Creating Assessment Sessions
An assessment session is an assessment carried out over a determined time period. When an assessment session is published, a questionnaire is sent to targeted users.
Accessing Assessment Sessions
To access an assessment session:
1. Click Campaign Management and select the assessment campaign in question.
2. In the properties page of the assessment campaign, select the Sessions page.
Creating Assessment Sessions
Creating Assessment Sessions
To create an assessment session:
1. Open the properties of the campaign and select the Sessions page.
2. In the Assessment Sessions section, click New.
You may choose to launch the assessment session later, without specifying when.
3. To do this, in the session launch window, select “not now”
This option enables you to complete the assessment session with data, for example with the session owner and the assessment dates. In the framework of an assessment campaign with template, the session template is specified by default. It cannot be modified. For more details on creation of assessment sessions without template (ad-hoc or advanced mode), see
"Creating Ad-Hoc Assessment Sessions" or
"Creating Expert Assessment Sessions".
4. Click the Save button.
5. You can create other assessment sessions in the same way.
The assessment sessions created will be used to plan the assessment campaign, that is to distribute between the different assessment sessions the objects to be assessed in their context. See
"Distributing Assessments Within Sessions".
Previewing assessment session parameters
Once the assessment session is created, you can preview the parameters inherited from the assessment campaign.
To preview the parameters:
1. Open the properties of the assessment session and select the Parameters and Preview tab.
Elements that will be assessed appear.
In particular, you can view:
• assessed characteristics (defined in the assessment template)
An assessed characteristic defines what the assessment seeks to assess. It can be associated with a MetaClass, and more specifically with one of its MetaAttributes, for example: Risk MetaClass, MetaAttribute: Likelihood
• assessed objects
• context objects
A context object is an object in the framework of which the assessment is carried out. For example, a risk can be assessed within the framework of an application or a deployed application.
• assessment nodes which correspond to objects placed in their context objects, associated with respondents.
An assessment node is associated with values calculated from answers given in questionnaires by respondents for each of the assessed characteristics. It is created at the time of deployment of the assessment session, or at aggregation. Objects created at deployment are owned by the session and enable determination of the object that will be evaluated, by whom and in which context.
Creating and launching assessment sessions
You may create an assessment session and choose to launch it:
• "now”
If you choose this option, you will be able to see the assessment session being launched. This option enables to execute the following workflow transitions at the same time:
• after saving, in batch mode (“as soon as possible”)
• later, specifying the date and hour in UTC format (“planned”)