Select a questionnaire from the menu on Questionnaire Manager. With the questionnaire selected:

  1. Click Properties on the Questionnaire toolbar to view the Questionnaires Properties dialog.
  2. Select the Scoring System. The default is Percent. The following options are available:
    • Points: Each answer is assigned a "weight" in points, for example 10. The questionnaire score is the sum of all selected answer points. Answers can have a negative point value, for example. -10.
    • Percent: Each question and answer group is assigned a "weight" in percent. The minimum is 1%, the maximum is 100. The final questionnaire percentage score is the weighted average of the selected answers.
    • Grades: Each answer is assigned a "weight" in grade value .minimum: 0.001 equals "best", maximum: 5 equals "worst", where each question and question group must be assigned a percentage weight, minimum: 1, maximum is 100. The final questionnaire score grade is the weighted average of the selected answers.

     3.  Select the Auto-Sort Answers By: method to display all answer listings using this questionnaire. The following options are available: 

  • Creation Time: when the questionnaire was created.
  • Weight (Ascending)
  • Weight (Descending)

     4.  Type a Weight (q) for Reports: The default is 1.00. The "q" option assigns a global weight for this questionnaire when included in a report with multiple questionnaire scores. 
          The allowed weight range is 0.00 to 1.00, double digit fractions. In all reports, the total score is calculated as a weighted average of the final scores from each questionnaire.

     5.  Click OK.

Important: Changing the scoring system for a questionnaire after question groups or questions and answers are added causes inaccuracy. Therefore check all weight values in the questionnaire for accuracy after changing the scoring system used.