A User Guide for Department Heads

Introduction to RISe and your “My Home…” Page

Your “My Home” Page:

Review all ethics applications submitted to you by researchers belonging to your Department

Manage your own ethics applications and COI declarations

“My Roles”

RISe assigns user roles based on your rank and responsibilities

All researchers will have a role called “PI & Staff”. You must operate under this role in order to create, renew or amend your RISe applications. Department Heads/Reviewers will have a role called “Dept/Div Approver” which you must operate under to review ethics applications and COI declarations.

Each role is associated with a different “My Home” template. Click on the role you want to operate under for specific tasks/activities

Your active operating role will be bolded and displayed in the color bar above your “My Roles”

Committee Meetings

Click on each of the committee links to view:

Scheduled meeting dates Deadlines for application submissions

Workspace Your Department Head workspace consists of a number of tabs used to help organize and manage your studies:

My Inbox Conflict of Interest Animal Care Human Ethics Inactive

My Inbox This is the default tab of your “My Home” page Contains all new Animal Care and Human Ethics applications as well as COI declarations that are awaiting your review/approval

Conflict of Interest This tab contains COI/COC Declarations

The most current declarations for your Department’s faculty members can be found under the Conflict of Interest/Conflict of Commitment (current) subheading Any amendments to any declarations undergoing review will show under the Amendments (in progress) subheading

Animal Care This tab contains all active Animal Care applications submitted by researchers in your Department (including those that have Expired)

Human Ethics This tab contains all active Human Ethics applications submitted by researchers in your department (including those that have Expired)

New applications are shown under the subheading, Human Ethics Post Approval Activities (PAAs) pending approvals are shown under the subheading, PAA

Inactive This tab contains all terminated and withdrawn applications belonging to researchers in your department

Applications that have been submitted a Completion of Study will be closed and terminated by the REBA and filed here Applications that you have “Permanently Inactivated” by the PI are also filed under the Inactive tab

Click to access your account profile page

Click to return to your (default) My Home page

Click to exit out of the RISe system