Set up Evaluations to track student progress.

In Dental School Setup, click Evaluations.

Setting up Dental Student Evaluations for Dental Schools includes attaching a grading scale and defining the criteria that will be evaluated. To set up evaluations, the logged-on user must have the Setup security permission. The list of evaluation definitions can be filtered by dental course.

Evaluation Definitions: Evaluations matching the selected course are listed

Course: Select a course from dropdown to filter the Evaluation Definitions list.

Duplicate: Highlight an evaluation in the grid and click to create a copy. All details are copied, but the Title is appended with -copy.

Add: Click to create a new evaluation. Opens the Evaluation Definition Edit window (see below).

Evaluation Definition Edit

From Evaluation Definitions, click Add to create a new Evaluation Definition or double-click an existing Evaluation Definition to edit. The Evaluation Definition Edit window opens.

Enter general evaluation information.

• Title: The identifying name of this evaluation.
• Grading Scale: Click [...] to attach a Dental School Grading Scale.
• Course: Click [...] to attach this evaluation to a Dental School Course.

Criteria Used: Lists the any criteria currently added to the Evaluation. If using a weighted grading scale, the total points for all criteria is shown at the bottom

• Up / Down arrows: Select a criterion and click to reorder in the list.
• Add: Click to add Evaluation Criterion. Opens the Evaluation Criterion Def Edit window (see below).

Evaluation Criterion Def Edit

From Evaluation Definition Edit, click Add to create new criterion or double-click an existing criterion from the list to edit.

• Description: The identifying name of the criterion.
• Grading Scale: The scale that will be applied to this criterion. By default, the scale of the evaluation is selected. Click [...] to change. The overall grade calculation is always be based on the evaluation's grading scale.
• Points: Only shows if using a weighted grading scale. Enter the maximum number of points possible for this criterion.
• Is Category Name: Check this box to use this criterion as a header in the evaluation. No points or grades will be associated with this row; it will be for organization purposes only.

Delete: Remove this criterion from the evaluation.

Click Save add new criterion or keep changes.