1. A User Guide for Department Heads Introduction to RISe and your “My Home…” Page

2. Your “My Home” Page: RReview all ethics applications submitted to you by researchers belonging to your Department MManage your own ethics applications and COI declarations

3. “My Roles” RRISe assigns user roles based on your rank and responsibilities A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. EEach role is associated with a different “My Home” template. Click on the role you want to operate under for specific tasks/activities YYour active operating role will be bolded and displayed in the color bar above your “My Roles”

4. Committee Meetings  Click on each of the committee links to view:  Scheduled meeting dates  Deadlines for application submissions

5. 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

6. Conflict of Interest  This tab contains COI/COC Declarations he most current declarations for your Department’s faculty members can be found under the Conflict of Interest/Conflict of Commitment (current) subheading  A Any amendments to any declarations undergoing review will show under the Amendments (in progress) subheading

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

8. Human Ethics his 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

9. Inactive  This tab contains all terminated and withdrawn applications belonging to researchers in your department  Applications that have been submitted a Completion of Study will be closed and terminated by the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 pplications that you have “Permanently Inactivated” by the PI are also filed under the Inactive tab

10. Click to access your account profile page Click to return to your (default) My Home page Click to exit out of the RISe system