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- Google Calendar settings
If you want to synchronise the CORE schedule with your Google calendarCalendar, you have to set the fields:Google calendar event feed url,Google calendar usernameandGoogle calendar password. Make sure the Google calendar Calendar is publicly available. Any changes made to the CORE schedule will also update the Google calendarCalendar.
- Submit/review/feedback dates for papers.
This specific option will be available only within the specified date range. The feedback option does not have a manual start date since this is based on the date the feedback codes are sent out.
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When a reviewer logs in and visits the 'submission' page they have the option to 'review' a paper. Under the default setting the page only displays the papers that the reviewer should review. Papers that have been assigned to the reviewer show the 'review' link in red. A reviewer can review any paper, also the ones they were he was not assigned to review.
A special case is for papers that the reviewer is a tiebreaker off. These papers will In case a particular paper needs a tiebreak review it will only show to a reviewer if:
- he is responsible for this tiebreak;
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- They are a tiebreaker of the paper
- An extra review for that paper is required.
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A reviewer can filter the submission list by using the filter bar at the top of the page. This also allows them him to download papers they should assigned to him for review.
Review tab
For a reviewer the review tab will display the papers they he should review and the ones they he already have has reviewed. If you are not a reviewer nor an admin, this tab will not be displayed.
When a reviewer is assigned nominated to act as a 'tiebreaker' for a paper and the this paper ultimately does not require a tiebreak, the paper will show is greyed out in the review tab. If a tiebreak is required, the link will become active and the text 'new' will be appended to the paper.
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Upon successful paper submission, the conference admin gets is notified by email. You can disable this notification by changing the value of application.ini/core.observer.submit to 0.
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Reviewers
Assign reviewers to papers by clicking on 'reviewers' next to the respective paper. Select a user from the select box to link them to the paper or remove a linked user by clicking the 'x' next to their name. To toggle tiebreaker status, use the 'tiebreaker' button next to the 'x'.
tiebreakers
Tiebreakers
This process is to To streamline the review process and to prevent overloading reviewers since 0.9.2 the tiebreaker concept was added. When a user is a tiebreaker for a paper they he will only be asked to review this when the other reviewers cannot agreeoverall reviews are conflicting. This means that initially the list of papers a reviewer should review is shorter (short but can may become longer over time when there are in case more tiebreaks required).
When If a tiebreak becomes necessary is required the tiebreaker automatically receives an email asking their review for requesting he reviews the particular paper. You can configure this behaviour by changing the value of application.ini/core.observer.tiebreaker.notify to 0.
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LOD = Level Of Difference and . This is calculated with using the formula below , and has a value between zero and one. LOD is higher if two people of equal experience disagree than if two people of disparate experience disagree. For fixed values of experience, LOD increases as the disagreement in ratings increases.
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The threshold can be configured in application.ini/core.review.tiebreaker.
If a tiebreaker is required, the respective paper will have a yellow box around the Reviews table cell, with either 'WR' (Wrong Reviewer) or 'LOD: <value>' (Level Of Difference).
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Email reviewers
Send an email to all people assigned to review a paper. The email includes links to all the papers that they need to review plus a link to download their assigned papers as a zip archive. If a user is a tiebreaker for a paper it excludes that , this is excluded from the list.
When One the email is successfully send sent out the link will change in sending a reminder(what link will change?). This sends out a similar message as before with the difference:, however:
- the reminder is not sent to the reviewers who completed their tasks
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- The people who already done all their reviews do not get a reminder
- It only lists the papers that still need to be reviewed are listed. (this This includes papers that require a tiebreak if user is a tiebreaker for that paper).
Set status/proposed session
Click on the number/percentage to get a side by side parallel overview of all the reviews for that a particular paper. You can assign the status/proposed session here as well.
Email accepted/rejected
All papers with a status set to 'yes' will be accepted papers are papers that have been accepted and can be imported into CORE as presentations. Use the 'email accepted' link to notify the users whose papers have been accepted. Use the 'email rejected' to notify the users whose papers have been rejected.
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Sessions are basically presentation containers defined by a place and time. They require a title, a location and a timeslot. As soon as time slot. Once you created a session it will appear in the Scheduleschedule.
Session chairs
The drop-down list only shows users with role a 'chair' role. Select a user from the drop-down list to add them as a session chair. Click the 'x' next to their name to remove them. You can add multiple chairs to one session.
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If you set all of the Google Calendar fields in the Conference form, your sessions are automatically saved and synchronized synchronised with Google Calendar. If you added the Google Calendar details after you already populated the system with sessions, you can always use the 'sessions/synchronizesynchronise' option to synchronize synchronise all your existing sessions with your Google Calendar. If you do this, you might want to purge your Calendar calendar beforehand. This can only be done from the Google Calendar interface.
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The drop-down list only shows users with role a 'presenter' role. Select a user from the drop-down list to add them as a speaker. Click the 'x' next to their name to remove them. You can add multiple speakers to one presentation.
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Allows the user to add a paper, slides or an extra file.
Import
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submissions
All accepted submissions within a certain date range will be imported as presentations. You can fine-tune the import with several options.
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The schedule builds a table based on defined timeslots time slots and locations. The columns contain the time and the rows contain the rooms. During the conference, CORE automatically shows the current day. You can view a fullscreen version of the schedule by appending /size/1 to the url.
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An admin can move and swap sessions by clicking the respective checkboxes checkbox in front of a session name.
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