Reviewing Applications FAQ

If you are a reviewer within a site on SurveyMonkey Apply you can refer to some of our commonly asked questions in regards to certain aspects of the site.

For questions on updating your account details and login credentials, you can refer to our General Account FAQ.

In order to review an application, you will need to click Start or Continue on the Program and Stage that the applications are currently in. On your main page, you will be able to see how many reviews are available to be completed within each Program and Stage.

Once within the reviewer panel, you can use the Reviewer Split Screen to review the application.

The completion status of each review will be displayed within the reviewer panel next to the application. There are three statuses, each with a different icon, and the terminology used to access the Split View will vary:

You can see the total number of reviews completed on your reviewer homepage and at the top of your reviewer panel. 

Whether or not you can see the reviews of other reviewers will vary based on a configuration in place by the administrators of the site. If this has been enabled within the site, to see these Reviews:

If the Reviews tab is not available it will mean that the administrator has not configured the site to allow you to view the other reviews. You will need to contact the administrators of the site for more information.

As a Reviewer, you can add and read application notes from the Reviewer Split Screen. These notes will be accessible to other reviewers assigned to the application and all administrators on the site.

To access Application Notes as a Reviewer:

NOTE: As a Reviewer you cannot create notes that are private to yourself or to only administrators. All notes will be visible to administrators as well as to other assigned reviewers.

From this section you can add, edit or delete a note.

Add a Note

In order to add a note on the application that will be visible to all Administrators and Reviewers:

Edit a Note

Within the Reviewer Split Screen, you have the ability to Edit the notes that you have written about an application. In order to Edit a note:

Delete a Note

If a note is no longer applicable to the application, you can delete the note from the application. In order to Delete a note:

If you wish to download the applications you are assigned to in order to view them offline, you can do this individually or in bulk.

Download an Individual Application

Download Applications in Bulk

Download an Individual Review

Download Reviews in Bulk

As a reviewer, your assignments will be separated first by the program the application applied to and then the specific stage the application is in. Therefore, if it is the case that you are set up to review multiple programs or stages in the site you will need to access each one in order to review those specific applications.

In order to switch between programs and stages you're reviewing:

In order to submit a review:

Within your reviewer panel, assignments are automatically filtered based on the program they have applied to and the stage in the program process that you are assigned to review. Once you click to Start or Continue your reviewer for a specific stage/program you can also filter the assignments further based on the completion status of the review.

You can choose between:

You can also sort your applications by clicking on the Application column to sort the column alphabetically.

If there is an application in your reviewer portal that is a conflict of interest for you:

An email will automatically be sent to the administrators of the site to notify them of your conflict.