About Online Critiques

IMPORTANT: This topic is for Online Critiques only, which is a pilot of new functionality available to a limited subset of reviewers at this time.

You can fill out application critiques using the Online Critique screen in Internet Assisted Review. Previously, critiques were filled out only via downloading, filling out, and uploading a Microsoft Word template file that had the appropriate guidance and entry fields pre-created.

With the new online critique system, you fill out critiques on a web page. The online critique templates have the advantage of being more closely aligned with the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) requirements. A given meeting will either have all online critiques, or all traditional Microsoft Word critique templates. The two types will not be mixed within a single meeting.

However, during a transition period, both systems will be used: filling out application critiques with Microsoft Word-based critique templates and the online critique system. Applications will be gradually transitioned to the full use of online critiques during the transition period.

If the FOA for an application is compatible with IAR online critiques, then you can click on the submit link in the Actions column of the List of Applications or List of My Assigned Applications screen to access online critiques.

The List of Applications screen will not have Download Zip of All Critiques link for the meeting if online critiques are in use. There will be no Critique Template links in Meeting Materials or List of Applications screens. Instead users click the Submit link in the Action column of the List of Applications screen and are taken to the Online Critique screen.