Are you trying to decide if you should use a Comments & Ratings Combination or Form Designer routing step to collect scores? The differences described below should help:
Comments & Ratings Combination
Reviewer Experience
- Reviewers will see as many box + scale combinations as selected. For example, a 4 Comments & Ratings Combination would show 4 boxes, each with its own rating scale below.
- Comment box is required for each criterion or question. (If you don't need comments from reviewers, you may want to instruct them to type "N/A" or similar in the box. Otherwise, the system won't let them submit.)
- Rating scale is required part of each criterion or question. If a rating isn't required, you could use a 0-1 scale, but be careful, because this will affect automatic calculations in reporting (see next section).
Reporting
- More automatic calculations are done for you, specifically in the following reports:
- Application & Applicant Details
- Total Application Scores by Reviewer
- Rankings by Score
Reviewer Experience
- Reviewers will see exactly how the questions are created. For example, there could be 4 rating scale questions and 1 comment box.
- Administrators can use Rating Scales, Multiple Choice, or Dropdown question types to collect ratings.
- Text Areas work best for comments.
Reporting
- Administrators have to do more calculations after downloading the Excel file(s).
- The Raw Review Data or Reviewer Details tab of the Application & Applicant Details is the best place to start.
- To quickly transform responses to actual numbers in Excel:
1. Highlight (left click on the letter) the column that has the numbers.
2. Click the Data tab at the top.
3. Click Text to Columns.
4. Click Finish.
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