During the submission process, you will receive requests to modify your protocol in the form of Reviewer Notes. 

Select the "My Home" tab at the top of the screen to get to the "My Home" page. Your protocol will be in the "My Home" section and will indicate that action is required. Select the protocol from your "My Inbox" to open the protocol workspace.

You can view all reviewer notes added to a protocol by running the Compile Reviewer Notes activity from the protocol workspace.

To respond to reviewer notes, click “Review and Respond to Reviewer Notes” in the “Activities” section of the protocol workspace. This opens the protocol where you can view the reviewer notes and address the requested changes to your protocol.

The sections of the biosafety protocol are listed in the navigation pane. For sections with reviewer notes, the relevant section(s) will show a yellow comment bubble and a number to indicate the number of reviewer notes. Any unanswered notes will have a small, red dot above the bubble.

To go to a section with a reviewer note, select that section in the navigation pane. When in that section, select the yellow comment bubble to open the reviewer notes window.

Any notes for that section will be shown in the window and will direct you to make a change or answer a question on that particular section of the protocol.   

Once you have addressed the reviewer note's requested change in the protocol, you must also respond to each reviewer note by selecting "Reply". This opens a text box in which you can enter your response. 

• A response may be as simple as "Done" or "Completed" to indicate you made the requested change.  
• Once your response to that reviewer note is submitted, your response is saved in the note.  
• Please note the response should not be used for attaching files that need to be uploaded to the biosafety protocol.

Reviewer notes do not need to be addressed in one session, you may exit the protocol at any time and your responses to reviewer notes will be retained until you are able to resume.

When you have responded to all reviewer notes, exit the protocol and then click the SUBMIT button in the protocol workspace. This will send your protocol back to OBS with your responses.  

Please be aware, the ARROW system will not allow you to submit your protocol back to OBS until you have responded to every reviewer note.