The rating panel opens for members on the Semester, Annual, Studio and Institutional plans. If you are on Monthly or Weekly, or your membership has lapsed, the Rate this project button still appears on every project, but selecting it takes you to a message instead of a scoring panel. The same happens on work you are credited on: you cannot rate a project you are a team member of.
Nothing on the project page says which plans can rate before you select the button, so this reads as a fault when it is a plan boundary.
Four plans open the panel, two do not
- Semester, Annual, Studio and Institutional open the rating panel.
- Monthly and Weekly do not. You will see "Your current membership plan does not include project rating", with a link to the plans.
- No active membership shows "Upgrade to Semester, Annual, Studio, or Institutional plan to rate projects". A plan that has expired reads the same as never having had one, so check your membership is still running before assuming the page is broken.
- Signed out, the panel offers you a login and a sign up link rather than a message about plans.
Membership tiers and pricing covers what each plan carries.
You cannot rate a project you are on the team of
The check covers everyone listed on the project team, not only the person who created it. If you are a collaborator on the work you will see "You cannot rate your own project", and no upgrade link, because upgrading would not change it. That applies whether the project is yours alone or you were invited onto the team.
You score criteria, not the project
Rating is not a single star. The panel gives you a list of criteria, and you score them one at a time:
- Choose a criterion from Select Criterion to Rate.
- Move the slider. Every criterion runs from 1 to 10.
- Select Save Rating.
You hold one score per criterion. Score as few or as many criteria as you want, and a criterion you have not scored counts for nothing. To change a score, choose that criterion again, move the slider and save. To take it back, choose the criterion and select Remove. Both are open to you for as long as the project is up.
The criteria are a fixed set that UNI has verified, shared by every project. They are not written by the project's author, and the author cannot add or remove any.
What your rating does
The number on the project's score card is the average of every score every rater has given it, across all criteria. That number and the count of ratings behind it are public, and the Top Rated sort on project browse orders by exactly that average. Your rating also feeds the project's internal score, weighted by the profile score of whoever gave it, so a rating from an established member moves the project more than one from a new account.
What is not shown is a leaderboard of raters. The panel loads your own scores only, and the project page publishes the average and the count, never a list of who scored what.
If the panel still will not open
Check, in this order: that you are signed in on the account that carries the membership, that the membership is currently active rather than expired, and that you are not on the project's team. If all three are clear and the panel still shows a message, reach human support with the project address.
Jury scoring in a competition is a separate system with its own access rules. See How jury evaluation and results work.