The IACUC Coordinator may choose to review the protocol prior to submitting it for review, or after.
To review a protocol from the IACUC workflow page, click on IACUC Review.
The Review pane displays in the top right-hand corner of the protocol form. Click the tabs to expand the pane.
Tabs
- Synopsis: Available for the Primary reviewer to add a synopsis.
- Workflow: Return to the IACUC Workflow page.
- Office Notes: Displays Designated reviewer’s comments as well as IACUC coordinator merged comments. All previous revision comments are available for viewing here.
- View Changes: Displays the previous contents of the field and current changes made by the PI.
- Review Notes: Shows all comments made by the reviewers. IACUC coordinator can also add comments and merge comments. Only merged comments and Designated Reviewer comments are viewable to the PI.
Adding Comments
Click on the Review Notes tab to enter comments. You can also click on a Text or Word editor field to enable the review pane.
Enter your notes in the Reviewer Notes section and click Save
All IACUC review notes are automatically displayed in the Office Notes tab. Each revision is identified by its Review Number. When IACUC merges all of the reviewer’s comments, they also display on this tab. The PI sees only the notes found in the Office Notes tab.
You can view all of the revision notes regardless of the current revision. The Revision Number is automatically updated when the PI submits the protocol to the IACUC office.
Adding Footnotes
Reviewers can add footnotes in text fields or word editor fields by clicking on the field in the protocol form to enable the Changes tab in the Review pane. This is useful when reviewers need to reference an exact location in the text.
To add a footnote comment, click the Add Comment button, then click in the location of the text needed to reference, and add your comments in the Reviewers Notes section.
View Changes
The Changes tab displays what the PI changed. The items crossed out in red indicate what was removed. The underlined text highlighted in green reflect the new text.
Merging Comments
When all reviewers’ comments are returned to the IACUC office, the IACUC coordinator can choose which comments to merge prior to submitting the protocol to the investigator.
Click on the Reviewer beneath Other Reviewer Notes to view their comments.
Administrators: To merge all comments or a selection of comments, click on the reviewer checkbox and then click on Merge. Learn more about Merging for Administrators.
All of the notes are merged to the Reviewer Notes section. IACUC can choose to edit these notes prior to submitting the protocol to the investigator. Save the update.
Reviewing PI Responses to Committee Responses
When the investigator submits a protocol back to the IACUC office, the pages in the TOC are marked with icons. The green check marks indicate the PI reviewed all of the recommendations. Any pages marked with a notepad and a pencil are pages the investigator modified which were not flagged for change.
As the IACUC office reviews the changes made by the PI, the review pane helps to see the changes made to the large text-area and word-editor fields.
Modified Field Representations
Text and Numeric
Text Area and Word Editor
Radio Buttons
A No is switched to Yes.
Drop-down Lists
Research is replaced with Applied.
Checkboxes
A No is switched to Yes.
New Record
Record Removed
Records which have been removed from a grid are indicated in a Deleted Records grid, right below the original grid.
Changes to USDA
Any changes to the USDA Categories grid are reflected in a new grid named Revised Records. This grid displays under the USDA Categories grid and indicates what has been removed, changed and added.
Page Removed
Pages deleted from a protocol are reflected with a red X in the TOC.