mailer – Create Auto-Generated Emails
- Interim and Final Reports
- Format Using the Text Editor Tools (aka CKEditor)
- Link Applicants to a File on Your GO Smart Server
- Testing and Previewing Your New Cycle
Build
- Media Library Tools
- Media Library Module – Set up your applicant’s Work Samples Bank
- Media Library Selection Page
- Media Library Selection Page Suggested Info/Instruction Language
- Media Request Using a Custom Narrative Page
- Convert Attachment URL to Links in Custom Reports
- Detach Media from a Media Library Selection Page
- Uncommit Media in the Media Library
- Audio and Video Upload Conversion Behavior
- WEBINAR: Media Tools Enhancement 2020
- Media Options 2020 Slideshow
- Step-by-step Tutorials (PDF) updated 2023
- Step-by-step Tutorials (Word, ideal for customizing for your site), updated 2023
- Video Tutorials (outdated, updates coming soon)
Additional Tutorials:
Need more help?
Webinars, Videos, and Announcements
- Transform Your Workflow: GO Smart’s New Grant Manager Dashboard
- Empower Your Organization with GO Smart
- 5 Tips for Simplifying Your Grantmaking Process
- UI and Accessibility Updates March 2023
- NEA Tools Update 2023
- Conditional Logic Webinar January 2023
- Multiple Submissions Webinar March 2022
- Introduction to the Multiple Submission Tool 2022
- Media Tools Enhancement 2020
- Media Options Slideshow 2020
- Administrative Portal Dashboard Redesign 2020
- Using the Text Editor in Text Fields (aka CKEditor)
- NEA Tools and Reports Video, Slideshow
- Launch Your Grant Cycle, Slideshow
- Sub Cycles and Flexible Forms, Slideshow
- Panel Process Review Webinar, Slideshow
- Finalize Your Grant Opportunity Webinar, Slideshow
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