How to Score Submissions as a Juror | Jury & Review | Crafted Call
How to Score Submissions as a Juror
JurorsUpdated Jul 16, 2026
As a juror, you'll review submissions and score them according to the gallery's rubric. This guide walks you through the jury interface, scoring process, and features to help you review efficiently.
Accessing the Jury Review Interface
Once you've been added to a jury panel and the review period opens:
Log into your Crafted Call account
Navigate to Jury Panel or click the email invitation link
You'll land on the Jury Dashboard, which shows:
Number of submissions to review
Your review progress (completed vs. remaining)
Current round (if multi-round)
Deadline for submission of scores
Click Start Reviewing or select a submission to begin.
The Scoring Interface
The interface has:
Left Panel — Submission list
Artist name (if not blind review) or anonymous ID
Submission title
Status icon (completed, in progress, pending)
Search and filter options
Center Panel — Submission images
Gallery view with zoom controls
Detail inspector (click for close-up)
Image navigation (swipe or arrow keys)
Metadata (title, materials, dimensions)
Right Panel — Scoring form
Scoring criteria (set by gallery)
Input fields for each criterion
Notes section for comments
Overall ranking slider (if applicable)
Tip: Maximize your screen width or go full-screen for best viewing. The interface is responsive and works on tablets too.
Viewing Submission Images
Explore each submission thoroughly before scoring:
Image Navigation
Zoom — Press Space (or use the on-screen zoom control) to toggle a magnified view; pinch-to-zoom on touch devices
Pan — Click and drag within a zoomed image
Full Screen — Use focus mode (press F) for distraction-free viewing
Multiple images — Swipe, or tap the thumbnail strip, to move between images in a submission (the arrow keys move between submissions, not images)
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Image Information
Below each image:
Title (if provided by artist)
Dimensions and Medium/Materials
Edition info (original, print, limited edition, etc.)
Upload date
Hover over any image thumbnail at the bottom to jump to it.
Scoring Criteria Explained
Each call defines specific scoring criteria. Common rubrics include:
Before you start, review the gallery's Rubric Guide or scoring instructions (sent via email or available in the jury dashboard).
Tip: If a criterion doesn't apply to a work (e.g., "Relevance to Theme" for an abstract call), you can skip it or note "N/A" in your comments. Check with the gallery first.
Scoring: Per-Submission vs. Per-Image
Per-Submission Scoring — You score the work as a whole (typical for most calls)
Single set of criteria scores
One overall ranking
Per-Image Scoring — For image-heavy submissions, you score each image
If a submission has 5 images, you score all 5
Final score is averaged across images
Helps when quality varies between images in a series
You'll see which mode applies when you begin reviewing. The interface adapts accordingly.
How to Score
Review the submission images thoroughly
For each criterion, enter a score:
Slider — Drag to select (1-10)
Number Input — Type directly
Radio Buttons — If preset options (Weak, Fair, Strong, Excellent)
Add optional Notes for This Criterion to explain your thinking
Move to the next criterion
At the bottom, enter an Overall Comment (visible to gallery; can be private to jurors only)
Click Save (or press Enter) to record your scores — you'll advance to the next submission automatically
Scores are saved automatically as you go. You can return and edit anytime before the review deadline.
Saving Your Progress
Your scores auto-save after each change. You do not need to press a "Submit" button to preserve your work.
Progress indicators:
Green checkmark — Submission fully scored
Amber circle — Submission in progress (partially scored)
Gray X — Not yet started
You can:
Log out and return later (progress is preserved)
Review the same submission multiple times
Edit scores until the deadline
On the jury dashboard, you'll always see your progress percentage and can jump back to any submission by clicking its card.
Adding Jury Notes and Discussion
Share feedback and collaborate with fellow jurors:
Personal Notes
Add private notes visible only to you (and admins if auditing):
Open a submission
Scroll to My Notes
Type your thoughts (criteria-specific or general)
Click Save Note
Use notes to:
Justify your scoring
Flag concerns (e.g., "Check image quality")
Remind yourself why you ranked this work highly or lowly
Discussion (if enabled)
If the gallery allows jury discussion, you'll see a Jury Discussion section:
Click Add Comment
Type your message (e.g., "I love the technical execution here" or "Anyone else find the theme unclear?")
Click Post
Discussions are visible to all jurors on this panel and marked confidential. They won't be shared with artists.
Tip: Use discussion to reach consensus on borderline submissions or clarify rubric interpretation with fellow jurors.
Ranking Submissions
After scoring individual criteria, you may provide an Overall Ranking or comparative ranking:
Slider Ranking
Move the Overall Ranking slider (1-10) to express your gut-level opinion of the work's quality:
1 = Definitely reject
5 = On the fence
10 = Definitely accept
This is separate from criterion scores; it's your holistic impression.
Drag-and-Drop Ranking (if enabled)
If the gallery enables comparative ranking:
Go to Jury Rankings
View all submissions as cards
Drag submissions to reorder them (best at top)
Your drag-and-drop order becomes your ranking
Click Confirm Rankings
This method is helpful if you want to compare submissions side-by-side rather than score them in isolation.
Keyboard Shortcuts for Efficient Reviewing
Speed up your review with keyboard shortcuts:
Shortcut
Action
J / →
Next submission
K / ←
Previous submission
1–N
Score the submission (scoring rounds)
Y / M / N
Vote Yes / Maybe / No (triage rounds)
Enter
Save your score
Space
Toggle image zoom
F
Toggle focus mode
S
Add/remove the submission from your shortlist
?
Show keyboard shortcut help
Press ? in the jury interface to see the complete, up-to-date list of shortcuts anytime.
Tip: Learn a few keys (J/K to move between submissions, number keys to score, Enter to save) to review significantly faster.
Seeing Work in the Gallery Space
If the gallery has laid out its space, you can open a Spatial view to see selected work arranged on the actual walls — drawn to scale against each wall's measured dimensions. This helps you judge how pieces read at real size and next to one another, not just as thumbnails.
What you're looking at
Every room in the plan, each with its walls. A wall labeled as provisional (not yet verified to scale) shows work at approximate proportions — the label tells you when the geometry is measured versus a draft.
Real artwork images, clipped to each piece's true proportions. A piece with no confirmed dimensions is not guessed at — it appears in a separate Scale unavailable list rather than being drawn at an invented size.
Blind review is respected. When the round is blind, artist identity is hidden here exactly as it is on the scoring screen; you'll see the safe title only.
Source modes
The gallery chooses which views you can open. Depending on the call, you may see:
Current round — the same set of submissions you're assigned to score right now (with your conflicts and assignment scoping applied), so the spatial view never shows you a piece the scoring screen hides.
Final accepted — only work that received a final acceptance decision. Being advanced in an earlier round does not put a piece here; a work advanced then later eliminated will not appear.
My shortlist — work you've gathered into your own private suggestion.
Private suggestions
If the gallery has enabled juror suggestions, you can arrange your shortlist on the walls and save it as a private suggestion. Only you can see it — it is never activated, shared, or shown to other jurors or the organizers, and it never changes the official plan. A coordinator can, on their own initiative, copy your suggestion into a new draft to work from; your original is left untouched.
Before You Submit
Before the deadline:
Review the Progress Dashboard — Verify all submissions are scored (green checkmarks)
Double-check any amber submissions (incomplete scoring)
Read through your Overall Comments — Are they clear and professional?
The gallery will send a reminder email 48 hours before the deadline.
Questions? Contact the gallery directly—their email is in your invitation. See Declaring Conflicts of Interest if you need to recuse yourself from scoring certain submissions.
