Access All Department Prior Approval Requests

You can view all Pre-Approval Requests for your department under the Requests sub-tab in COINS.

To get started:

1. Navigate to coins.psu.edu.
2. Log in using your Penn State Account email address (e.g., abc123@psu.edu) and password. NOTE: College of Medicine and Penn State Health users should review the following webpage to locate and use their Penn State Account credentials to log in to COINS: Log In to Penn State Systems.
3. Click the COI tab.

4. Click the Requests tab in the light blue sub-menu.

The Prior Approval Requests for your department are displayed in a table divided into 3 tabs: Pending Requests (awaiting review from either you or the COI program), Approved requests (approved by you) and All Requests (pending and approved).

5. To determine if a Pending Request is assigned to you or to the COI office for review, click the name of the request. NOTE: Alternatively, you can see all requests assigned to you for review by clicking the Dashboard tab then the My Reviews tab.

6. Click the Review Information tab.

In this example, this request is currently being reviewed by the COI office, as indicated by the Yes in the Current? column. Remember that all Pre-Approval Requests are routed first to the COI office, who reviews the request for compliance and research security concerns.

7. To return to the list of all requests, click the Requests tab in the blue sub-menu.