QSG: Responding to Assessments

 

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First Time Recipients

Registered Users

Partner Data Screen

Viewing Your Active Assessments

 

Navigating to the Assessment

Assessment Filters

Adding Your Answers

Updating Pre-Populated Answers

Adding Comments to an Answer

Answering Follow-up Questions

Answering Mandatory Questions

Assessment Filters

Attaching Files

Assignments

Question History

Changing the Collaborators

Tracking Your Progress

 

 

Review & Submit

Incomplete Submissions

Responding Offline

 

Responding to Clarifications

 External Communication

 

Issue Management


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First Time Recipients

When your partner invites you to complete an Assessment on CENTRL, you will receive an email notification with a registration link. Open the email notification and click the Get Started button to complete the registration form. Once registered, you will be redirected to the Assessment.

Email Invitation   Registration Form 
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Registered Users

Registered Users can log in at: web.oncentrl.com/#/login
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To learn more about CENTRL's account lockout policy, visit Account Lockout Policy.

If you would like guidance on resetting your password, please visit Password Policy & Password Reset.


Partner Data Screen

Registered Users will land on the Partners Data Screen after logging in to CENTRL. If you have received Assessments from multiple Partners, they will be listed here for easy management. Click on a Partner to view their Partner Space.
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Viewing Your Active Assessments

From the Assessments Screen and My Assignments tab, you can find questions, sections, or assessments assigned to you by a colleague.

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From the Active Assessments tab, you can find Assessments received directly from your partner. Assessments are sorted by the date received by default, with the most recent assessments at the top. 

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Note: When accessing assessments from notification emails, the system automatically redirects you to the appropriate assessment, section, or question.

 

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Navigating to the Assessment

Assessment sections appear on the left of the screen. Use the scroll bar to scroll through the sections, and click on a section to open all the questions. Then, click on an individual question to open it.
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Assessment Filters

The Filters option allows you to filter an Assessment by multiple dimensions, such as section, question status, assignee, and more.
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To learn more about the Filters option, visit Applying Filters.

Adding Your Answers

The Answering Pane is in the center of the screen. Here, you will find the question prompt and answer options. All answers are saved automatically.
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 For a complete overview of CENTRL's answer types, you can visit Answer Types and Question Types.

 

Updating Pre-Populated Answers

For your convenience, some answers may be pre-populated from a previous iteration of the assessment. To learn more about updating a pre-populated answer or reverting to a pre-populated answer, visit Modifying a Pre-Populated Answer.
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Adding Comments to an Answer

While answering a particular question, you have the option to add a comment alongside your answer by clicking the Add Comment link as shown below.
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For more information on how to add or edit comments at the question level, visit
Adding and Editing a Comment to an Answer.

 

Answering Follow-up Questions

Some questions may trigger follow-up questions based on your initial answer. To learn more about answering follow-up questions, visit Answering Follow-up Questions.
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Answering Mandatory Questions

Your publishing partner has the option to designate mandatory questions. One or more unanswered mandatory questions will prevent you from submitting an assessment. To learn more about mandatory questions, visit Answering a Mandatory Question.
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Attaching Files

When answering a question, you can attach files to your response. You can do this using the Attach File option on the answering pane or from the Documents modal on the upper right of the screen. Your publishing Partner can request that you provide files to support your response.
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For more information on attaching files on the answering pane or the documents modal, visit Uploading Documents to Assessments.


Assignments 

Assignments can be made at the individual question level or in bulk to facilitate collaboration. Individual questions can be assigned to others by clicking the Person icon on the upper-right of the Answering pane. Use the Select/Add User dropdown field to choose an assignee from the list, or manually enter the assignee's email address and add them on-the-fly. Messages added in the message box are sent to the assignee as part of the assignment email notification.  
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To make bulk assignments, click on Bulk Assignments to the right of the Assessment sections and choose what to assign.  

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Assignments can be given at the question, section, or assessment level as shown below.

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To learn more about this feature, visit Assigning Questions and Sections.


Question History

Question History shows information regarding the selected question. This feature gives users a complete trail of user activities at the question level.
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To learn more about question history, please visit: Question History.

 

Changing the Collaborators 

When Questionnaire Owners, Administrators, and Recipients (Guest users and Subscribed users) receive an assessment for Answering, they can change the assessment's owner and collaborators.

1. From the Assessment Answering Screen, select the Collaboration button as shown below.

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2. From the Change Collaborator(s) Window, click on Additional Collaborator(s), and select a collaborator from the list, or enter their email address to add them on-the-fly.

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To learn more about changing collaborators please visit the following article,
Change the Collaborators.


Tracking Your Progress 

The progress bar at the bottom of the screen shows the total number of questions answered and the questions remaining. Your answers are saved automatically and are in Draft status until submitted.
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After you have completed a pre-submission review, click the Submit button at the bottom of the screen. 

 

 

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Review & Submit

Click on the Review tab to view the Assessment's questions and your responses in detail. Once you are satisfied with your responses, click on Submit
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You can download a copy of the assessment and related files for your records. To learn more about this feature, please visit Viewing and Downloading all Files attached to an Assessment.


Incomplete Submissions

Be advised that a warning message will appear if you attempt to submit an incomplete assessment. Assignees must complete all assigned questions before they submit the assessment.
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Responding to Clarifications

On the Answering Screen, the Clarifications quick filter shows the total number of clarification questions associated with the assessment. Click on the filter to open the clarification questions.
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As part of evaluating an assessment, your partner may send clarifications when they have additional questions based on the answers you submitted. To learn more about assessment clarifications, please visit Responding to Clarifications.

 

External Communication

The external communication functionality enables you to communicate with your external partner within the context of an Assessment. You can use the external communication for Assessments option to ask questions.

1. From the Assessments Answering Screen, click on the Overview button at the top right of the screen as shown below.

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2. Select the External tab, enter your message in the text box, and click Send Message to submit your message to your partner.

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To learn more about our external communication feature, please visit
External Communication for Assessments.

 

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Issues Management

Issue remediation generally involves four steps: using the external Q/A, collaborating on the issue with colleagues, adding management updates, and publishing management updates. To learn more about the issue remediation process, please visit Responding to Issues. 

 

Responding/Answering Offline

Exporting an Assessment

CENTRL offers the option to export an assessment as an Excel or PDF file for offline answering.

1. Click on the 3 dots icon next to the Assessment you would like to export, and from the dropdown menu, select Export as shown below.

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2. On the following screen, you can export an individual question, a section, or the entire Assessment and export the file as a PDF or XLSX file as shown below.
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Note: PDFs may default to opening by the browser's PDF Viewer; however, some answer types and features are unavailable in this view. We recommend opening and answering assessments offline using Adobe Acrobat Reader, which will have the most answering capabilities available. 

For a comprehensive guide on exporting an assessment, please click the following link,
Export an Assessment.


Importing an Assessment

Once you have finished answering the Assessment offline, you can use the Import option to upload your responses. 
1. Click the 3 dots icon next to the Assessment where you will be importing your responses, and select Import.  
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2. Click + File to select your file for import. Once you have added your file, click Next.
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3. From the Review & Import Screen, click Import

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Note: If the source questionnaires are the same, the same PDF template can be used for multiple assessments. Please note that uploading to multiple assessments is not available in XLSX format. 
For a comprehensive guide on exporting an assessment, please click the following link,
Import Offline Answers in an Assessment.