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Enabling Online Judging

1. Click "Staff"
2. Click "Fair Setup"
3. Click "Settings"
4. Under "Premium Features" click "Enable Online Judging"
5. Click "Save"
6. Return to the home screen and click "Judging"
7. Click "Setup"
8. If the button at the top says "Online Judging: OFF" click it so it says "Online Judging: ON"

Configuring Available Judge Questions

1. Click "Staff"
2. Click "Fair Setup"
3. Click "Settings"
4. Click "Judges" which is found under the "User & Registration Type Settings" section
5. Select any questions you would like to be required

Setting up Judging Sessions

1. Click "Staff"
2. Click "Fair Setup"
3. Click "Judging Sessions"
4. Fill out the information
5. Click "Save Judging Session"
   • If you would like to add another session click "Add New" and repeat the above steps.

Viewing Judge's Sessions and Answers to Custom questions

1. Click on "Staff"
2. Click on "Report Viewer"
3. Select "Judges Detail" or "Judges Detail Lite"

How to Generate Rubric for Online Judging

1. Click on "Judging"
2. Click on "Setup"
3. At the bottom of the page, click "Add Judging Category"
4. Create category, and select the weight of the category
5. Click "Save Judging Category"
6. Once a category is added you can click the "Add" button on the right to add assessment categories with their score types
7. Click "Save Assessment"

You will now be able to view this rubric in the Report Viewer. It can be found under Judging Rubrics, and will be titled "Judging Rubric from Online Judging".

For your rubric to work you need to have judging categories and assessments under each category. The assessments are the points the judges will score under each category.

Changing the Assessment Weight of Judging Questions

While creating the rubric for judges you are given the option to adjust the weight of the assessments. The following are a couple of examples of how this feature works.

Note: Changing the assessment weights does not change the overall category weight. It only alters the weight of the assessments within the category. In order to change the weight of the category, you need to edit that category and alter the category weight.

Example 1:

We have created a category of Presentation that is worth 20%. Within this category we have 2 assessments.

• The first assessment is the "Interview" which is set as a Yes/No question.
• The second assessment is the "Project Board" which has a scoring range of 1-10.

If the assessment weight for each assessment is not set, the default will be to have the "Project Board" worth 10 points and the "Interview" worth only 1 point. So within this category which is worth 20%, the "Interview" will be worth approximately 9% while the remaining 91% will be the "Project Board".

These same categories could be altered to have equal weight by setting the assessment weight. If you set the assessment weight of the "Interview" assessment to be 10, this category will now carry the same weight as the "Project Board" question. This will allow both categories to be worth 50% of the Presentation category.

Example 2:

We have created a category of Analysis that is worth 30%. Within this category we have 3 assessments.

• The first assessment is "Relevant" which is set to a range of 1-5.
• The second assessment is "Sufficient Data" which is set to a range of 1-10.
• The third assessment is "Correct Analysis" which is set to a range of 1-5.

If the assessment weight for each assessment is not set, "Relevant" will be worth 5 points, "Sufficient Data" will be worth 10 points, and "Correct Analysis" will be worth 5 points. So within this category which is worth 30%, "Relevant" will be worth 25%, "Sufficient Data" will be worth 50%, and "Correct Analysis" will be worth 25%.

Now, lets say you determine that you want to leave the ranges the same but you want "Correct Analysis to have a higher weight than the other categories. You could set the assessment weight of "Sufficient Data" to 5, and set "Correct Analysis" weight to 10. Now, within this category "Relevant" will be worth 25%, "Sufficient Data" will be worth 25%, and "Correct Analysis" will be worth 50%.

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