Introduction to Assessment & Evaluation

Create and distribute learner assessments & faculty evaluation items

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Introduction to Assessment & Evaluation

The Assessment & Evaluation Module in Elentra is predominantly used to assess learner performance in a clinical environment, and provide multiple user groups with the ability to evaluate faculty, courses/programs, and other activities within the context of your organization.  The module allows users to build survey like forms and deliver them to a group of users to complete.

Features of the module include:

  • Create & manage scales and assessment response categories for use across your organization
  • Create form items, forms, & configure form distribution methods
  • Manage assigned forms from the administrator, faculty, and learner view
  • Report on the results & completion rate of forms
  • Connect forms to gradebook assessments to automatically grade the form and collect the grade in the associated gradebook.

Note: Elentra makes a distinction between the words assessment and evaluation.

  • Assessment: If a form is used to assess learners, it's an assessment.
  • Evaluation: If a form is used to evaluate courses/programs, faculty, learning events, rotations, etc. it is an evaluation.

It is important to understand this distinction because when setting up a delivery method (a distribution) for a form different options will be presented in the set up.

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Permissions Overview

Create Scales:
Medtech: Admin

Create & Edit Form Items & Forms:
Medtech: Admin
Staff: Admin
Staff: PCoordinator
Faculty: Admin
Faculty: Director

Create & Edit Distributions:

Medtech: Admin
Staff: Admin
Staff: PCoordinator
Faculty: Admin
Faculty: Director

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Assessment & Evaluation Pre-Conditions

In order to use all features of the Assessment & Evaluation module, the following components must be built within Elentra:

  1. Set up your Organization (all the following steps are required per Organization)
  2. Upload the admin, faculty & student users in the Manage Users module
  3. Create Curriculum Layouts & Periods
  4. Create courses within the above curriculum layouts
  5. Enroll students in their course/program (course audience)
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Database Settings
Database Setting Description Default Setting
flagging_notifications   ON
include_name_in_flagged_notifications
Defines whether or not to include names of users in prompted response notifications in A&E items
ON
enable_prompted_responses_comments_and_reviews
Controls the visibility of a Prompted Responses tab for staff and faculty users who receive prompted response notifications.
OFF
unauthenticated_internal_assessments
Impacts email notifications sent to assessors. If enabled, allows distributed assessments to be completed by internal assessors without logging in via a unique hash provided via email
OFF
disable_distribution_assessor_notifications
This goes hand in hand with unauthenticated_internal_assessments and enable_distribution_assessor_summary_notifications. When using unauthenticated distribution assessments, you probably want an single summary email with a link to each task rather than an email for each new task. This disables the per-task reminders.
OFF
enable_distribution_assessor_summary_notifications
This adjusts the emails for distribution assessments to have a nightly summary of all new tasks, and then a weekly summary of tasks that are still incomplete.
OFF
assessment_tasks_show_all_multiphase_assessments   OFF
assessment_delegation_auto_submit_single_target
On by default, controls whether or not a page will auto submit when there is a single target in a delegation task
ON
assessment_display_tasks_from_removed_assessors
When enabled, will display assessment tasks from assessors that have been removed from the distribution
ON
assessment_triggered_by_target
For adhoc distributions only, controls whether or not a target can initiate a form. Enabled by default.
ON
assessment_triggered_by_assessor
For adhoc distributions only, controls whether or not a target can initiate a form. Enabled by default.
ON
assessment_method_complete_and_confirm_by_pin
For adhoc distributions only, controls the available form completion method. Enabled by default.
ON
assessment_method_send_blank_form
For adhoc distributions only, controls whether or not a target can initiate a form. Enabled by default.
ON
evaluation_data_visible
Can be used to restrict users from opening individual, completed evaluation tasks. If turned on, it  allows staff:pcoordinator and faculty:director to access evaluation responses.
OFF
show_evaluator_data
Can be used to hide names of evaluators from distribution progress reports, the Admin > A&E Dashboard, and reports. If enabled, it allows staff:pcoordinator and faculty:director to see evaluator name (if disabled, it will say "Confidential" as the name)
OFF

cbme_ondemand_start_assessment

 Displays the "Initiate Assessment/Evaluation" button on Learner & Faculty dashboard.

ON

cbme_ondemand_start_assessment_shortcut_button

Optional, if selected a short cut icon will be displayed to learner in their cbme dashboard beside corresponding EPAs

ON

cbme_ondemand_start_assessment_add_assessor

Optional, if selected you will have the ability to add new assessors. 

OFF

cbme_ondemand_start_assessment_director_as_staff_workflow

Toggle whether faculty directors get the staff workflow view. Default is off (0) - all faculty get the faculty workflow view

OFF

cbme_ondemand_start_assessment_replace_admin_trigger

To toggle whether the “Trigger Assessment” button on /admin/assessments gets switched over to use the workflow view. Default is off (0).

OFF

cbme_ondemand_expiry

Enable to apply an expiry date for tasks generated from on demand workflows.

ON

cbme_ondemand_expiry_offset

If cbme_ondemand_expiry is in use, define the period of time after which an on demand task will expire.

+7 days

cbme_ondemand_expiry_workflow_shortnames

If cbme_ondemand_expiry is in use, define which workflow types it applies to.

[none]

cbme_assessment_form_embargo

For organizations with CBME enabled, the option allows you to hide rubric forms until certain conditions are met.

OFF

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