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).

Reorder criteria using the ..

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 OK to save changes.