Review Committee Member Instructions

Review Committee chair and members receive an ACRS triggered email when school AP sends the case forward in the workflow. Step 1: You may click on “ Review Candidate” button in the email to get into the ACRS system.

Step 2: If you are logging into the system for the first time, you will be prompted with the page below. Please click on “Partner Institution” button to log in via secure single sign on (SSO).

Step 3: Please type in “merced” and UC Merced will show up in the dropdown. Please select “University of California-Merced” and click on “Sign in” button.

Step 4: Please type in your UCMNet ID and Password and click on “login” button in the page (below).

Step 5: You will be presented with the following screen when you log into SSO. The tab “Case Materials” has the candidate uploaded documents along with some school AP uploaded documents. And the tab “Case Details” has all the instructions and checklist for the review committee chair and members.

Step 6: Please click on the “Case Details” tab first and scroll down to view your checklist.

Step 7: Please toggle back to “Case Materials” tab to read through the case to accomplish the first step in checklist. Please click on “Read” button to open the reader.

You may either click on the documents on the left hand menu to read through them, or click on “next material” button to move to the next document. You may also read the previous action documents by clicking on the “Previous action documents – uploaded by school AP” section on the left hand menu.

If you prefer to read the case offline, please click on “download” button located on the top right corner of the screen.

You may also add annotations to the candidate documents for your reference. These annotations will be private to your account and cannot be viewed by any other member. To add annotations. Click on the edit icon (in the bottom right corner) and choose the type of annotation you would like to use. There are three choices “Point”, “Area”, ”Text” to choose from.

Annotations can also be exported in the form of PDF. To export all your annotations, Please click on the “Annotations” tab and then click on the export button shown with an arrow in the screenshot below.

Step 8: Please click on “Return to Case” to go back to the case and log out of the system when you have finished reading the case.

Step 9: Please wait to receive an email from the Review Committee Chair when the Case Analysis is uploaded.

Step 10: Once you receive an email from the committee manager notifying that the case analysis is uploaded. Please log into the system for final feedback, or affirmation you agree with the case analysis that has been loaded in the system.

Step 11: Log back into the system and read through the case analysis. You may either click on the “Read” button or directly on the “Case Analysis” document to read through it.

Step 12: Toggle to the “Case Details” tab to enter your feedback in the comments section.

Step 13: Click on “Add” button to add your comment as shown in the screenshot. Then hit “Add” to save the comment. 1 2

Step 14: Sign out of the system once you have completed providing your feedback.