The Comment Stage creates Comment Invitations for all submissions with custom participants. The Comment forms have a dropdown menu where users can select the intended readers of their comments.
When to Use it
Double blind venues can only run the Comment Stage after the submission deadline has passed. Single-blind venues can run the Comment Stage before the submission deadline if they first run Post Submission Stage.
Options
Commentary Start Date
When comment invitations will open for selected participants, in GMT
Optional
Defaults to now
Commentary End Date
When comment invitations will close for all participants, in GMT
Optional
Defaults to never
Participants
Selection of who will have access to comment invitations
Required
Email Program Chairs About Official Comments
Determines whether PCs will be notified of each comment.
Required
Enable Chat Between Committee Members
An experimental feature that allows committee members to chat with each other. Only the selected participants that are members of the reviewing committee will be using this feature. Default is "Yes, enable chat between committee members".
