Overview
Calculated scoring allows you to automatically assign scores to numeric and option list responses, reducing manual effort and ensuring consistent assessment results. This feature is particularly useful for risk assessments, compliance checks, and performance evaluations where scoring logic determines the final outcome.
This guide walks you through setting up calculated scoring for different question types, including numeric inputs and option lists.
Enabling Automatic Scoring
To enable automatic scoring for a question, follow these steps:
- Navigate to the question in the Question Library.
- Open the question's properties and toggle on Score Question.
- Add conditions to assign scores to specific answer values. These conditions determine how the question will be scored automatically when answered on records.
For multi-select option lists based questions, the output will be the score for the highest selected option.
Overriding Automatic Scores
During the question review process, automatic scores can be overridden if necessary. Learn more about overriding scores here.
Examples of Automatic Scoring
Example 1: Binary Response
Question: Will the project involve the collection of new information about individuals?
- Yes: Score 5
- No: Score 1
Example 2: Numerical Range
Question: What is the volume of processing?
- > 81: Score 5
- > 61: Score 4
- > 41: Score 3
- > 20: Score 2
- < 21: Score 1
Example 3: Multi-select Options
Question: Which of the following policies do you not have?
- Information Security: Score 5
- Disaster Recovery: Score 4
- Acceptable Use: Score 3
- Incident Response: Score 3
If the recipient of the assessment selects;
- Disaster Recovery & Incident Response: The output score will be 4 as that is the maximum of the options.
- Acceptable Use & Incident Response: The output score will be 3 as that is the maximum of the options.