After you create a category, create metrics you can use to evaluate the assessable records for that category.

Before you begin

Role required: assessment_admin or admin

About this task

When you create metrics, consider the focus of the category and what characteristics you want to measure for the items you will assess.

Procedure

  1. Navigate in one of the following ways.
    OptionDescription
    Assessments > Metric Definition > Categories

    Open a category, and locate the Assessment Metrics related list.

    This is the suggested navigation path, as the system links metrics to the category from which they are created.
    Assessments > Metric Definition > Metrics  
  2. Click New.
  3. On the Assessment Metric form, fill in the fields.
    For a description of the field values, see Assessment Metric form for a category.
  4. Save the record.
    When you create a Choice or Likert Scale question, reopen the Assessment Metric form after you submit it to create a metric definition. If you distribute a questionnaire without creating the answers for questions with these data types, recipients are unable to answer the quesitons. If the questions are mandatory, the recipients are unable to submit their questionnaires.