#  Communicating with Staff During Review 

 



During review (and after), you can complete the **Add Comment** activity to:  
1\. Post a note to the submission history that all individuals with access to the submission may view, and  
2\. If selected, send a notice to:

- PI/PI Proxy and Primary Contact
- Study Team Members and/or
- The assigned IRB Coordinator (If the IRB Coordinator box is selected and there is no assigned IRB Coordinator, a notice is sent to all members of the IRB office.)

During review of a site (and after), you can complete the **Correspond with Site** or **Correspond with sIRB** activity, and:  
1\. Send a notice to any person associated with the study or site, including the other IRB office contact.  
2\. Include the text in the activity within the email sent to the recipient(s), and  
3\. While not preferred, if a person chooses to reply to this notice: you will receive replies to this notice in your email inbox, rather than posted on the submission workspace.

**Important!**   
• The information in the comment is visible to all individuals with access to the submission even if they are not selected as notice recipients.  
• Do not attach items which are part of the regulatory review.  
• If a submission is in the Clarifications Requested state, use the Submit Response activity to send information back to the IRB for continued review.



 

- [Logging In](/logging-in "Logging In")
- [Creating a New Study](/creating-new-study "Creating a New Study")
    - [Study SmartForm](/study-smartform "What to Include in a Study SmartForm")
    - [Site SmartForm](/site-smartform "What to Include in a Site SmartForm")
    - [SmartForm Attachments](/checklist-study-smartform-attachments "Checklist of SmartForm Attachments")
    - [External IRB Submission](/ExternalIRB "Requesting External IRB Review")
- [Editing a Submission](/editing-submission "Editing a Submission")
- [Checking for Errors](/check-submission-errors "Checking a Submission for Errors")
- [Submitting a Study](/submitting-a-study "Submitting a Study for Review")
- [Checking the Status](/check-the-status "Checking the Status of a Submission")
- [Accessing a Submission](/accessing-submission "Accessing a Submission")
- [Responding to the IRB](/responding-to-irb "Responding to a Request for Clarifications or Modifications")
- [Changing Study Documents](/changing-study-documents "Changing Documents on a Study")
- [Communicating with Staff](/communicating-with-staff "Communicating with Staff During Review")
- [Managing Related Projects](/managing-related-projects "Managing Related Projects")
- [Finding the IRB Decision](/finding-IRB-determination "Finding Determination Letters and Approved Documents")
- [Managing PI Proxy](/about-pi-proxy "Managing Principal Investigator (PI) Proxy")
- [Changing a Primary Contact](/change-primary-contact "Changing the Study Primary Contact")
- [Managing Guests](/about-study-guests "Managing Guests with View-Only Permissions to the Study")
- [Copying a Study](/copy-submission "Copying a Study")
- [Creating a Follow On](/create-followon "Creating a Follow-On Submission after Study Approval")
    - [Modification SmartForm](/mod-smartform "What to Include in a Modification SmartForm")
    - [Renewal(CR) SmartForm](/cr-smartform "What to Include in a Continuing Review SmartForm")
    - [RNI SmartForm](/rni-smartform "What to Include in a Reportable New Information SmartForm")
    - [Site Modification (for External IRB Update)](/ExternalIRB "Requesting External IRB Review")
- [Closing a Study](/study-closure "Closing a Study")
- [Generating Reports](/generating-reports "Generating Standard Reports")