What to do first
Open the dashboard and look at the cycle banner. It tells you which phase the cycle is in, how many days are left, and what is waiting on you. Your own review tasks sit directly underneath it.
A cycle
A cycle has a name, a type, a start, a due date and a phase. Types are quarterly, annual, mid year and probation.
It passes through six phases in order:
- Nomination. Who will give peer feedback on whom.
- Self assessment. Everybody rates and writes about their own performance.
- Peer 360. The nominated peers give their input.
- Manager evaluation. Each manager writes up their people.
- Calibration. Ratings are compared across the organisation and adjusted.
- Published. People can read their own outcome.
The order is not decoration. It decides whether a piece of review work is due yet. A self review is not outstanding during nomination, because the cycle has not asked for it, and chasing somebody for it then is how a reminder becomes noise.
Self assessment
Rate yourself against the competency framework, and write about the period. The objectives and feedback from the cycle are there while you write, which is the point of recording them as they happened.
Peer 360
The input from the people who were nominated. Ratings against the same competencies, plus comments.
Manager evaluation
A manager's write up of each person: competency ratings, the narrative, and a final recommendation. The self assessment and the peer input are visible while writing.
Calibration
Ratings laid out across the organisation so they can be compared and adjusted. This is the step that stops one department's "exceeds" meaning something different from another's.
Summary
One person's review assembled: self, peers, manager and the calibrated outcome, in one document.
A manager opens a person's summary from the dashboard or from Calibration, and moves on to their Manager evaluation or to Calibration from there.
History
Past cycles and past outcomes, so a review can be read in the context of the ones before it. History opens at rople.app/w/reviews?screen=history; the dashboard has no button to it yet.
Reviews on the workspace's cycles
A review measures performance, and performance is measured over the workspace's cycles (Intelligence › Cycles), so the two are one and the same: each cycle has at most one review, named after it and due when it ends.
- The owner is asked. As a cycle nears its end — a week before a month ends, thirty days before a quarter or anything longer, in proportion for a cycle drawn by hand, or the number of days the workspace chose — the workspace owner sees "Q4 2026 ends in 30 days. Start its performance review?" when they next open Rople, with an inbox notice the same morning. Start the review, Remind me tomorrow, or No review this cycle. A workspace admin can also start it from the cycle on Intelligence › Cycles. See Cycles.
- Everybody is asked. Starting it opens the review in its self-assessment phase, enrols everybody in the workspace, and asks each of them — on screen and in the inbox — to do their self-review. Start my review goes straight to it; Not now asks again the next day. A review cycle already drafted for the same dates is used rather than a second one made.
- It comes first. From the day before the cycle ends, somebody who has not submitted their self-review sees a screen saying so wherever they go in the workspace, with Go to my review. The review page is the one page left open. Once it is submitted, the rest of Rople opens again. A draft is not enough; it has to be submitted.
All of this is switched on and off, and timed, with the rest of the organisation's settings, in Organisation › Structure › Cycles & reviews: whether reviews run on the cycles, when the owner is asked, and whether the self-review comes first from the day before the end. The Cycle settings button on Intelligence › Cycles goes to the same place. A workspace admin changes these; each workspace follows only its own choice. See Admin.
Review rounds
Where: rople.app/w/admin?screen=cycles, the last row under People › Performance.
The workspace's cycles, each with its review round inside it: where a round is made, its window set, and its phase moved on. It is open to managers (level 3) and above, the same seats that can open Admin.
Every review round belongs to one cycle, and a cycle has one review round. A round is named after its cycle ("Q4 2026 review"), its type follows the cycle's length, and it has an Opens on and a Closes on date inside the cycle, a status (Planned, Open, Closed or Skipped) and a phase. The rounds are a table of round, cycle, phase, status and progress; press a round to see and change it. A cycle that is not closed and has no round yet is listed under the table with Add its review round. A few workspaces also have an Extra round in a cycle, kept from before rounds belonged to cycles; it can be read but not changed.
When reviews run on the workspace's cycles, a cycle's review is opened as above and its dates are the cycle's; the phases are still moved on here, and the screen says so at the top. Otherwise a round is made here with Start a review round and opened when you are ready; nothing is made for you.
The work inside a cycle happens in Reviews.
How it connects
- Review work waiting on you appears in My work under Reviews and in your Inbox.
- Objectives from Goals and KPIs and feedback from Feedback are the evidence a review reads.
- The competency framework is set in Organisation › Structure › Competency Framework.
- Each cycle's review is on its record in Intelligence › Cycles.
- Completion rates and rating distributions appear in People analytics.
Common questions
Why can I not start my self assessment? Because the cycle has not reached that phase yet. It opens when the phase does.
Can I see my peers' individual ratings? No. Peer input is aggregated in what you read. Your manager sees more of it, which is what lets them weigh it.
When does my manager's evaluation become visible to me? At publication, not before. Calibration can change a rating, and showing a number that is about to move helps nobody.
Who sets the competencies? The competency framework in Organisation › Structure. Changing it changes what everybody is rated against, so it is a workspace level decision.
Where did Review rounds go? It is under People › Performance now, beside Reviews. It still opens the same Admin screen, at rople.app/w/admin?screen=cycles.