This article covers the cycle collaborator role in a performance review cycle — from setup through final reporting. For participant and manager perspectives, see Understand your role as a participant in a performance review cycle and What managers do in a performance review cycle.
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Available on: Perform and Total Platform pricing packages. Relevant to: Cycle collaborators.
Feature Structure
Cycle collaborators have most of the same permissions as review admins, with the following differences:
| Action | Review Admin | Cycle Collaborator |
|---|---|---|
| Create review cycles from scratch | ✓ | ✗ |
| Create or edit question templates | ✓ | ✗ |
| Delete review cycles | ✓ | ✗ |
| Complete cycle setup | ✓ | ✓ |
| Edit review cycle settings | ✓ | ✓ |
| Monitor review progress via reporting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manage peers for participants | ✓ | ✓ |
| Share and finalize review results | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lock or unlock an assigned review cycle | ✓ | ✓ (assigned cycles only) |
| View all submitted reviews | ✓ | ✓ |
Key Rules
- Cycle collaborators cannot create review cycles from scratch, edit question templates, or delete review cycles.
- Cycle collaborators can only lock or unlock review cycles that are assigned to them.
- Locking a cycle prevents further submissions or edits. Lock only after all reviews are complete and summary meetings are finished.
- Once results are shared, submitted reviews cannot be edited. To allow edits, unshare results first, then re-share the updated review.
- Peer nomination management applies only to review cycles that include peer reviews.
What You Can Do
Set Up
- Create and launch a manual review cycle
- Add or remove a review cycle participant
- Understand the Edit Individual Settings (EIS) page
Manage
- Approve, deny, or remove peer nominations for a participant
- Track the status of peer nominations in a review cycle
- Nudge a person to respond to a peer nomination
- Send nudges to review timeline participants
- Clone, edit, or delete a calibration session
- Download calibration session data
- Complete a review summary for a participant
- Undo shared and finalized reviews
- Clone a review cycle
Analyze
- Monitor Progress in a Review Cycle
- Performance Review Downloads — Overview and Role Access
- Export a person's performance review results
Related Articles
- Performance review cycle — Admin overview
- What managers do in a performance review cycle
- Understand your role as a participant in a performance review cycle
- Review types in a performance review cycle
- Send nudges to review timeline participants
- Approve, deny, or remove peer nominations for a participant
- Track the status of peer nominations in a review cycle
- Monitor Progress in a Review Cycle
- Complete a review summary for a participant
- Performance Review Downloads — Overview and Role Access
- Export a person's performance review results
- Clone, edit, or delete a calibration session
- Download calibration session data