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The process of using the Evaluation Tool involves the following general steps:

1. Create your items (this is optional as you can also create items while creating a template)
2. Create a template
3. Add items to your template
4. Create an evaluation
   1. Set the parameters for the evaluation
5. Run the evaluation
6. View the results

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Creating items

Creating templates

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1. Set the Start Date (Users may begin submitting evaluation responses on this date.)
2. Set the Due Date (Evaluation ends on this date, no more responses after this date.)
3. Set Stop Date (Users may still submit responses up until this date - defines a grace period).
4. Set the View Date (Results are not viewable until this date.)

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1. Indicate if you want results to be Private

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1. Select the type of Authentication control setting to use for this evaluation
2. Set the Instructor opt in setting

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1. Enter a Category name.  This is used to group related evaluations and for the category view.

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1. A default notification email is sent to out to all students assigned to an evaluation the morning of the day the evaluation goes live.  Click the View/Edit the notification email? link to edit this notification email.
2. Select the Email reminder to non-respondent students interval.
3. A default reminder email is sent out to all students who have not yet completed the evaluation at the interval specified above.  Click the View/Edit the reminder email? link to edit this reminder email.
4. Fill in the Email From/Reply-to Address: if different from the system setting.

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Add items to your template

Creating evaluations

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1. explain basic usage (create template, start eval, take evals, view results), details about setting up the permissions correctly in Sakai would be helpful, explanation of the summary (dahsboard) view
2. how to create a template with details about various things like inserting expert items, reusing existing items, block items, etc.
3. how to start evaluations with details about the start dates and the various options
4. explanation of the email reminders and how they work
5. ways to access an evaluation to take it (email links, summary page, category view, direct links)
6. Viewing reports options with details on how to download csvs and view text responses