Feedback: sharing judge scores and comments with entrants

Award Force allows you to share judging feedback with entrants so they can understand how their entry performed and where improvements could be made.

Feedback may include:

• Judges’ comments
• Scores from VIP judging
• Category average comparisons

Feedback is shared using a feedback round.

Create a feedback round

1. In the Manage workspace, go to Judging > Settings > Rounds
2. Click Add round
3. Enter a name for the round
4. Select Feedback round under 'Round type'
5. Set the Starts and Ends dates and times
6. Select the relevant chapters if applicable
7. Configure the feedback visibility options
8. Select the categories that will share feedback
9. Choose whether to display comments, scores, and/or category average
10. Click Save

Feedback visibility options

When configuring a feedback round, you can control who sees the feedback.

• Visible to entrants: allows entrants to view judging feedback on their entries.
• Visible to judges: allows judges to see feedback and scores from other judges.
• Anonymise judges: removes judges’ names from comments.
• Display total scores only: shows only the total score and overall comments. Individual scoring criteria and related comments will not appear.

Choose feedback content

You can choose which information appears in the feedback.

• Comments: displays comments submitted by judges.
• Scores: displays scores from VIP judging score sets.
• Category average: displays the average score across all entries in the same category.

Scores shown to entrants represent the average score across all judges, not individual judge scores.

Enable comments in feedback

To allow judges’ comments to appear in feedback:

1. In the Manage workspace, go to Judging > Settings > Score sets
2. Click the relevant score set
3. Open the 'Display' tab
4. Scroll to the 'Commenting' section
5. Select Display comments on feedback view
6. Click Save

Good to know

• Feedback becomes visible only during an active feedback round.
• If no start date is set, feedback becomes available immediately. If no end date is set, feedback remains available indefinitely.
• Judges must complete their assignments before their comments appear in feedback.
• Files uploaded by judges in their comments are also shared with entrants.
• Comments marked as internal are never included in feedback.
• If multiple VIP judging score sets exist, scores from all score sets appear in feedback.
• Individual judge scores are never shown to entrants.
• Entrants can print or save their feedback as a PDF from the feedback view.
• Inform judges in advance if feedback will be shared so they can write helpful comments.