Assessment & Evaluation

New in ME 1.26!

• A new item type for narrative feedback that you want to keep the target from seeing. The Confidential Item can be included on forms with other items that are visible to learners.

• The option for administrative users to disable initial task creation email notifications on distributions.

• A database setting that forces A&E task expiry to 23:59 (configured per distribution type) (assessment_tasks_expiry_end_of_day)

• Three database settings that allow a developer to configure how tasks sort on user's A&E tabs, e.g., by event date, then delivery date, then expiration date instead of just by delivery date (assessment_sort_assessor_pending, assessment_sort_assessor_completed, assessment_sort_target_completed)

There are multiple tools available to facilitate assessment and evaluation through Elentra. See here for an overview of the multiple tools available and determine which is most appropriate for your needs. The Assessment & Evaluation module can be used to:

• Create items and forms to assess learner performance on tasks (e.g., clinical skills and workplace based assessments)

• Create items and forms to have learners evaluate courses, faculty, themselves, and other activities

• Create items and forms to assess learner performance on gradebook assessments

  • Note that to allow inline faculty grading using a rubric form or similar, you build a form in Assessment & Evaluation, then attach it to a Gradebook Assessment

Assessment & Evaluation Module Overview

The Assessment & Evaluation Module in Elentra is predominantly used to assess learner performance in a clinical environment, and provide multiple user groups with the ability to evaluate faculty, courses/programs, and other activities within the context of your organization. Since the Assessment & Evaluation Module essentially allows you to create forms for people to complete you could even use it to do a pre-course survey, or as a way to collect information from a group about their work plans in a collaborative activity.

To use the Assessment & Evaluation Module users must create items (e.g., questions, prompts, etc.), and create forms (a collection of items). Organizations can optionally allow users to initiate specific forms based on a form workflow (e.g. to allow learners to initiate an assessment on themselves by a faculty member), or organizations can create tasks for individuals to complete using a distribution. A distribution defines who will complete a form, when the form will be completed, and who or what the form is about.

Assessment and Evaluation module users also have a quick way to view their assigned tasks and administrators can monitor the completion of tasks assigned to others.

Reporting exists to view and in some cases export the results of various assessments and evaluations.

The Competency-Based Education module also includes a variety of form templates for use. There is no user interface to configure form templates at this point. For instructions specific to Competency-Based Education, please see the CBE tab.

Database Setting Options

Database Setting	Use
disable_distribution_assessor_notifications	This goes hand in hand with unauthenticated_internal_assessments and enable_distribution_assessor_summary_notifications. When using unauthenticated distribution assessments, you probably want a single summary email with a link to each task rather than an email for each new task. This disables the per-task reminders.
enable_distribution_assessor_summary_notifications	This adjusts the emails for distribution assessments to have a nightly summary of all new tasks, and then a weekly summary of tasks that are still incomplete.
enable_prompted_responses_comments_and_reviews	Controls the visibility of a Prompted Responses tab for staff and faculty users who receive prompted response notifications.
flagging_notifications
include_name_in_flagged_notifications	defines whether or not to include names of users in prompted response notifications in Assessment and Evaluation items
unauthenticated_internal_assessments	Impacts email notifications sent to assessors. If enabled, allows distributed assessments to be completed by internal assessors without logging in via a unique hash provided via email
assessment_tasks_show_all_multiphase_assessments
assessment_delegation_auto_submit_single_target	On by default, controls whether or not a page will auto submit when there is a single target in a delegation task
assessment_display_tasks_from_removed_assessors	when enabled, will display assessment tasks from assessors that have been removed from the distribution
cbme_ondemand_start_assessment
cbme_ondemand_start_assessment_shortcut_button	optional, if selected a short cut icon will be displayed to learner in their cbme dashboard beside corresponding EPAs
cbme_ondemand_start_assessment_add_assessor	optional, if selected you will have the ability to add new assessors. By default these added assessor will be stored in the cbl_external_assessors table. If you want the added assessor to be an internal user you must also merge ME-1434 to get this complete feature
cbme_ondemand_start_assessment_director_as_staff_workflow	toggle whether faculty directors get the staff workflow view. Default is off (0) - all faculty get the faculty workflow view
cbme_ondemand_start_assessment_replace_admin_trigger	to toggle whether the “Trigger Assessment” button on /admin/assessments gets switched over to use the workflow view. Default is off (0).
cbme_ondemand_expiry	Enable to apply an expiry date for tasks generated from on demand workflows.
cbme_ondemand_expiry_offset	If cbme_ondemand_expiry is in use, define the period of time after which an on demand task will expire.
cbme_ondemand_expiry_workflow_shortnames	If cbme_ondemand_expiry is in use, define which workflow types it applies to.
cbme_assessment_form_embargo	For organizations with CBME enabled, the option allows you to hide rubric forms until certain conditions are met.
assessment_triggered_by_target	For adhoc distributions only, controls whether or not a target can initiate a form. Enabled by default.
assessment_triggered_by_assessor	For adhoc distributions only, controls whether or not a target can initiate a form. Enabled by default.
assessment_method_complete_and_confirm_by_pin	For adhoc distributions only, controls the available form completion method. Enabled by default.
assessment_method_send_blank_form	For adhoc distributions only, controls whether or not a target can initiate a form. Enabled by default.
housing_distributions_enabled
clerkship_housing_department_id
evaluation_data_visible	Can be used to restrict users from opening individual, completed evaluation tasks
show_evaluator_data	Can be used to hide names of evaluators from distribution progress reports, the Admin > A&E Dashboard, and reports
disable_target_viewable_release_override	Can be added to the course_settings table or the settings table to turn off the ability for evaluators to optionally release complete evaluations to a target (restricting release option can also be controlled throught distributions if this setting is not applied)
assessment_tasks_expiry_end_of_day	Use this to store a list distribution types were you want the task expirty to be 23:59 on the day selected (inputs: ‘date_range,rotation_schedule,delegation,eventtype,adhoc,reciprocal’) (ME 1.26)
assessment_sort_assessor_pending	Optionally configure how tasks display on a user's My Assessment Tasks tab. Available inputs: a JSON encoded array of arrays, e.g., [{"sort_order":"desc","sort_column":"`event_start`"},{"sort_order":"desc","sort_column":"`task_title`"},{"sort_order":"desc","sort_column":"`task_expiry_date`"}]' (ME 1.26)
assessment_sort_assessor_completed	Optionally configure how tasks display on a user's My Completed Tasks tab (see above for input details) (ME 1.26)
assessment_sort_target_completed	Optionally configure how tasks display on a user's Tasks Completed on Me tab (see above for input details) (ME 1.26)