Reviewers use the Academic reviews app to review applications and make recommendations. For example, recommend making a conditional offer or a conditional offer to an alternative
Admissions officers processing applications start academic and credit reviews. Admissions officers choose reviewers, set deadlines, and add notes detailing the reason for the review. However, if admissions officers are unsure which reviewers should perform the review, they can delegate the task of choosing the reviewers to an academic reviewer.
Reviewers are staff that belong to a person collection with the appropriate staff remit. Reviewers receive email alerts for applications that require review or delegation. The emails contain a link that opens the Academic reviews app on the dashboard page. The dashboard displays the number of outstanding reviews. For each type of review, the dashboard shows the number of applications that have passed the review deadline and are near the review deadline. The health status indicates health of applications in a review and of individual applications in relation to the deadline, as follows:
- Healthy
- Waiting for review and not near the deadline for review. Healthy is indicated by a green vertical status bar.
- At risk
- Near the deadline for review. At risk is indicated by an amber vertical status bar.
- Breached
- Exceeded the deadline for review. Breached is indicated by a red vertical status bar.
The image Dashboard of outstanding reviews shows that the applications for review have passed their deadline for review, which is also indicated by their breached health status.
For each review type, reviewers can drill down to view the number of outstanding applications for review. For example, view all the applications that require a credit review. Then, for each application, reviewers view the application and the notes provided by admissions officers. Admissions officers then make their recommendations and provide reasons for their recommendations. On making a recommendation, the application is removed from the outstanding applications.
The review types and their recommendations are as follows:
- Application review
- Make a recommendation for an offer, an offer for an alternative programme, an interview, or reject the application, and so on.
- Application delegation
- Delegate the task of reviewing the application to other academic reviewers, which may include themselves. However, academic reviewers cannot change the deadline for the review or the required number of reviewers as set by admissions officers when starting the review.
- Confirmation review
- Make a recommendation for an offer, an offer for an alternative programme, or reject the application, and so on.
- Credit review
- Make a recommendation for the credits awarded for the specified
Academic reviewers must have the appropriate staff remit, such as Academic reviewer or Credit reviewer and permissions to use the Academic reviews app.
The video Academic review demonstration shows the following:
- Applications for review
- Application delegation
- Application review
- Credit review
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