Submissions
The Submissions tab is your program's paper roster, split into two sub-tabs, All Submissions for browsing and managing every paper, and Desk Screening for clearing the policy-flag queue.
Purpose
The Submissions tab is where every paper submitted to your program lives. In a Full-tier program running Direct review it is split into two sub-tabs:
- All Submissions: the full roster, a sortable, filterable table of every paper with status counts, author tools, PDF downloads, email, and delete/restore controls.
- Desk Screening: a focused queue of papers that tripped a desk-rejection policy check, where you confirm or dismiss each flagged paper.
When you use it
- To find, sort, and inspect any paper in your program.
- To download submission PDFs or look up an author's profile.
- To email one paper's authors or a selection of them at once.
- To soft-delete, restore, or permanently remove withdrawn papers.
- To work through papers your policy checks flagged for possible desk rejection.
The Desk Screening sub-tab appears for Standard and Light programs, and for Full-tier programs running Direct review. It does not appear for programs using Instant AI Review or Two-Stage Rolling Review. When it is hidden, the Submissions tab shows the All Submissions table on its own.
Walkthrough
- 1
Open the Program Chair Console, select your program, and click the Submissions tab.
- 2
Use the sub-tab bar to switch between All Submissions and Desk Screening.
- 3
Start in All Submissions to browse the roster, filter by status, and open individual papers. The Category column shows each submission's category (plus its type of Paper, Abstract or Proposal when the program offers several) and its publication (Archival / Non-archival, or whether an abstract is published). Flags beside Status point out rare cases raised by the author's answers, such as Prior reviews attached to a previously rejected paper; filter by category, round (when the call has rounds) or flag with the menus next to the status buttons. Export CSV saves the listed submissions with every answer, link and affirmation (an affirmation of a statement that changed since reads "earlier wording"). A submission's page lists the same items under Submission Items.
- 4
Switch to Desk Screening to clear any papers waiting in the policy-flag queue.
Tips
Use All Submissions for day-to-day browsing, author contact, and cleanup. Use Desk Screening only for papers your desk-rejection policy flagged; its queue is empty until a submission trips a check.