By January 23, I will have assigned papers to each of you.

By January 30, please assign papers to reviewers. Each paper will be assigned to 2 ACs. You can see all the reviewers. Each of you should assign 2 reviewers to each paper.

One key issue: you are asking Area Chairs to assign papers to the reviewers that they themselves recruited. If you feel that you have a paper that really should be assigned to a reviewer that you did not recruit, please send me email first, and I will let the recruiting area chair know. Since everyone did a great job of recruiting reviewers, this should not be a problem. Also, if you want to recruit additional reviewers once you see the papers, this should be no problem.

A second key issue: remember not to give review assignments to other Area Chairs. This will not work out well for you.

I recommend you download your papers first. It may be easiest to work through the papers offline, assigning reviewers to papers, and then entering the information into CMT afterwards.

The easiest way to assign reviewers seems to be as a two-step process. First, give yourself some suggested reviewers using the “Manage Reviewer Candidate Suggestions” link. The reason for this is that you get to see the reviewer keywords easily.

Once you've given yourself a set of candidate reviewers for each paper, go back to the main screen (probably easiest to click on “Select your role: Meta-Reviewer” and click “Manage Assignments, Bids and Conflicts”

Alongside each paper it will say on the far right, “Edit Bids / Edit Conflicts / Edit Assignments”.

Clicking on “Edit Assignments” will bring up a list of your suggested reviewers. You finish the assignment by clicking the box along the right-hand side and then clicking “Save”. REMEMBER TO CLICK SAVE otherwise you will lose your assignments.