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Scoring Submissions as a Juror
JurorsUpdated Sep 21, 2026
You have accepted an invitation to jury a call, and now you have a stack of work to get through fairly and on time. This guide covers finding your assignments, the review screen and its different views, how scoring saves, the keyboard shortcuts that make a long session quick, and what to do when you recognize an artist.
Find your assignments
Sign in and go to Jury Dashboard. Your calls are grouped into Active Reviews, Pending Reviews for rounds that have not opened yet, Scoring Window Closed, and Completed Reviews.
Each active card shows the deadline as Scoring closes with a date, and gets more prominent as that date approaches. Click Start Review, or Continue Review if you have already begun.
The first time you open a call, a short welcome card names the call and the organization and points out a few shortcuts. Dismiss it once and it stays dismissed for that call.
The review screen
One submission fills the screen: its images, its details, and the scoring panel.
At desktop widths the scoring panel is pinned beside the work, so it stays in view however tall the image is. On a tablet or a phone it sits in a bar along the bottom of the screen: on a triage round the Yes, Maybe and No buttons are in the bar itself, one tap, and the arrow beside them opens the full panel when you want notes or a skip.
The welcome banners and the workflow toolbar collapse to a single progress line once you have scored your first work of the session, so the artwork moves up the screen. Review tools brings them back.
Switch to a grid of everything with Gallery, and back with Single View. Use the grid to get a sense of the field before you start scoring, then work through it one at a time.
Focus opens a distraction-free full-screen view of a single work. The F key does the same thing.
Four more views sit in the workflow toolbar:
Compare puts up to six works you have picked side by side. Add the one you are looking at with the C key. Use it when two pieces are competing for the same slot.
Shortlist collects the works you starred with the S key, so you can revisit your own favourites without scrolling the whole pool.
Calibration compares your scoring with the rest of the panel. See below.
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Meeting is a large-type presentation view for a shared screen. Scoring and discussion are hidden so nothing private appears on the projector during a panel meeting.
Click the active one again to go back to reviewing.
Score the work
What the scoring panel asks for depends on how the organizer set the call up.
Rubric scoring gives you a slider per criterion, each labelled with its name and its weight as Importance followed by a multiplier. A criterion you have not touched reads Not scored. Your weighted Total Score updates as you go. Click Save Score the first time, or Update Score to change one. Skip for now moves on without recording anything, and skipped work stays in your queue.
You cannot save a partial rubric. Leave a criterion blank and you are told that scores are missing for some criteria.
Triage is a quick pass rather than a score. The panel is headed Triage and offers Yes, Maybe and No. These save the moment you click, with no save button.
Ranking asks you to drag your assigned works into your preferred order, then click Save Ranking.
Per-image scoring appears when the organizer wants each image judged separately rather than the entry as a whole. Score each image, and Crafted Call averages them into the entry's total.
A badge near the panel reports the save state, moving from Saving to Saved with a timestamp. If your connection drops, your work is kept on your device and the badge says so, then syncs when you are back online. Do not re-score a piece because you lost signal.
Changing a score you already gave
Whether you can revise a score depends on the round's rules, and you find out when you try:
On most calls you can change any score for as long as the round is open. Once it closes you are told the round is no longer open for scoring.
Some calls give you a grace period after each save. Past it, you are told the grace period has expired and how long it was.
Some calls lock every score the moment you submit it. You are told that scores are locked after submission.
Your first score on a piece is always allowed. If you need a locked score changed, contact the organizer.
Calibration
Open Calibration to see how your scoring compares with the panel. It shows Your Scoring Summary with your mean, median and spread, a Panel Average for the same, and a Score Distribution chart putting the two side by side.
The panel's side stays hidden until three other jurors have started scoring. Until then it tells you how many more jurors need to begin. This is deliberate. Seeing one colleague's numbers early would anchor yours.
If your average sits more than 1.5 points from the panel's, you get a note suggesting you check that your use of the scale matches what the rubric intends. It is a prompt to think, not a correction. A juror applying a strict standard consistently is doing the job properly, and the organizer can normalize for scale differences later.
Keyboard shortcuts
Press ? for the Keyboard shortcuts reference at any time.
J or the right arrow moves to the next submission, K or the left arrow to the previous one.
Number keys enter a score directly in numeric scoring.
Y, M and N vote in triage.
Enter confirms or saves.
Space toggles zoom on the image, F toggles focus mode.
C adds or removes the current work from Compare, S from your shortlist.
P opens meeting mode, G flags a submission, Esc closes whatever is open.
Shortcuts pause while a save is in flight, so a fast keypress cannot land your score on the wrong piece. They are also off while you are typing in a text box, so you can write a note containing the letter N without voting.
Rolling calls have no keyboard shortcuts, because the shortcuts are built around rounds.
Notes and discussion
The Discussion panel under a submission takes both kinds of comment, and the switch decides which:
Shared with jury posts to the panel. Every juror and the organizers can read it.
Private note is visible only to you, and carries a Private tag.
Type @ to mention another juror. They are notified in the app and by email. During blind review your name is not revealed to them.
Discussion is hidden entirely while blind review is active, so a colleague cannot identify an artist by talking about them.
If you know the artist
Click Conflicts of Interest to open Conflict of Interest Management. Search for the artist, add a Reason (optional) if it helps the organizer, and click Declare Conflict. Their work leaves your queue immediately, stops counting toward what you owe, and you are not asked to score it. Your declarations are listed under Current Conflicts.
On a blind call there are no names to search, so you are asked to contact the organizer and they record it for you.
You can never score your own submission. If you entered the call yourself, your work is kept out of your queue automatically.
On a rolling call there are no rounds. Applicants arrive continuously and you vote on each as it comes in with Accept, Waitlist or Reject, plus an optional comment. Your vote is recorded straight away, and you move to the next applicant yourself. An organizer admits applicants one at a time. See Rolling Calls.
Finishing
Your progress line shows how many you have scored, skipped and have left, with a percentage and a rough time estimate. When you reach the end you get a confirmation that scoring is complete and a link back to the dashboard.
If the call has awards, the awards voting section appears once you have finished reviewing. See Awards and Prizes.
Go back and revisit anything you skipped before the deadline. Skipped work is not scored work.
