Author: Zeb Reyaz

Instead of using the Yes/No field in review submission form, you should choose the Rating field type for questions with scales viz. rating an abstract based on exclusivity. See the screenshot below.

Reviewers would still see the same questions to answer while reviewing the abstract, except that when you use the Rating field, the system calculates an average rating for the abstract based on each question answered by the reviewer. See screenshot below.

This helps chair determine very easily whether to accept/reject an abstract.

The best way to sign up reviewers is to enable the Reviewer Registration button from Website builder > Navigation.

The Reviewer Registration form has fields which can be customized from the Form builder tool. 

The admin staff also has the option to add reviewers from the backend dashboard and send credentials to the reviewers so reviewer can log in to the dashboard using the credentials and submit reviews.

Go to Abstract settings and enable the Automated assignment. the system would automatically assign the abstract/s to reviewers based on the topic that matches with the abstract and the reviewer. See screenshot.

You can also set a limit on number of abstracts that can be assigned per reviewer and number of reviewers that can be assigned per abstract.