There are two types of statuses in Cayuse Human Ethics to help you keep track of project progress:
Unsubmitted: An in-draft submission that is open for editing and has not yet been routed to the IRB. Likely some required items still need to be completed before the submission can be declared complete and certified.
Awaiting Certification: Once a submission is declared complete, it informs the certifying researchers that they need to sign off on it. A submission cannot be edited once it reaches this point unless a certifier rejects it.
Awaiting Org Approval: Once all certifications are done, department approvers will be notified that they need to sign off on it. This is the last step before the IRB Office gets to see the submission unless an Organizational Approver reopens it for editing by rejecting the submission.
Reopened: This status is applied if a Certifier, Approver, Analyst, or Reviewer returns the submission at any point. It is functionally the same as the Unsubmitted status.
Under Pre-Review: Once all certifications and approvals are in, the submission routes to the IRB Office where an IRB Analyst will be assigned, determine the review level for the protocol, and begin a preliminary review. The Analyst may return a submission if they need additional information or clarification before sending the protocol to review.
Under Review: Regardless of the level of review or number of board members reviewing, this status indicates that the IRB review process is underway for a submission. For Full Board reviews, this can be expected to go through the Board's next meeting date, unless the submission has already been through a Full Board Review and needs only minor edits.
Under Post Review: This status is applied once the Reviewer's assessment of a submission is completed and they have come to a decision to either approve the protocol or ask for revisions. After a decision is made, the submission routes back to the assigned IRB Analyst for a final check before declaring the review complete, returning it, sending it to additional Reviewers (if needed).
Review Complete: Once an approval or exemption decision has been reached for a protocol and the IRB Office has signed off on it, this status becomes permanent for the submission and the Study Status may change to reflect it, as when an Initial Submission is first declared "Approved" or when an expired protocol finishes the continuing review process.