When assigning reviewers manually, reviewers may need to be added to the system FIRST, if the reviewers do not have a profile in the contacts module.
Reviewers will not be notified that they have been assigned to review submissions until you email them.
NOTE: When assigning, the list of available submissions does not include those that are: DRAFT, INCOMPLETE or WITHDRAWN.
Open the Review Module
- Click Dashboard
- Select Speaker Module
- Click Review button
- If using the Paper review, click Review Papers in the left menu.
- If you are on the multi-review module, select from the Select Review Module dropdown list, the review module you wish to open
There are 2 ways to manually assign a reviewer:
Assign by Contact = allows you to assign multiple submissions to a single reviewer.
OR
Assign by Submission = allows you to assign multiple reviewers to a single submission.
- Click Reviewers in the horizontal menu
- Select Assign by Contact
- Skip to Step 4, if you created a Reviewer Pool, Click the Show All Contacts button
- In the Search field, located to the right of the screen above the list, enter the first few letters of the first or last name of the reviewer.
- Once you find the reviewer’s name in the list, click on the Row it appears on.
- If applicable, sub-filter the list of submissions by selecting a Track
7. Locate the submission to assign the review and click the first + icon to assign
HINT: Use the Search Field to quickly find a submission by entering the submission #.
8. For each reviewer, repeat steps 1 to 8.
OR
Assign by Submission
- Click Reviewers in the horizontal menu
- Select Assign by Submission
- Display submissions by one of the following:
- Setting the Select Track Filter, click select a track and choose a track
- Setting Select Value for a field value from the submission form, click Select Value, choose a value
- Select Submission - provides a dropdown scrollable list of all submission IDs
- Click the Show All button to display all submissions, then use the Search field to directly enter a submission ID #
- When you have located the submission to assign reviewers, click on the submission
- From the list of reviewers, click the + icon for each reviewer to be assigned
HINT: Use the Search field, and enter the first few characters of a last name to search for matching names
Finding unassigned Submissions
- Click Reviewers in the horizontal menu
- Select Assign by Submission
- Click on the Assigned column and sort in ascending order. This will sort the grid and show unassigned submissions at the top of the grid.