Question 1

What is Untap Compete?

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What is Untap Compete?

Untap Compete is a software that lets organizations easily and quickly plan, launch, and manage online prize-based competitions, hackathons, open innovation challenges, accelerator & incubator programs, scholarship programs, grants programs, and other forms of calls for applications.

It streamlines the process of building a dedicated website, receiving and managing submissions, engaging with the participants, and evaluating the submissions.

Untap Compete also provides an innovative Round Engine; enabling program organizers to manage the whole funnel of their program in one place qualifying participants from one round to the next.

The software provides a website builder for setting up and customizing a website for the call for applications that can include any relevant content. The website also includes an “Apply Now” page for interested participants to sign up (or log in) to their accounts and make a submission. Interested participants can sign up to access their dedicated account and be able to submit their applications and monitor status updates regarding their submissions.

In addition to the website, Organizer(s) receive access to a dedicated account on Untap Compete. The account enables the Organizer to create new calls for applications and manage existing ones.

Organizer(s) manage the whole process on their dedicated Untap Compete dashboard. They build the application form, customize the landing page, and monitor the submissions. They c

Question 2

Why Untap Compete?

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Why Untap Compete?

Untap Compete is a simple and customizable submission management software that streamlines running calls for applications saving the time and effort spent on mundane admin work.

Rather than screening dozens, hundreds, and sometimes thousands of submissions in hard-to-maintain spreadsheets and having to figure out workarounds for communicating with participants and for evaluating submissions, we enable program organizers to focus on the tasks that really matter from planning their program to reaching out to the right candidates to selecting and working with the top participants while assessing their program impact.

What Untap Compete can do for you

Create your own customizable landing page to brand your call for applications, build the submission form and receive any number of submissions, easily send emails to all participants or judges, build evaluation forms and assign judges to evaluate submissions, manage the entire funnel of your program with any number of rounds in one place, export your data at any time and much more!

Our customers use Untap Compete for these types of programs:

Student Competitions
Startup Competitions
Creative Competitions
Design Competitions
Employee Programs
Awards Programs
Innovation Challenges
Online Hackathons
Scholarship Programs
Grants Programs
Hiring Events
Internship Programs
Incubator and Accelerator Programs
Other forms of Calls for Applications

Question 3

Evaluation Form Builder: Tips and Details

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1- Insert the Submission Title.

|| Putting the Submission Title is a must for the evaluation form to function.

Evaluation Fields

2- Design your evaluation criteria: The "Criterion" field is used to evaluate submissions. You may choose to add as many Criterion fields as necessary depending on the aspects you're looking to evaluate in submissions.

|| You can always add other fields to further elaborate your evaluation form like a Paragraph Text for judges to leave a feedback or Radio buttons to determine whether the applicants met a specific criteria in their submissions or not.

Criterion field

3- Once you're done with building your evaluation criteria, make sure to add a "Total Score" field at the end and mark it as to contain the final Evaluation Score.

An example preview for the Evaluation Form:

Fields Preview

Question 4

Creating a new program

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# Creating a new program

Login to your account
On the left-hand side of the dashboard, you will find the Spaces menu
Choose the space from which you want to create a platform
On the right-hand side choose the platform
In the middle of the page click on “New Program”

Choose the logo, name, default language, timezone, and Program URL, and press create.

Note: The default URL is “YOURPROGRAMNAME.untapinnovate.com” but you can always opt for a custom domain according to your subscription plan.

Another way to create a program (if you have one created already) is shown in the screenshot below:

After logging in to your account you will land on your platform dashboard where you can create a New Program by clicking on the “+” above the new program as shown in the image above.

Question 5

Add an Administrator

Accepted Answer

Add an Administrator

Adding administrators to your competition can reduce the workload by allowing multiple users to make administrative changes to your account.

||| An administrator can make changes to the settings of the competition.

First click on Users, then click on Add New

If the user exists within our network already, then add the new administrator in the first section.

Add an existing user as an Administrator

If the user does not exist within our network, then add the administrator in the second section.

Add a new Administrator

Question 6

Create More Rounds

Accepted Answer

Create More Rounds

Q: What is Untap Compete?

What is Untap Compete? Untap Compete is a software that lets organizations easily and quickly plan, launch, and manage online prize-based competitions, hackathons, open innovation challenges, accelerator &amp; incubator programs, scholarship programs, grants programs, and other forms of calls for applications. It streamlines the process of building a dedicated website, receiving and managing submissions, engaging with the participants, and evaluating the submissions. Untap Compete also provides an innovative Round Engine; enabling program organizers to manage the whole funnel of their program in one place qualifying participants from one round to the next. The software provides a website builder for setting up and customizing a website for the call for applications that can include any relevant content. The website also includes an “Apply Now” page for interested participants to sign up (or log in) to their accounts and make a submission. Interested participants can sign up to access their dedicated account and be able to submit their applications and monitor status updates regarding their submissions. In addition to the website, Organizer(s) receive access to a dedicated account on Untap Compete. The account enables the Organizer to create new calls for applications and manage existing ones. Organizer(s) manage the whole process on their dedicated Untap Compete dashboard. They build the application form, customize the landing page, and monitor the submissions. They c

Q: Why Untap Compete?

Why Untap Compete? Untap Compete is a simple and customizable submission management software that streamlines running calls for applications saving the time and effort spent on mundane admin work. Rather than screening dozens, hundreds, and sometimes thousands of submissions in hard-to-maintain spreadsheets and having to figure out workarounds for communicating with participants and for evaluating submissions, we enable program organizers to focus on the tasks that really matter from planning their program to reaching out to the right candidates to selecting and working with the top participants while assessing their program impact. What Untap Compete can do for you Create your own customizable landing page to brand your call for applications, build the submission form and receive any number of submissions, easily send emails to all participants or judges, build evaluation forms and assign judges to evaluate submissions, manage the entire funnel of your program with any number of rounds in one place, export your data at any time and much more! Our customers use Untap Compete for these types of programs: <ul> <li>Student Competitions</li> <li>Startup Competitions</li> <li>Creative Competitions</li> <li>Design Competitions</li> <li>Employee Programs</li> <li>Awards Programs</li> <li>Innovation Challenges</li> <li>Online Hackathons</li> <li>Scholarship Programs</li> <li>Grants Programs</li> <li>Hiring Events</li> <li>Internship Programs</li> <li>Incubator and Accelerator Programs</li> <li>Other forms of Calls for Applications</li> </ul>

Q: Creating a new program

# Creating a new program <ol> <li>Login to your account</li> <li>On the left-hand side of the dashboard, you will find the Spaces menu </li> <li>Choose the space from which you want to create a platform </li> <li>On the right-hand side choose the platform </li> <li>In the middle of the page click on “New Program”</li> </ol> <img src="https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/3db1fb2e56e01c00/unnamed_oiurip.png" alt="" /> <ol start="6"> <li>Choose the logo, name, default language, timezone, and Program URL, and press create.</li> </ol> <img src="https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/3db1fb2e56e01c00/image_8ftxp8.png" alt="" /> Note: The default URL is “YOURPROGRAMNAME.untapinnovate.com” but you can always opt for a custom domain according to your subscription plan. Another way to create a program (if you have one created already) is shown in the screenshot below: <img src="https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/3db1fb2e56e01c00/image_ygo40k.png" alt="" /> After logging in to your account you will land on your platform dashboard where you can create a New Program by clicking on the “+” above the new program as shown in the image above.

Q: Create More Rounds

<h1 id="createmorerounds">Create More Rounds</h1> <ul> <li>Click New Round on your dashboard menu.</li> <li>Add the round name.</li> <li>Check Make it an evaluation round if you will not ask the applicant for other submissions.</li> <li>Choose Submission and Evaluation start and end dates.</li> <li>Click Create Round.</li> <li>Refresh the page to manage your round.</li> </ul> <img src="https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/3db1fb2e56e01c00/chromeizm7ylqqyv_h7wl3h.gif" alt="" />

Click New Round on your dashboard menu.
Add the round name.
Check Make it an evaluation round if you will not ask the applicant for other submissions.
Choose Submission and Evaluation start and end dates.
Click Create Round.
Refresh the page to manage your round.

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