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User manual for translators

Overview

You have been invited by Translators without Borders to access their translation center powered by ProZ.com, an automated platform used by Translators without Borders to assign translation-related jobs to their trusted translators, and to support interactions and communications related to the job.

When a job is released in this platform, notifications are sent out in batches of 5, sent in 15-minute intervals,to the translators who meet the corresponding requirements.

Translators are invited to a job posting page where they can evaluate the tasks offered and eventually accept one or more of them. The first notified translator who accepts a task will have it assigned. Once all tasks have been accepted, a job is closed and no longer available to other interested translators.

Your dashboard

The Dashboard option in the top menu will offer you access to all your assignments in three separate tabs:

  • Active assignments: the tasks you are translating
  • Available tasks: tasks you could accept
  • Completed assignments: tasks you completed

On the right side of the platform you will be able to manage your availability on the platform, and to view your basis statistics (words translated and tasks completed).

Your assignments

The Assignments option in the top menu will offer you:

  • Your assignments: tasks that have been assigned to you, including a tool to search assignments
  • Your available tasks: tasks that have not been assigned to anyone yet, and that you are eligible to accept

Your profile

At the right of the top menu you will be able to:

  • View your profile, including displayed name, location, languages and subject areas and workspace statistics (words translated and tasks completed)
    • Language and subject areas can only be modified by Translators without Borders
  • Edit your profile: first and last name, email, country, displayed name and profile visibility
    • Pictures are displayed only when the profile is associated with a ProZ.com profile (same picture displayed)
  • Log-out

Job pages

Once you accept a task in a job posting page, or when a task is manually assigned to you, you will have access to the page corresponding to the job, where you will find:

  • Four tabs on top:
    • Overview: general information on the job
    • Source files: files to be translated
    • Supporting material: not to be translated, only for reference
    • Client information: general information on the client
  • To the right of this screen you will find boxes displaying the status of the job, people on the job and members online.
  • Below the summary you will find the workflow areas:
    • Sourcing: related to the assignment of tasks to translators
    • Translating: Includes all the tasks to be translated or edited. This area will hold the task(s) assigned to you and to other translators, sometimes including also tasks not yet assigned. If you want to accept one or more additional tasks, you can do so here.
    • Delivery: Includes the files translated into the target language or edited. These files will automatically appear in the delivery area when tasks are completed.
    • The comments area that should be used for all communications related to the job. Comments will be visible and notified to the "people on the job", including the client, the PM, editors and other translators.
    • Files can be attached to the comments.
  • In the boxes corresponding to each of the tasks assigned to you, you will find:
    • The deadline for delivery
    • The file to be downloaded for translation or editing.
    • A button for uploading the file you translated or edited.
    • Once you uploaded the processed file, you will see a button to "mark task as complete".
    • The maximum upload file size is 10MB