{"id":8620,"date":"2021-10-28T14:16:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T14:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.89.29.163.nip.io\/docs\/administration\/setup-judging\/how-to-split-submissions-between-judges\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T14:56:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:56:55","slug":"spliting-submissions-between-judges","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/docs\/taking-submissions\/faqs-ts\/spliting-submissions-between-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I split submissions between judges by category?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you want to split up the judging workload, you can do this by assigning <a href=\"http:\/\/34.89.9.203.nip.io\/wpadmin2\/docs\/administration\/faqs\/what-is-a-submission-category\/\">categories<\/a> to each judge.&nbsp; This will mean that judges will only judge certain entries which fit in to the category they are assigned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To do this:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Go to your opportunity dashboard&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scroll down the left hand menu to &#8216;Judges&#8217;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Find the judge you want to edit and click the cog icon on the right hand side<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Go to &#8216;Edit Judge&#8217;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Choose which categories you want to the judge to have <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1362\" height=\"156\" class=\"wp-image-14620 lazyload\" style=\"width: 1500px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1362px) 100vw, 1362px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2026-05-05-155410.png\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2026-05-05-155410.png 1362w, https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2026-05-05-155410-300x34.png 300w, https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2026-05-05-155410-1024x117.png 1024w, https:\/\/zealous.co\/wpadmin2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/10\/Screenshot-2026-05-05-155410-768x88.png 768w\"><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Save the changes you have made<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/docs\/taking-submissions\/setup-judging\/assigning-judges-specific-entries-in-specific-rounds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">assign judges specific entries in specific rounds<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to split up the judging workload, you can do this by assigning categories to each judge.&nbsp; This will mean that judges will only judge certain entries which fit in to the category they are assigned. To do this:&nbsp; You can also assign judges specific entries in specific rounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":11031,"menu_order":84,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-8620","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","no-post-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/8620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8620"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/8620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14624,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/8620\/revisions\/14624"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/11031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zealous.co\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=8620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}