Participants and organizers

Contest settings manage participation and administration separately. Add people who will solve problems in Participants. Add people who will manage the contest in Organizers. Organizers do not need to be added as participants separately.

Each section has Users and Groups tabs. With open registration, you don't need to add external participants manually: they can register themselves. With closed registration, add participants so they can access the contest page in the participant interface. With either registration method, internal users must be added to the contest.

Participants

Add a participant

To add a user, open Participants:

1. On the Users tab, click Add user.
2. Select Find participant, enter a login in the search bar, and select one or more users from the results.
3. Click Add. The users appear in the contest participant list.

Participants don't need an assigned role: organizer roles aren't selected in this section.

To add a participant group, on the Groups tab, click Add group, find and select the group, then click Add. Group members get access to the contest. For more information about creating groups, see Internal and external users.

Add a team

Participants create teams in the participant interface. To add an existing team to a contest:

1. In Participants, on the Users tab, click Add user.
2. Select Find team, enter the team name in the search bar, and select the team.
3. Click Add.

Rename participants

To change one participant's display name, click the edit icon next to their name on the Users tab, enter the new name, and press Enter.

To change several names, click Change display names and upload a text file. Put each participant on a separate line in the format login display name. Everything after the first space is used as the display name.

Set an individual start

In an interval contest, you can let a participant start on their own or set a start time for them. On the Users tab, enable Allow individual start in the participant's row, or select a date and time from the calendar in the Start time column. Whether participants can start on their own also depends on the contest-wide setting.

Connect a learning platform through LTI

LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) connects a contest to a learning platform. Participants open the contest from the platform and register automatically. The platform receives their results from Yandex Contest.

To set up the connection:

1. Open the contest and select Settings → Integrations in the left menu.
2. Under LTI provider, click Add.
3. Enter the LTI integration name, Consumer key, and Secret. The key and secret must match the values on the learning platform.
4. Click Save.

For parameter descriptions, see the Reference.

Organizers

Add an organizer

To grant access to contest administration, open Organizers. On the Users tab, click Add organizer, find a user by login, select them, and click Add. Then assign one or more roles in the Role column:

Role	Permissions
admin	Administrator. Can view and edit contest settings in the admin interface. Their submissions are not counted in the contest leaderboard.
judge	Judge. Can open the judge's leaderboard, view participants' questions and submissions, and answer questions. Cannot change contest settings.
coordinator	Coordinator. Can change the contest type, start time, duration, and individual participant start times, and view submissions and results. Cannot access verification reports or other contest settings.

The contest creator appears with the owner role. This role cannot be assigned to another user from the role list.

Assign a role to a group

To assign a role to a group, on the Groups tab, click Add group, find and add the group, then select a role in its row. In the user list, the Group role and Role columns complement each other: a user's individual role does not override a role granted through a group. For more information about creating groups, see Internal and external users.

Remove a participant or organizer

To remove an individual participant or organizer, click the delete icon in their row on the Users tab. Remove a group on the Groups tab of the corresponding section. Removing a participant from Participants does not revoke their organizer roles.

To remove all participants, click Delete all participants in Participants. Organizers has a separate Delete all button for bulk removal. Check which section is open before deleting.

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