Establish Custom Ratings Criteria and/or a Blind Review
Administrators and Committee Managers can set custom evaluation criteria for rating applicants on a five-star scale. It is also possible to set up a Blind Review in which Evaluators will not see the comments and ratings left by others. Custom ratings criteria and/or a blind review can be set during the process of creating a position, or when editing a position. This article explains how to add criteria and set a blind review when editing a position.
Establish Custom Ratings Criteria and/or a Blind Review
Navigate to the Evaluation Settings for a position
- Navigate to Positions on the navigation menu.
- Find and click the hyperlinked Name of the desired position title to open the list of applicants for that position.
- Select Edit Position from the Position Actions dropdown at the top of the screen.
- Click Evaluation Settings on the right side.
Add custom rating criterion to rate applicants on a five-star scale
In order for evaluators to assign a 1-5 star rating for any applicant, at least one criterion must be created for that position. Without any criteria, ratings cannot be assigned.
- Once on the Evalution Settings page, click the Add Criterion button to add a custom criterion to the list.
- Click the “X” adjacent to the desired criterion to delete it.
A criteria can only be deleted from a position once every rating has been cleared by each evaluator.
Turn on/off blind review
If blind review is turned on, evaluators will only see their own ratings and comments. If blind review is turned off, evaluators will also see the average committee rating under Committee Summary and comments from other evaluators
- Once on the Evaluation Settings page, check the Blind Review box that says Evaluators should not see others' comments and ratings if it is not desired to have Evaluators see comments and ratings entered by their fellow committee members.
Please note that:
- Commenting can be enabled or disabled by the institution.
- Blind review only applies to Evaluators/Committee Members. Administrators and Committee Managers will always have access to the comments of all evaluators and committee summary rating.
- To see ratings by specific evaluators, users with the proper permissions must run an applications report.