Reviews are a powerful feature in Dapple that help organisations fairly and efficiently assess submissions. Instead of decisions resting on one person, reviews enable submissions to be shared with panels of reviewers—such as readers, editors, or judges—who can each provide their input.
What is a Review Panel?
A Review Panel is a group of reviewers who can each provide their input on a submission, giving feedback, adding a score and a vote. You can:
Add both external and internal users in your organisation to these panels
Add as many reviewers as needed to each panel
Create different panels for different Stages of the Submission
Create as many panels as needed.
How to Create Review Panels
Navigate to the Project you'd like to set up a panel for and select Project Settings
Select the Reviews option and Set Up Review. If you have already created panels for this project they will appear in a list here.
You will need to give the Review Panel a name and you will need to assign it to a stage within the project. You have the ability to create multiple panels and assign each panel to its own stage. You may for example, have a first round judging panel (set to the first round stage) and then you might want to create another panel and assign it to the next round.
There is a dropdown section called "Advanced Options". By default, a panel will be created and automatically add all the Team Members as reviewers. Please not that you can always remove members at the next stage and members will not be alerted or notified that they have been added to a panel.
How to Add/Remove Members to Review Panels
Once a panel is created, you will then be able to add/remove members to it. Here are the steps to add members:
Select Edit panel members to begin adding/removing members of your organisation to this panel.
Select the tab Panel Members to see a list of all those users who are in this panel. If you had the auto-generate button selected when creating the panel, you will see all of your existing Team members already added. You can add members of any team to a review panel. If there are some users you do not wish to be in this panel, simply untick them from the list.
You can only add members of your Organisation to a Review Panel. If a user is not currently added to the system, they will not appear in the list, and you will first need to add them to your organisation. In order to do this, select the option Manage your organisation users. If you do not want the user to be able to access the dashboard (such as external reviewers or guest judges), you should only give them Reviewer level permissions - this means they only have access to a personal Review Account.
Once a request has been sent to a user to join the Organisation, their email address will then appear in the list to add to a panel as a pending panel member, enabling you to create panels even if the user has yet to confirm their invitation.
After you have added all the panel members, you can then set up the guidelines and rules for this panel. Select the tab Reviews Using This Panel and then select the panel you have just created.
Set up the Guidance and Feedback.