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Adding Award Reviewers

Paige Freeman
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Some organizations use individuals as reviewers and some organizations use a committee to review award nominations. Although reviewers are not necessarily responsible for choosing an award winner, reviewer scores and comments play a vital role in the evaluation of nominees. Reviewers are set up per award.

After you have defined the award review process stages, you can add reviewers to each stage, and finally, you can add questions that reviewers must answer when scoring nominations. Based on each reviewer's scores, the system will calculate an average score, a median score, and a total score for a reviewer nominee review and for a nominee for an award. For more information, please see Understanding an Award Nominee's Score.

To add award reviewers to a review process stage:

  1. From the Review Stages page within the Award Summary, select Manage Reviewers from the contextual menu within the grid for the corresponding stage.
  2. The Reviewers page displays. The Reviewers page displays a list of reviewers that have been defined for the review stage. To edit an existing reviewer, select the edit pencil next to the corresponding reviewer in the grid.
  3. To add a new reviewer, select +New Reviewer.
    The Add Reviewer page displays.
  4. Search for and select the Reviewer.
    The search runs against the Abs_Reviewer table for all reviewers who have been approved for ALL or have been approved for the same “Reviewer Approved For” code defined for the review process stage. Additionally, the system checks that the award nomination begin date falls within the reviewers’ term begin and end dates. For more information, please see Managing Awards Reviewers.
  5. By default, the Status is set to "Invited" because it is defined as the App_Type.PRIMARY_CODE for the AWD REVIEW_STATUS type.
    If the organization does not want the default to be INVITED, it should change the App_Type.PRIMARY_CODE for REVIEW_STATUS. If necessary, change this.
    Values in the drop-down are populated based on the non-fixed codes defined for the AWD "REVIEWER_STATUS" system type.
  6. Select Save.
  7. Repeat as necessary to add additional reviewers.
    There is no limit to the amount of reviewers for an awards program.