Create and Manage Evaluations

Accelerate your opportunity review process with standardized evaluation templates and enhanced collaboration functionalities.

Overview

An evaluation is a shared document collaboratively filled out by users, usually cross-functional teams of experts. The document uses a custom template that lists all the criteria against which the participants of the evaluation should assess the opportunity.

It can either involve only a few participants and focus on scientific elements in the earlier stage of the evaluation, or gather many participants on various aspects of the deal during the due diligence.

Depending on your user profile (Manager or Contributor), you don't have the same rights over the evaluations.

Create an Evaluation

Only Managers can perform this action.

Open the opportunity in which you want to create the evaluation. Go to the Tasks tab, click Create and select Evaluation.

A popup will open asking you to name the evaluation, select a due date, and the evaluation template of your choice. Fill out the information and click Confirm.

Once created, the evaluation appears in the list of Tasks and Evaluations on your homepage, and in the Tasks tab of the related opportunity. You can then click it to open it, to invite participants, and manage it.

Add and Manage Participants

Only Managers can perform this action.

Click Manage participants at the top right of the evaluation.

A popup will open where you can add and remove participants. You have three access levels available for the participants:

• Owner: For the Manager who created the evaluation only.
  To change the evaluation owner, you must reassign the opportunity ownership to another user (who will consequently become the new owner of the evaluation).
• Can edit and comment: For other Managers invited to contribute to the evaluation.
• Can comment: For Contributors invited to contribute to the evaluation.

Once participants are added, the initial letters of their user name will appear at the top right of the evaluation page, to quickly identify who's part of the evaluation process.

Edit the Evaluation Questions

Only Managers can perform this action.

To edit the content of the questions asked in the evaluation, click the ellipsis icon at the top right of the evaluation, and select Go to edit mode.

You will be redirected to a new page where you can edit all the questions asked to participants. You can also rename or delete the evaluation from here.

You can also add new questions (Add a new block), or delete existing ones. Note that you can't delete a question that already received some answers.

Make sure to click Save changes before leaving the edit mode.

If you wish to edit the structure of the evaluation (i.e. the sections), you need to ask Inova to customize your template.

Change the Evaluation Status and Due date

Only Managers can perform this action.

You can select the evaluation status at the top of the evaluation page. It can either be set as Ongoing or Closed. 

The due date is available at the top of the evaluation page. It can be updated at any time. Once the due date has been reached, the evaluation remains open (Ongoing), but the due date is displayed in red (on your homepage and in the related opportunity).

Once the evaluation is closed, it's displayed as strikethrough on your homepage and the related opportunity. If you're Manager, you can reopen it by changing its status back to Ongoing.

Rename or Delete an Evaluation

You must be the evaluation owner to perform these actions.

Click the ellipsis icon at the top right of the evaluation, and select Rename or Delete. A popup will open asking for your confirmation.

Create an Evaluation Template

You can update the default template provided by Inova or create your own.

Please contact your CSM at Inova to perform this action.

Contribute to an Evaluation

Any Manager or Contributor invited to the evaluation can perform this action.

On the right side of the evaluation page, you can see all the comments submitted by participants. Select one of the questions on the left to display the related comments. 

You can use rich text editing options, add links and mention other users of the application to interact with them (using @). Mentioned users will be notified by email.

You can reply to a comment, but note that it's not possible to reply to another reply, only to initial comments. All the replies can be hidden in a collapsible section.

You can edit or delete only your own comments.

Follow-Up on Your Evaluations

Where to Find Them

You can see all the evaluations you're currently participating in directly on your homepage, in the Evaluations section. The closed evaluations you previously participated in can be found in the Completed section.

You can also see the evaluations related to a specific opportunity within the Tasks tab of the opportunity, whether you're part of the evaluation or not.

Be Reminded by Notifications

Participating in an evaluation triggers a set of notifications to make sure participants give their feedback on time. Some of them are automatic, some others can be triggered manually by Managers.

Automatic Notifications

Those notifications are activated by default. If you want to disable them, go to your Account page (at the bottom of the navigation bar) and click the Notifications tab. There you can select or unselect the relevant notifications.

Manual Notifications

You can choose to send additional notifications when:

• You want to remind participants to contribute (via the Manage participants window).
  
• You're closing or reopening the evaluation. Here you can even customize the message to be sent.

Detailed User Rights Regarding Evaluations

If you're a Manager, you can perform the following actions on all opportunities whether you own them or not (and whether you own the related initiative as well or not), unless otherwise specified.