Dapple gives admins three places to view and assess reviews: the Reviews section in the left-hand navigation, the Reviews tab inside any individual submission, and the Current Review column in the main submissions list. Each view is optimised for a different task — bulk triage, individual decision-making, or ranked comparison. Understanding which to use and when is the fastest way to run a review round efficiently.
What is the Reviews section and how do I access it?
The Reviews section lives in the left-hand navigation panel. It shows every review in your organisation — one row per review, not per submission. If five reviewers have each assessed ten submissions, you will see fifty rows.
Each row shows:
The review panel name and date
The creator (submission author) and their email
The reviewer assigned to that review
The status — Completed or In Progress
A snapshot of the score, vote, and opening comment
Open it by clicking Reviews in the left-hand navigation. By default, reviews are sorted newest first. Change the sort order using the Started — new first control in the top-right to flip to oldest first or to sort by score (highest to lowest, or lowest to highest). Sorting by score gives you an instant ranked list of all reviews submitted so far.
How do I filter reviews to find what I need?
Click Filters to open the filter panel. The available filters are:
Filter | What it does |
Status | Show only Completed reviews, only In Progress reviews, or both |
Review Form | Narrow to a specific review panel or form |
Stage | Show reviews from a particular workflow stage (e.g. First Round only) |
Minimum Rating | Set a score floor — useful for isolating top-rated submissions |
Has Comments | Filter to reviews where the reviewer left written feedback |
Reviewer | See all reviews from a specific reviewer |
Vote Outcome | Filter by Yes / No / Maybe recommendation |
Started At | Date range for when a review was started |
Completed At | Date range for when a review was completed |
Combine filters to drill down precisely — for example, filter by Stage: First Round + Status: Completed + Minimum Rating: 8 to see only the high-scoring finished reviews from your first round.
How do I group reviews by creator?
Toggle Group reviews by Submission at the top of the Reviews section. When enabled, instead of seeing one row per reviewer, you see one row per creator. Each grouped row shows the creator's name, their average score across all reviewers, total votes, and total comment count.
Click any creator row to expand it and see each individual reviewer's score, vote, and comment underneath. This is the fastest way to scan a full cohort and spot outliers — submissions with strong consensus and those where reviewers disagreed significantly.
How do I view reviews inside an individual submission?
Open any submission from the submissions list or from the Reviews section, then click the Reviews tab along the top of the submission panel.
This tab shows all reviews for that submission, organised by stage. For each review panel you can see:
The average score and overall vote tally across all reviewers
Each reviewer's individual score, vote, and written comment
Whether each review is Completed or still In Progress, and the due date
This is the right view for making individual decisions. After reading each reviewer's feedback, an admin can decide whether to move this creator to the next stage, reject the submission, or hold it for further scrutiny — then act directly from the submission panel.
How do I see review scores in the main submissions list?
The submissions list (reachable via Submissions in the left-hand navigation) includes a Current Review column that shows a snapshot of the current review panel's average score, vote outcome, and comment count for each submission.
If the column is not visible, use the column visibility controls to reveal it.
Select More and then Field Visibility
2. Then select Current Review
Once visible:
See the Score column and use the sort button to sort submissions from highest to lowest average score.
Use Filters to narrow to a specific stage or project if needed.
Tick the checkboxes to bulk-select submissions — for example, the top 25% — then use the bulk action menu to move them to the next stage.
This makes the submissions list the most efficient tool for bulk triage decisions. A common approach is to sort by score, immediately select the top quarter to progress, select the bottom quarter to reject, and then review the middle half individually using the Reviews tab on each submission.
Which view should I use when?
Task | Best view |
See all reviews at once, check progress, filter by reviewer | Reviews section (left-hand nav) |
Get a ranked list of every submission by average score | Submissions list → sort by Score column |
Read all feedback for one creator and make a decision | Submission panel → Reviews tab |
See a grouped summary of scores per creator | Reviews section → Group reviews by Submission |
Bulk-progress or bulk-reject a tranche of submissions | Submissions list → sort by Score → bulk select |
Check which reviewers have completed their assignments | Reviews section → filter by Status: In Progress |
Best practice for running a review round
Start with the Reviews section to check overall completion rates before making any decisions. Filter by Status: In Progress to see which reviews are still outstanding.
Use Minimum Rating filters to quickly surface consensus top performers without reading every comment.
Group by Submission to spot submissions where reviewers disagreed sharply — these are the ones worth reading in full detail via the Reviews tab.
Sort the submissions list by score when you are ready to make bulk decisions. This gives you an at-a-glance ranking rather than requiring you to open each submission.
Use the Reviews tab on individual submissions for borderline cases where you need the full context of every reviewer's written feedback before deciding.
Combine filters with bulk actions in the submissions list to move large groups in one step — this is far quicker than processing submissions one at a time.
Where to go next
Setting up a Review Panel — how to configure a review form and assign reviewers to a stage
Moving submissions between stages — how to progress, reject, or hold a submission after reviewing scores
Sending messages to creators — how to communicate outcomes to creators directly from Dapple
Setting up Review guidance — how to set up the rules and guidance for review panels