Open and close nominations
Opening nominations puts the program on your organization’s public awards page and starts taking nominations. Closing them starts the review pass.
Before you open
Section titled “Before you open”- The program needs at least one category.
- No card is needed during the trial.
During your trial
Section titled “During your trial”During the trial your programs take up to 50 nominations in all. Past that, nominations are still accepted, so nobody is turned away and no one loses what they wrote. The program page then says Choose a plan to keep receiving nominations, and announcing the winners waits until you choose one. Choosing a plan ends the limit at once, and your trial keeps going until its last day.
Open nominations
Section titled “Open nominations”Open the program
Go to Programs and select the program.
Open nominations
Select Open nominations. The status changes to Nominations open.
Share the link
Select Copy link, or Public page to see what nominators see.
Change the closing date
Section titled “Change the closing date”On the Nominations card, enter a New closing date and select Save date. The card shows when nominations opened and close and when review runs.
What nominators see
Section titled “What nominators see”Your public page asks people to enter their email for a sign-in link. The link expires in 30 minutes. After signing in, they choose an open program and a category, fill in the nomination form and submit. They can attach supporting files from their computer, up to three per nomination and 250 MB each.
After they submit, they see Nomination received! with a confirmation number and can download their nomination as a PDF. My Submissions shows what they have sent and lets them finish a nomination they started.
Nominating is free. Self-serve programs do not charge a submission fee.
Close nominations
Section titled “Close nominations”Select Close nominations on the program page. The status changes to In review, and reviewers can start scoring.
Remind people who haven’t finished
Section titled “Remind people who haven’t finished”While nominations are open, Home lists unfinished nominations in each program. Ask can email those nominators a reminder. You see who it will email before anything is sent, and nobody gets the same reminder twice in 24 hours. See Get things done with Ask.