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      Create & Manage Evaluation Plans

      Evaluation Plans are for gathering feedback for your submitted sessions by outside evaluators (i.e. committees) using a rating/grading scale.

      Create Evaluation Plans

      Within the Sessions module, select Evaluation > Evaluation Plans
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      To create a plan click the orange "Add Plan" button to the right of the page. Within the pop-up window, you will edit five areas: Configuration, Evaluators, Grading Options, Display Fields, and Session Filters.
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      Configuration

      • Name: Evaluation Plan Name. This plan name will be visible to your evaluators.

      • Instructions: Instructions can include rich text/HTML formatting such as bulleted lists, bold text, and hyperlinks.

      • Set the plan as open once it has been created: If enabled, you can establish a due date. If this remains disabled/closed, you can open the plan after it has been created and establish a due date.

      • Enable Anonymized Review: All speaker details will be removed from submissions. Evaluators will only be able to review and grade submissions based on session data received.

      • Enable Weekly Reminders: Send an email to evaluators when there are sessions to review in their plan. Send frequency is weekly on Mondays and 1 day before the due date.

      • Include Uploaded Content: If you have enabled Content, then any content that was submitted by the speaker(s) will be included in the evaluation plan.

      Evaluators

      For evaluators to be added to an evaluation plan, they must first be added as an Evaluator or Evaluator Session Manager to the event.

      💡TIP: Use Tags to easily view segmented users and assign them to your plans.

      👉🏾 Learn how to create tags & assign tags to users.

      NOTE: An evaluation plan must be closed to add OR remove users from the plan.

      Grading Options

      NOTE: Rating Icons and Rubrics can not be edited once the evaluation plan has been created.

      • Rating Icon: Rating values can be adjusted between a scale of 2-5 (The heart and star icons can increase to a scale of 20).

      • Enable Rubric: Rubrics allow your evaluators to rate the submission using the criteria you have created within the Rubric. Each criterion is weighted to provide you with an average cumulative score. The character count for each criterion may not exceed 255 characters.

      Admin Set Up View

      Evaluator View (Rubric + Rating Icons)

      Display Fields

      Choose the session and speakers fields that should be visible to evaluators when grading submissions.


      ​Additionally, create custom evaluation fields/questions that your Evaluators can view and answer

      Example Evaluation Fields:

      • Would you recommend this session for the event? (Dropdown - Yes/No)

      • External Comments (Textbox)

      • Internal Comments (Textbox)

      • Select the core value that this session aligns with. (Dropdown)

      Session Filters

      Filter your evaluation plan by levels, languages, tracks, tags, format, and status to assign specific submissions to your plan.

      Learn more about the Evaluator view within Sessionboard

      Manage Evaluation Plan Fields

      View, create, and manage all evaluation plan fields from the Fields module. This will allow admins to reuse Evaluation Plan fields on multiple plans without having to duplicate the same questions.

      All fields that are created in an Evaluation Plan are saved to the event level and can be accessed from any evaluation plan. New fields that are created within the Field module are accessible when creating/editing Evaluation Plans.
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      Open Evaluation Plans

      If you have chosen to keep the evaluation plan closed during setup, you can open it at a later day by clicking the three ellipse dots to the right of the evaluation plan and selecting "Open".

      Opening the plan gives your evaluators access to start grading the submissions. Closed evaluation plans show the submissions in a 'view only' mode.

      You will be prompted with two options:

      1. Open and notify evaluators

        1. Evaluators will receive the below email once this button is selected.
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      2. Open and do not send notifications: If you select this option, you will be required to notify your evaluators that they can begin completing their evaluations.

      Additional Actions:

      • Export Evaluation Plans: Event admins can export detailed information from graded evaluation plans.
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        Choose which version you want to export:

        • Individual Grades Report - This provides a breakdown of session grading by the evaluator, including their comments and criteria rankings with weighted scores

        • Cumulative Grades Report - This provides a summarized view of grades per session, including data from the session submission and session owner information.

      • Delete Evaluation Plans: Deleting an evaluation plan removes the plan completely from the admin user as well as the evaluators assigned. Deleted plans can not be recovered.

      • Duplicate Evaluation Plans: Duplicating an evaluation plan will create a copy of the plan you duplicated. All plan settings (i.e. name, instructions, evaluators assigned, rubric, rating icons, and filters) will be cloned with the ability to edit them before the cloned plan is saved.

      • Notify New Evaluators To Grade Submissions: Choose to either send an invitation email to all evaluators or newly assigned evaluators informing them that they can log into Sessionboard and grade submissions.

      👉🏾NEXT STEPS: Notify Accepted & Declined Sessions

      Once you have received feedback from your evaluators on sessions, you can update the submission status and send an email notifying the submission speakers.