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As the moderator, you can choose to summarise a review at any time.

(info) Normally, we recommend that you wait for all reviewers to complete their reviews.

The reviews that the reviewers have completed will be in the 'To Summarize' menu on the Dashboard. There are two ways to summarise a review:

  • Either click the 'Summarize' link at bottom right of the review,
  • Or preview the review, review the comments and then click on the 'Summarize' button.



Screenshot: 'Summarize' link on Review screen




Screenshot: 'Summarize' button on preview



The above review is not yet complete

We can see that Stephen Colbert has still not finished reviewing, because there is no green tick next to his name.

On clicking 'Summarize', the moderator may be prompted to confirm the action if there are incomplete reviews or draft comments in the review.

The requests for confirmation are warnings only

The review can still be summarised and closed.

Once the review is in the 'Summarize' state, the moderator can optionally add a review summary, i.e. describe the outcomes/tasks/etc.

Screenshot: Review summary


The summary is sent to all participants and displayed at the top of the closed review.

The moderator is the only participant who can add comments in 'Summarize' state. This gives the moderator the responsibility of the 'last word'.

Reviews in the 'Summarize' state can be closed.

Reviews in the 'Summarize' or 'Closed' state can be re-opened. Re-opening changes the review's state back to 'Under Review', allowing all participants to add comments.

Re-opening a review is not the recommended way to 're-review'. You should create a new review with the reworked changes and link it to its parent review.

Note that you need the 'Summarise', 'Close' or 'Re-Open' permission to summarise, close or re-open a review.



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