QA - Scores and Thresholds

In QA for every assessment there are two distinct scoring and outcome results for each assessment.

Scoring allows a score to be calculated.

Threshold is a simple Pass or Fail result.

When setting up a QA assessment, you may want to provide ranges for assessment purposes and graphical displaying of trends. The field "Pass mark" usually contains a number. e.g. 80 for 80% to Pass. Anything less than 80% is a Fail.

The "Pass mark" is found from Main Menu > Form Management > Form - Edit > Choose your QA Form > Choose Quality Options from the console on the left > In the "Create Options" section on the right, the "Pass mark" field can be found.

You can extend the formatting of the score as follows: 80;70-red;80-orange;90-yellow;100-green;

This sets the Pass | Fail score firstly. It then allows "less than" ranges. So if less than 70 colour the section is red. If less than 80, colour the section orange and so on. There is more information on colours below.

This process of splitting the Score and the Threshold, also allows for the introduction of an instant fail without the need to introduce negative marking. Say for example there is a really important question in your QA script e.g. Data Protection laws were adhered to. A special code "Fail" without the double inverted comma can be put into the weighting box. This will result in a score of 0 being issued to the question, but overall, no matter what score the user gets, the assessment will show a Threshold of Fail. This allows averages to be maintained without the need for negative scoring and still represent an assessment as a fail.

Colours

The colours available are red, green, blue, cyan, maygenta, yellow, orange, grey, white, black.

Alternately you can use hex codes, if you include the # symbol. 3 or 6 character formats are accepted.

If the format does not match, then the default background colours will be used instead.