It would be great if we could weight the evaluation forms/questions we create for evaluation. In our grant rounds, we need to be able to add more or less weight to different questions in order to get a more accurate picture of evaluation.

This seems like a great idea for those using more complex evaluation systems!

I was searching for information about weighting evaluation questions and just found this very helpful stream. We absolutely need to improve our evaluation process and it has become obvious weighting questions is imperative, even if we have to move outside of Foundant to complete our evaluations (which would be a huge pain). If anyone sees this and would be willing to share a rubric, I would be grateful to hear from you!

This would make my life so much easier. We currently have an entirely excel based tool that we use and manually input the scores (both raw and weighted) for each criteria for each grant assessed so that we can report on them in the future.

Agreed! Foundant needs to add the ability to weigh some scoring questions. Right now any scoring questions is valued at 1x the score. But many evaluation systems rely on some questions carrying more weight, so that a score might be 1.5x or 2x or more. This should be a simple fix and would benefit not only those who can't use the existing system like Anonymous above, but would also allow other users to expand existing scoring rubrics.

There's a similar suggestion here: http://idealab.foundant.com/forums/339786-foundant-glm-idea-lab/suggestions/12854316-custom-scoring-scales

Copying my comment from that page: The scoring definitely needs some custom options added. We have a grant where all sections are graded 1-5, but there is a multiplier that varies per section - so a 5 may count as 10 points in one section and 15 in another. Since the system calculates the overall score as a percentage without any knowledge of our multipliers, the system currently is very confusing for panelists to use. Custom scoring would be great!!!

There's a similar suggestion here: http://idealab.foundant.com/forums/339786-foundant-glm-idea-lab/suggestions/17433211-allow-for-weighting-of-different-evaluation-questi?tracking_code=a29f6c1b139a6812935015a25dc68ca0

The scoring definitely needs some custom options added. We have a grant where all sections are graded 1-5, but there is a multiplier that varies per section - so a 5 may count as 10 points in one section and 15 in another. Since the system calculates the overall score as a percentage without any knowledge of our multipliers, the system currently is very confusing for panelists to use. Custom scoring would be great!!!

Custom scoring would be helpful to us too.

Additionally it would be good to make scoring questions optional. We have an application with 1-4 strategies. I would to be able to make scoring questions for strategies 2-4 optional as they may not apply. If I just add n/a to the scoring options someone may score the 2nd strategy as N/A even though I want an app has two strategies. Does this make sense? I dream of the ability to add skip logic to forms!

I also struggle with the weighted questions inability on Foundant. We have to use our own equations instead of paying attention to the scores Foundant already calculates. I wish there would be a way to just make the numbers worth more? Example: 1-10 for a non-weighted questions and 20-29 for a weighted one? Just an idea... I would love to see this updated!

Some criteria for both our grant and scholarship programs carries more weight than other criteria in making the final decision. Our committee members would like the evaluation scoring to automatically take this into account. For example, scholarship criteria may be based on 50% financial need, 25% academic achievement and 25% leadership. Evaluation responses for the question pertaining to financial need should be weighted appropriately and reflect in the average score for the application.

We use a 5-item scale on our proposal reviews to ask reviewers to rate how likely they would be to recommend a proposal for funding. Each response has a certain number of points, but the scale is weighted towards the very likely/definitely end. No=0 points, doubtful=5 points, probably=10 points, very likely=20 points, and definitely=30 points.

Is it possible to create a custom scaled question, so that we'd have the 5 choices with our point values, rather than the whole scale from 0-30?