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.

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