Your assessor dashboard

The Assessor Portal is where you review the applications an organisation has asked you to assess. It opens on your Dashboard. The menu on the left holds Dashboard and Assessments, and Shared Assessments once an organisation has shared an assessment with you (see Shared assessments). Your name, at the foot of the menu on a computer, or at the top of the page on a phone or tablet, opens My profile.

Labels that name Application, Assessment and Grant use your organisation's own term if you've renamed it.

Your dashboard

From top to bottom, the Dashboard shows:

A welcome. The first time you open the portal you may see Welcome to the Assessor Portal. The Applications assigned to you to assess are listed below. and a Welcome message from the organisation. Select Close to dismiss it. This appears only when it is turned on for your organisation.
Notifications, such as a new assignment. Select Dismiss to clear one.
My Assessments, the same list as the Assessments page.

My Assessments

My Assessments lists every assessment assigned to you in a published assessment round, with the nearest due date first. Each row shows the Application, the Applicant, the Assessment Round, the Grant, its Status and its Due date. Total Score appears only when your organisation shows scores to assessors.

Use Search, Filter and Sort to narrow the list. You can filter by Status, by Assessment Round and by Grant.

To find an application from any page, use the search button in the top bar, or press / or Ctrl+K (Cmd+K on a Mac). It searches only the applications assigned to you, by number or title, and before you type it lists the ones you last opened from it (Clear recents empties that list). In a blind review round an application is found by its number alone, and is shown by its number with Anonymised for blind review.

Select Assess on a row, or the application's title, to open it. Backed takes you to the step the assessment is up to: the decision to assess, the conflict of interest declaration, the confidentiality agreement or the assessment itself. The row's menu (⋮) holds Export Application and Export Assessment when they are available.

Until an application is assigned to you, the list says No Applications have been assigned to you yet.

If you sit on a review panel, My Assessments has a second tab, Panel, for the panel's applications and your fellow members' scores. See Review panels.

Accepting or declining an assignment

Some assessment rounds ask you to accept each assignment before you can open it. A new assignment in one of those rounds shows the status Awaiting acceptance, with the date to answer by under it (for example Accept by 22 Oct 2026). Its title is not a link yet, and the row offers Accept and Decline instead of Assess.

Accept opens the assessment at its first step: the decision to assess, the conflict of interest declaration, the confidentiality agreement or the assessment itself.
Decline asks for a Reason for declining: Unavailable, Outside my expertise, Conflict of interest or Other. Details are required only when you choose Other. Select Decline to send it, or Cancel to keep the assignment. Once declined, the row leaves your list, and the organisation may give the application to another assessor.

Choosing Conflict of interest records a conflict of interest with the application, with your Details as its comment. In a round that asks for conflict of interest declarations, the row stays as Declared Conflict for an administrator to review.

You'll get a reminder two days before the date to answer by. If you don't answer by then, the assignment lapses and leaves your list, and can no longer be accepted. You can't decline an assessment once you've started it.

Downloading a whole round

To read offline, you can download everything assigned to you in an assessment round at once. Under My Assessments, Download a whole round lists each round that allows it, with Download all beside it. A round whose organisation has turned off bulk download is not listed.

Select Download all and Backed prepares one ZIP file with a PDF for each application: its answers first, then your assessment with its current scores, or empty boxes where you haven't scored yet. While it's being prepared the button says Preparing…; when it's ready it becomes Download, and a notification tells you it's ready. The ZIP is kept for 24 hours. Selecting Download all again within that time gives you the same file.

The ZIP holds only what you can already see on screen:

assignments you haven't accepted yet, and applications you've declared a conflict of interest with, are left out;
in a blind review round, the applicant's name and any hidden answers read Anonymised for blind review, and uploaded files are named like Attachment 1.pdf.

If an application can't be included, the ZIP holds a README.txt that lists it.

Your due dates in a calendar

To see your assessment due dates in Outlook, Google Calendar or any calendar app, open My profile and, under Calendar feed, select Create link, then Add to Outlook or Add to Google Calendar. For any other calendar app, select Copy link and add it there as a subscription. Each event shows only a number, a title and a link. Keep the link private; Reset link gives you a new one, and calendars subscribed to the old link stop updating.

What each status means

Status	Meaning
`Awaiting acceptance`	Accept or decline this assignment before you can open it.
`Pending Assessment`	Assigned to you and not started yet.
`Assessing`	You have started this Assessment.
`Assessed`	You have submitted this Assessment.
`Declined Assessment`	You chose not to assess this Application.
`Declared Conflict`	You declared a conflict of interest, and an Administrator will review it.
`Conflict Confirmed`	An Administrator confirmed your conflict of interest, so you will not assess this Application.
`Conflict Revoked`	An Administrator revoked your declared conflict, so you can assess this Application again.