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Linking of test-taker code errors on our backend coding environment

We are excited to share that in addition to highlighting the lines having errors and warnings directly in the CodeLysis code editor, we now also provide linking of errors from the console itself. The errors/warnings are linked to their exact location in the code and clicking on the link takes the user directly to that line.

This functionality will further enhance the coding and debugging experience of test-takers and will provide them with a more feels-like-home IDE experience.

Error Linking

The New Test-taker Experience now available in 12 Language!

We are excited to share that the New Test-taker Experience is now supported on Top 12 languages used on the platform (apart from English):

These languages are:

  1. Arabic
  2. Bahasa
  3. European Portuguese
  4. European Spanish
  5. French
  6. German
  7. Hungarian
  8. Italian
  9. Mandarin
  10. Portuguese
  11. Spanish
  12. Turkish

All assessments created in any of these these languages will now be available on the Test Taker Interface.

For the remaining languages, we will keep you all posted once it is made Live.

Stay tuned for more updates!

Next-gen of our project-based development environment

Continuing our efforts towards enhancing test-taker’s experience, we have launched the next-generation of our project-based development environment (I/O).

This comes with a new and modern UI with improved user-experience.

I/O walkthrough

It also provides a UI walkthrough highlighting the key components of the environment. This will help test-takers who are new and unfamiliar to modern IDEs based programming environments.

Hope you are as excited as we are to let the test-takers get a feel of the all new project-based coding environment!

Error highlighting in backend coding environment

In our efforts to make the user experience for test-takers even better we have made big updates to our general-purpose backend coding environment (Codelysis).

The code editor now highlights specific lines which have errors and warnings in them. It also provides the exact character location and description of the errors/warnings.

codelysis error hilighting

This functionality is meant to enhance the coding and debugging experience of test-takers who find it difficult to understand logs and will assist them in understating the issue(s) with their code.

Grammar and spell check plugin detection

Grammar and spell check plugin intervenes with test takers’ data. Since we highly discourage use of such plugins in a test, we have introduced detection feature for these plugins. We detect it when Long Answer questions are used in a test.

Plugin detection in system compatibility: 

In system compatibility user gets notified, if Grammar and spell check plugins are installed in the browser.

 

Plugin detection during test:

During the test  we detect the Grammar and spell check plugin is installed and enabled  in the browser, if user disabled or remove the plugin, warning should not be visible on the screen.

 

 

Stay tuned for more amazing updates coming your way!

Section time over Notification

We value our test-takers’ feedback and keep on enhancing the experience taking their feedback into consideration. The test time over notification was too last minute for test takers to finish their test. With section time over notification, test-takers get a notification as soon as a timed section is about to get over.

Section Time Over Notifications are shown just 5 mins and 1 min before the section’s time gets over.

Section Time Over Notification when 5 mins left in a section:

Section Time Over Notification when 1 min left in a section

 

Stay tuned for more amazing updates coming your way!

Average Ratings can now Exclude Self-Feedback also!

Now you can exclude Self Ratings from all average ratings calculated in the report! 

Once this setting is applied, all the average competency ratings would be shown on the basis of ‘Others’ Ratings only i.e. Self scores would be removed from all the below sections. All report sections that will get impacted once this setting is enabled for a survey are given below:   

  1. Competency Summary  
  2. Detailed Feedback  
  3. Top Strengths & Top Areas of Improvement (new report section introduced below) 
  4. Personal Development Plan  
  5. Benchmark 

The section for Johari Window will still appear with all statements being shown with Self score included as Self Rating is mandatory to create the 4 Quadrants i.e. Strengths, Areas of Improvement, Hidden Strengths and Blind Spots.  

Below is the setting in Report Setup from where this setting can be accessed. By default, this is switched OFF. 

Stay tuned for more amazing updates coming your way.

New Report section for Top Strengths & Top Areas of Improvement!

Now you can get Top Strengths & Top Areas of Improvement also as a method of survey ratings interpretation! 

Apart from Johari window, this feature can also be used for classifying report statements. For any survey, all the statements (questions) asked in the survey are arranged in ascending order of the average score received for the statements from all survey participants.  

Below is where this section appears in the Report Configuration under Report Setup tab. Clicking on this takes the survey admin to the setting.  

 

As highlighted in blue below, all statements above a specific threshold (set at 50% by default) are classified as Top Strengths and all statements below the threshold are classified as Top Areas of Improvement. However, if you need to mandatorily show some statements as Top Strengths & Top Areas of Improvement then you can choose to switch the toggle off in that case.  

The maximum count of statements to be shown in each section can be defined by the setting highlighted in brown. This is set to 5 by default and can go up to 10 statements.  

Below this is the area where custom heading and description can be set for this new section of the report. 

Stay tuned for more amazing updates coming your way.

Launching Real-time & Automated Group Report Dashboard

The Real-time automated Group Reports dashboard is now Live on the 360View platform.

A new tab for ‘Analytics’ has now been introduced on 360View.

For every survey, after the survey admin provides more data for each Feedback Seeker (also known as dimensions), we show various analysis basis this dimensional data shared. Dimensions such as Location, Experience Range, Department, Business Unit, Band Level etc. can be added for Group Analytics Dashboard.

On the basis of the dimensional data added for each Feedback Seeker, filters are provided (as highlighted in green in the screenshot below) that can be used for slicing and dicing of data. This helps in seeing the Group Reports data on various cuts for better understanding of the survey output.

We will be rolling out the complete support for Group Reports in multiple phases. As part of Phase 1, the below Dashboard has been added.

 

Let’s breakdown each section of the Dashboard for a better understanding. The below highlighted ‘Filter’ options appear automatically on the basis of the uploaded data for Seeker’s Dimensions. All the data shown on this Dashboard can be sliced and diced using these filter options.

 

Average Competency Ratings:

This graph gives a summary of average ratings received for each competency in the survey. The are in ascending order of the Ratings received for the survey. Highest rated competencies appear on the left and the lowest rated ones appear towards the right.

 

Self vs Others – Group Mean Score Comparison:

The below Spider Chart represents how the ratings appear in comparison between Self and all Other relationships that were a part of the survey.

 

Quadrant Rating Analysis:

On the basis of the Spiderchart shown above, a comparison between the ratings received by Self vs Others is plotted on a graph. This highlights which competency can be classified as Strengths, Areas of Improvement, Hidden Strengths and Blind Spots for the entire list of Feedback Seekers in the survey.

 

Feedback Word Cloud:

Basis the response received in the Open-ended Feedback questions, we create a word cloud to highlight which words were used the most for sharing feedback for the Feedback Seeker. The Top Positive words and Top Negative words are also shown to understand the underlying sentiment shared in the Open-ended Feedback questions.

 

Role Wise Group Mean Score:

These bar graphs below give a detailed analysis of the average ratings received for each competency in the survey. This is classified by each relationship that was a part of this survey. This further helps in identifying relationship based patterns in the ratings received.

 

To add this additional data for Seeker’s dimensions, go to this new tab for ‘Analytics’ on the survey running page.

W.r.t. the markings 1 and 2 shown in the image above:

1 – Download the excel template for sharing the dimensions data using this option.

2 – Upload the excel template from here where the dimensions data has been filled in. Any error in the file would be highlighted in the respective cell with an error message. This helps you to quickly correct/standardize your data and upload it to be able to see the Dashboard.

 

What’s next: We will be rolling out Group reports in phases when we are able to plan this in a release.

Phase 2: Feedback Seekers would be required to share their own dimensions’ data basis which Group Analytics could be shown.

Phase 3: PDF Group Reports would be made available for each survey.

Phase 4: Customization options for PDF Group Reports would be provided.

 

Stay tuned for more amazing updates coming your way.

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