Auto Plop

Auto Plop pulls together ready and available judges and auto places them with ready and available students, placing them in an Interview Room together once a match has been found. Auto Plop filters everything by Category, either a selected category or a preference based category, so that the right judges meet with the right students as soon as everyone is available to do so.

Auto Plop also seamlessly handles team projects pulling all of the students on the team, who have indicated that they are ready, into the room with judges at the same time. That being said, Auto Plop doesn't need all of the teammates signed in to pull who is currently ready into the room. When the first student on a given team indicates that they are ready, the project is added to the Auto Plop list and enters the Auto Plop queue. When the time comes for that project to be pulled into a room with judges the system will pull in all students on that project who have indicated that they are ready.

Students who miss the initial pull into the room with judges can click on the blue Enter Virtual Judging Room button on the Virtual Contest page, this is the same page where they find the green I'm Ready button. They'll be placed into the same room with their teammates and the applicable judges even though they weren't part of the initial pull for Auto Plop.

Configure Auto Plop

1. Sign in to your zFairs site as a staff member or judge
2. From your menu banner select Staff -> Fair/Contest Setup
3. Then select Settings from the top left tile
4. There, in the Online Judging sub-tab (A sub-tab of the Premium Features section)
5. You can Enable Auto Plop and configure a couple relevant settings for it
   • Turn on Auto Plop - Checkbox
   • Lead Judges, Judges, and Student/Projects: - Dropdown List

     Set the number of judges needed for each match / Interview Room with a student

   • Determining Plopping - Dropdown List

     Sets whether you want Auto Plop to use the selected category or the Judges Preferences settings to determine the applicable categories

Example Videos

Note that two of these videos are for AcaDeca Speech and interview but the process of Auto Plop, (using the I'm Ready button) is the same.

• Overview: https://youtu.be/H6k6L303nCs
• Judge: https://youtu.be/Y2PrEG3WhdY
• Student: https://youtu.be/wQHXT1lPSvQ