Add performance activity participants manually

After setting up performance activities, you may add assign an activity to audiences or organisations and positions. However, Peer, Mentor, Reviewer and External respondents are manually populated relationships. This means that for each subject instance of the activity these relationships need to be manually selected. The activity creator can set who should perform that manual population (per instance), i.e. be the 'selector' by following these steps:

1. Go to Quick access > Activity management. 
2. Click the name of the activity you wish to manually set participants for.
3. Open the General tab of the activity.
4. Under the Selection of participants setting choose the selector from the following users: 
   • The subject themselves
   • Manager
   • Manager's Manager
   • Appraiser
5. Click Save changes when you are done. 

More information

The user(s) acting as selector(s) will receive a notification that they need to perform this selection. Once a manually populated relationship has been invoked in the activity (by adding them as a participant on at least one section), that selection will have to take place to enable it to proceed. It's possible that multiple 'selectors' are identified for a particular manually populated relationship (for example because multiple users fulfil the role of 'manager') however only one of those users needs to make a selection for the activity to proceed.

Regardless of whether manual relationships are being used in the the activity, the Selection of participants setting will always appear on the General tab. This setting can simply be ignored if you do not require relationships to be set manually. 

Example

As an illustration of how this setting can be used let's look at an example where you want to create an activity in which a subject's peers should participate. Using the Selection of participants setting on the General tab you can decide who the most appropriate person is to select these participants (since 'peer' is not a formally represented relationship in Totara). You can decide if the subject should choose the peers they want to participant themselves, or if the subject's manager should select the peers to ensure impartiality. 

Next steps

• Add external participants
• Activate a performance activity