ConfTool Pro provides two options which allows authors to provide feedback to reviews.
First, you can let authors reply to all reviews for one submission in a written statement when you activate the rebuttal function.
You can find more information here:
Respond to peer review - let authors enter rebuttals.
Second, you can let authors rate each individual review based on a score with several factors and written comments.
Let’s take a look at this function in detail.
First of all, please go to:
Overview => Settings => Main Settings for the Review Process… and enable the review rating function in the section "Enable Ratings of Reviews by Authors".
Then click on the switch for the option "Enable Module and Select Start and End Date" to enable it and set the start and ending dates (see image 1).
You can find the latter setting also in:
Overview => Settings => Conference Phases and Deadlines(see image 2, second box).
If enabled, authors can submit a rating for each evaluation separately. It would make sense to activate this function only when the reviewing phase is over and all reviews have been received.
Please make sure that the phase that gives
authors online access to the results of the reviewing procedure is activated (see image 2, first box). Otherwise they cannot submit their ratings. You can find more information here:
Making review results entirely visible to authors.
For managing the
elements of the review rating form please go to:
Overview => Settings => Manage Elements of the Review Rating Form for Authors… and define the form that allows authors to rate each review they have received (see image 3).
You can configure different categories of the form and customize the default phrases according to your requirements. You can also set the range of scores for all ratings by selecting values for the minimum and maximum scores of the form (default: 0 - 10).
In the section “Text Fields of the Review Rating Form” you can enable comments from the author to the reviewer and/or internal comments to the chairs/program committee which will not be visible to reviewers.
Finally, please select one of the visibility options for the review rating results to the reviewers. Review ratings that have been entered by authors will immediately be shown to reviewers and visible to them on the page “Survey of Your Already Submitted Reviews” as long as the phase for the function is enabled.
Please remember to test your settings before you inform authors that they can start to rate the reviews they have received.