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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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• Site/Group Listing: displays the groups that you can be evaluated in and the groups you can evaluate
• Evaluations I am creating or administering: displays the title, status and date of your evaluations 
  • Clicking on the Title of the evaluation will bring up a preview of the evaluation. 
  • The Status column will indicate whether an evaluation is active or if results are viewable.  You can click on the View Report link to gain direct access to the report for that particular evaluation. 
  • The Date column will indicate the due date of the evaluation or the date of when results became viewable.

Creating items

1. Click My Items.  You'll see both the items you've created and the expert items that come with the tool or have been added by others.
2. Select the type of item you'd like to add (Scaled/Survey, Short Answer/Essay, Text Header) and click the Add item button.
3. For Scaled/Survey items
   1. Enter the Item Text (this is the question or statement that the evaluator will respond to)
   2. Select the Scale
   3. Select the Sharing level (private or public)
   4. Indicate if this is an Expert item
      1. If this is an expert item, enter the Expert Description (describes the appropriate usage of this item for template authors)
   5. Set Display Settings Hints (these optional settings allow the item author to provide hints as to how this item should be displayed)
      1. Select the Scale Display Setting
      2. Indicate if N/A will be an option
      3. Select Item Category
   6. Click the Save item button
4. For Short Answer/Essay items
   1. Enter the Item Text (this is the question or statement that the evaluator will respond to)
   2. Select the Sharing level (private or public)
   3. Indicate if this is an Expert item
      1. If this is an expert item, enter the Expert Description (describes the appropriate usage of this item for template authors)
   4. Set Display Settings Hints (these optional settings allow the item author to provide hints as to how this item should be displayed)
      1. Select the Response size
      2. Indicate if N/A will be an option
      3. Select Item Category
   5. Click the Save item button
5. For Text Header items
   1. Enter the Item Text (this is the question or statement that the evaluator will respond to)
   2. Select the Sharing level (private or public)
   3. Indicate if this is an Expert item
      1. If this is an expert item, enter the Expert Description (describes the appropriate usage of this item for template authors)
   4. Set Display Settings Hints (these optional settings allow the item author to provide hints as to how this item should be displayed)
      1. Indicate if N/A will be an option
      2. Select Item Category
   5. Click the Save item button

Creating templates

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1. Select the items you wish to include in the template
2. Click the Insert Items button

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1. Click on the Category name you want to select from
2. If available, choose the Objective you want to select from
3. Select the items you wish to include in the template
4. Click the Insert Items button

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1. Click and drag:  Click on an item and drag it to the new location
2. Drop-down box:  From the drop-down box, choose the new order for the item

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Creating templates

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