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> This page uses Backed's default terms, such as Funding Round and Application Template. An organisation may rename them, so read each as your organisation's own term if you've renamed it.

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](assessor-home.md)
- [Completing an assessment](completing-an-assessment.md)
- [Frequently asked questions for assessors](faq-assessors.md)