After you successfully enroll in an Event, you can access your Responses from the home page or the My Events page. If the Event or round has not yet begun, the Grit Test will email you when the event or round begins.
How to Respond to Events
1. After enrolling in an Event and that Event is open, access the Response phase from the To Do section of your home page or by clicking My Events on the top left.
2. Click the Responses Due button from the home page or the Respond button on your My Events page to begin.
3. Read the directions, then click the play button to watch the video prompt. Once you watch the prompt, you can record, review, and submit a one-minute response video.
Please Note: If you have already saved your response, you will see the See Saved Response button on the top right of your Video response. Click this to review your previous recording. This button will not appear if there is no previous recording.
4. Check your camera and microphone sources and test. Click the Gear icon in the bottom right of your video to update the camera effects, playback, delay, audio source, and video source.
5. When you are ready to respond, click the Record button.
6. After the countdown, your Time Remaining begins and you may record. Click the Stop button when you complete your response.
7. You can click the Reset Recording button if you need another attempt. This brings you back to step 3. Once you are satisfied with your response, click the Review and Save button.
8. On the pop up, click Cancel if you would like to retry and record again or click Save if you'd like to save the video to your Event.
9. After the video is saved, the Video Upload complete pop-up appears. Click Review Transcript to review and edit the transcript or click the Close button to save the response and return to that prompt. Now that the video is saved, you can click the Next button on the Response Saved section on the bottom to move to the next prompt or use the Next button below the video.
Please Note: After you save your response, you can view the Saved Response from the prompt page by clicking the See Saved Response button on the top right. You can re-record your Response using steps 3-9 above using the Record button.
10. Repeat steps 3-9 for every prompt.
Please Note: Before you submit your responses, you can navigate through each response using the buttons on the top left of the Prompts page or the Previous and Next buttons below your video recording. From there you can review past responses and record new ones.
11. Once you save all responses and are satisfied with each, submit them to your Event using the Submit button on the top right.
12. Click Submit on the Responses Submit pop-up to submit your responses then or click close for a chance to re-record your videos and submit later.
Please Note: Any recorded responses will be submitted automatically at the end of the Response Phase.
Congratulations, you completed the Response Phase for that round! The Grit Test will email you when it is time for the Review Phase for that round.
Events with Multiple Rounds
If your Event has Multiple Rounds then follow all steps in the instructions above for your first round.
After you review the responses from the last round in which you participated, you may qualify for the next round!
How to Respond to Events with Multiple Rounds
1. If you qualify for an additional round, you will receive an email when the next Round in your Event opens.
2. When the next round opens, access the Response phase from the To Do section of your home page or by clicking My Events on the top left.
Please Note: On your My Events page, along with the information described above, additional Rounds may also display your Score and Rank from past rounds as well as provide the Reviews of Me, My Results, Current Rankings, and View Leaders buttons, which will take you to their respective tabs on the My Results page. For more information, see our Help Center article, My Results Page.
3. Click the Responses Due button from the home page or the Respond button on your My Events page to begin the next round of responses.
4. Follow steps 3 through 11 in the above section, How to Respond to Events.
You completed the Response Phase for this round! The Grit Test will email you when it is time for the Review Phase for that round.
Follow the instructions in this section for any additional round until all rounds are completed.
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