The Assessors tab is where a coordinator builds the pool of people who will mark, moderate, or otherwise participate in a schedule's marking workflow. Use this article to add people to the pool, give them roles, set their permissions, and understand the rules for changing the pool after marking has started.
Open the Assessors tab
- Open Marking > Coordinator.
- Select a schedule with status Assessor needed.
- Open the Assessors tab.
If the tab is missing, your role does not include assessor management. Ask a System Administrator.
The tab has three jobs:
- Build a pool of assessors, moderators, and other staff.
- Give each person a role.
- Give each person specific rights, including who can publish results.
1. Build the pool
- Place your cursor in the Search users to add box.
- Type a name or username. Cirrus filters the list as you type.
- Tick the people you want.
- Select Add.
If someone you expect is missing, two reasons are likely:
- They are not in the schedule's hierarchy. The picker only shows users who belong to it. When the schedule was created, a hierarchy was selected, and only members of that hierarchy can be added here.
- They do not have a site role with access to marking. Add the right permission under Admin > Roles.
2. Set the role
Use the role drop-down next to each person:
- Assessor: marks scripts.
- Moderator: reviews scripts according to the moderation rules configured under Settings.
- Assessor & Moderator: both, when the same person plays both roles on a script.
- Other: in the pool but neither assessor nor moderator. Used for non-marking staff who still need permissions on the schedule (for example a manager who only needs to publish results).
3. Set the rights
For each person in the pool, choose the rights you grant them:
- Edit marking scheme: the user can change the marking scheme during marking.
- Publish results: the user can publish the final scores to candidates.
- View published results: the user can see results on the Reports > Results screen.
- Rescore: the user can perform rescoring during or after marking.
It is common to assign Publish results to a non-marking staff member with role Other, rather than to every marker. This separates the publication decision from the marking activity and gives a clean audit trail.
Adjusting the pool after marking has started
You can re-allocate while marking is in progress, but be careful:
- If you change the pool, change allocation, or remove a marker who has already submitted scores, those scores can be deleted.
- Cirrus shows a warning before applying the change. Read it.
- This action cannot be undone.
When the proposed change would remove already-submitted scores, Cirrus asks you to confirm. Confirming wipes the affected scores: you end up with a blank slate for those candidates and items. Work is lost.
After results are published
If a candidate's results have been published, you can no longer change the assigned assessors for that candidate. Cirrus highlights the affected rows and shows a warning. To make changes after publication, use remarking instead.
FAQ: which marker scored a specific candidate?
Export Candidate results — extended from Reports > Candidate results > Export to Excel. The export includes columns for first and second marker name, marker comment, and marker score, so you can trace any score back to the person who entered it.