Review panels

An organisation may put you on a review panel: a group of a round's assessors with one lead assessor. You assess each of the panel's applications as usual. The panel then lets you see how the other members scored them, and in some rounds the lead records the panel's agreed outcome.

Application and Assessment are your organisation's own terms if you've renamed them.

Open the Panel tab

When you sit on a panel, My Assessments (Assessments in the menu) has two tabs: Assessments, your list, and Panel. Open Panel. If you sit on more than one panel, choose one under Panel.

The tab shows the panel's name, your role (Lead assessor, Member or Deputy lead), whether it is Scored or Consensus pass or fail, and its assessment round. Below that is each of the panel's applications assigned to you, with Your Assessment and its status.

When you see other members' scores

You never see another member's score before you submit your own assessment of that application.

• The lead assessor sees every member's status, Total Score and comments on an application once the lead has submitted their own assessment of it.
• Other members see the same only when the round shares scores within the panel, and again only after submitting their own. Otherwise the application says This panel does not share scores between members. The lead assessor sees them.

Until then an application says The other members' scores and comments show here once you submit your own Assessment of this Application. Assessors who are not on the panel never see its scores.

In a round that uses blind review, an application is named by its reference number, with Anonymised for blind review in place of its title, as everywhere else in the portal.

Record the panel outcome

In a Consensus pass or fail panel the lead records one outcome for each application, once every member without a conflict of interest has submitted. If the lead has a conflict on an application, the organisation names a deputy lead for it, and the deputy records its outcome instead.

1. On the application, under Panel outcome, select Record outcome.
2. Choose Pass or Fail.
3. Enter a Rationale. It is required, and it is kept with the outcome in the audit trail.
4. Select Record outcome.

To change an outcome, select Amend outcome. The dialog shows what was Recorded before; change it and select Save amended outcome.

Backed refuses the outcome, and says why in the dialog, when a member without a conflict has still to submit, when you have declared a conflict on the application (ask the organisation to name a deputy lead), or when you are not the lead or the application's deputy lead. Members' assessments are kept whatever the outcome.

See also

• Your assessor dashboard
• Completing an assessment
• Frequently asked questions for assessors