Configure scoring for an assessment

Set up scoring for your assessment responses to calculate meaningful scores at the assessment, section, or subsection level.

Before you begin

• Confirm that the smart assessment scoring plugin [com.sn_smart_scoring] is installed.
• Role required: sn_smart_asmt.template_manager or sn_smart_asmt.assessment_admin

About this task

• Scoring can be configured at the assessment, section, subsection, and question levels. Configuring scoring at each level is optional, enable it at one or more levels based on your needs. Scoring levels are dependent on each other. For example, assessment scoring depends on section scores, which depend on subsection and question scores.
• Scoring can only be configured on a draft template. Once the template is published, you can no longer configure scoring for it.
• If questions are skipped and not answered, they’re excluded from the score calculation.

Procedure

1. Navigate to Workspaces > Assessment Workspace to access the assessment workspace landing page.
2. Create an assessment or open an existing assessment template, which is in a draft state to configure scoring.
3. Select the Scoring tab.
4. Under Scoring settings, select the Enable scoring for this template option.
   • The Enable scoring for this template option enables you to apply scoring at the assessment, section, subsection, and question levels.
   • Once scoring is enabled, you can enable normalization and configure its default settings. For more information, refer to Configure normalization in assessment
5. Optional: To activate scoring at assessment level, select the Assessment score option.
   1. On the Assessment scoring form, fill in the fields.
      For a description of the field values, see Assessment scoring form.
   2. Select Save.
6. To configure scoring at the question level, select the Questions tab.
   1. Turn on the toggle for the question for which you want to configure scoring.
   2. On the Question scoring form, fill in the fields.
      For a description of the field values, see Question scoring form.

      Note:

      Scoring logic varies by question type.

      • For multi-select, you can assign scores to options, apply functions, and set question weights.
      • For radio options, you can assign scores to choices and set question weights.
      • For number-type questions, the assessor's numeric response is directly used as the score.
   3. Select Save.
7. Optional: To configure scoring at the Subsection level, turn on the toggle switch on the subsection for which you want to configure scoring.
   1. On the Subsection scoring form, fill in the fields.
      For a description of the field values, see Assessment scoring form

      Note:

      The subsection scores are calculated by grouping question scores based on the defined criteria.
   2. Select Save.
8. Optional: To configure scoring at the Section level, turn on the toggle switch on the section for which you want to configure scoring.
   
   1. On the Section scoring form, fill in the fields.
      For a description of the field values, see Section scoring form
   2. Select Save.

Result

The scoring is now configured at all required levels.

What to do next

After scoring is configured and assessments are completed, you can view the calculated scores. For information about the tables that store question, subsection, section and assessment level scores, see Scoring results.