Marksheet ApplyIf

The ApplyIf function can be used in conjunction blueprinting categories to control where global criteria appear within the site.

As discussed in this article, global criteria help users to achieve efficiencies by creating site level scoring criteria for deployment throughout the site. The ApplyIf function is used to stipulate which items receive which criteria, quite literally, applying if particular conditions are met.

Setting up an ApplyIf condition

To add an ApplyIf condition:

• Step 1 of 2

  First build your global criterion following the process described in this article.

  Click Options>ApplyIf.

  

• Step 2 of 2

  On the next page you will see all the blueprint dimensions that currently exist in the site. In this example, we will choose to apply the criterion to items tagged to Year 4.

  

  Click Save.

To see the result, navigate to any OSCE item in the site. Tag the item to Year 4 in the Year Group dimension.

• If the item is not tagged to Year 4...

  

  No criterion is present on the item's  mark sheet.

  

• If the item is tagged to Year 4...

  

  The criterion is now automatically applied to the item's mark sheet.

  

Example usage

There are many possible uses for this feature, however some common ones include:

• Applying consistent scoring domains: If you have a consistent set of scoring domains for your OSCEs you can automatically construct mark sheets based on the item tagging values. The first step is to build a corresponding blueprint dimension that contains the same values as your scoring criteria (your dimension would have values that match your scoring criteria, e.g. "History taking", "Communications skills", "Examinations skills" etc.). By setting the ApplyIf condition on each global criterion to match the blueprint category you can tag your item to the appropriate values and have the system apply the corresponding scoring criteria automatically to your mark sheet.
• Different mark sheets for different groups: An example here could be different year groups. Perhaps you have different wording for the overall judgement for the different year groups, or there is a distinction between the early and the clinical years of the programme. You could set up two separate versions of the global criterion with different ApplyIf conditions. As items are tagged to particular year groups the correct version of the criterion will be applied to the correct items.
• Site multi-tenanting: Perhaps a single risr/ assess site is shared between different programmes. Once set of global criteria should apply to the items that belong to one programme and another to set to the other programme. By spending time setting up ApplyIf conditions aligned with an appropriate blueprint dimension you can segregate the site and automatically construct mark sheets where items are tagged as belonging to the respective programmes.

If the global criterion is set to ApplyIf values in two separate dimensions are selected, the site will use OR logic to execute this. So you could have global criteria that only ApplyIf the item is tagged to a specific programme OR a specific year group.