Randomized Assignments help organizations evenly distribute submissions or applications to their reviewers by randomly assigning submissions to a set number of reviewers. This makes it easier for administrators to ensure that each reviewer is assigned the same number of submissions.
How to randomly assign submissions
1. On your submissions list, select the checkbox next to the submission(s) you would like to assign.
2. Click the Other dropdown at the top of the submissions list and then select Randomize Assignments.
3. In the Randomize Assignments box, select how many reviewers you would like assigned to each submission, choose which team members you want to be included in this review process, and add an optional message to those team members. You may also assign one or more Groups here:
4. Click Assign. Your submissions will instantly be evenly and randomly distributed among your selected team members.
Things to know
Randomized assignments cannot be made using "all matching results" on the submission list. It will only work for the visible submissions on the active page. To see more rows of submissions, adjust the number at the bottom of the page.
If a submission is already assigned to a reviewer before you use Randomized Assignments, the reviewer will remain assigned to that submission. This means the total number of reviewers assigned to that submission may exceed the specified number. To ensure that each submission has your preferred number of reviewers, you'll need to unassign the submissions from all reviewers before using Randomized Assignments.