by Lindsay Nash | Dec 6, 2022 | Articles
This is a 6-part series detailing how to get started in Award Force. Here, in part five, we look at judging configuration. Click through the series below:
Judging an awards program is an integral part of your award program lifecycle. After all, it’s how you find the best submissions. There is so much that rides on good evaluation and good decisions.
Every awards program is different and how you judge your entries will be specific to your awards approach. We’re proud to offer the most sophisticated judging suite on the planet to help facillitate judging the way you need, best.
Award Force offers four judging modes, which can be used on their own, in parallel or in sequence. We make the setup easy with our “Judging fast start,” a setup wizard to help you configure your judging workflow exactly how you want it.
You can have your judging set up and ready to go in just five simple steps. Let’s take a look at the process.
The first step is to select which judging mode you’d like to use. This is the how of your judging process. The options available are:
To learn more about these judging modes and how they work, see our guide: Judging best practices for awards programs.
If you’ve opted for VIP judging (our score-based judging mode), you’ll need to create scoring criteria. This is how your judges will evaluate each entry. If you have a rubric you typically use, this is what you would insert into the criteria.
For each scoring criteria, you can add a label, which shows the judge what they are judging; a maximum and minimum score to create the judging scale; and weighting if some criteria is more important than others in your scoring rubric. For example, if you are judging an art contest, an originality criteria score might be worth more than a execution criteria score, or vice versa – up to you.
Now that you’ve chosen the judging mode and provided the scoring criteria, it’s time to choose what entries you want to be evaluated using the criteria you’ve created. This step is quick! Choose which entries you want judged by simply selecting the categories, chapters and/or tags that are relevant. (Want to know more about tagging? See how to use tags in your judging configuration.)
Now it’s time to choose who will judge the entries you’ve chosen. You can invite users with a specific role in your system, assign judges already in your system or invite new judges. You can also choose to add yourself to the panel if you want to test your judging configuration.
Those are all the quick steps to configure your judging. Now, you’ll be able to see any new judging configuration in the judging dashboard, where you can make further edits if needed.
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