What is xTRACT?

Extramural Trainee Reporting and Career Tracking (xTRACT) is a module within eRA Commons used by applicants, grantees, and assistants to create research training tables for inclusion in progress reports and institutional training grant applications.

Because xTRACT is integrated with Commons, it is able to use xTrain appointment and related data to pre-populate some training data for training tables and reports. This includes data related to trainee names, selected characteristics, institutions, grant numbers, and subsequent NIH and other HHS awards. xTRACT also allows manual entry of data not found in Commons or xTrain. Manually entered information is stored in xTRACT and can be re-used when preparing subsequent training table submissions.

If you are a Signing Official (SO), Administrative Official (AO), Business Official (BO), Principal Investigator (PI), or assistant (ASST) in Commons, you have access to the xTRACT module.

This online help does not contain field by field help; for field level help, see the Training Data Tables Instructions here:

IMPORTANT: xTRACT is a tool for creating training tables. Tables generated in xTRACT must be attached to and submitted with the appropriate progress report or application. There is no Submit feature in xTRACT.

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Advance Notice of Transition to the xTRACT System for Preparing Research Training Data Tables - NOT-OD-18-133

NIH & AHRQ Announce Transition to New Research Training Table Formats for 2016 and Upcoming Release of the xTRACT System - NOT-OD-16-007