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📋 Evaluation forms in the MLS

Self, external and instructor assessment made easy

Carsten Rhinow avatar
Written by Carsten Rhinow
Updated over 4 months ago

In MLS, you can create digital assessment forms for your trainees. These support structured feedback on learning tasks - especially according to the complete action model - through self-assessment, external assessment and assessment by you as the learning guide.

🔍 Why evaluation forms?

Evaluation forms help your trainees to consciously reflect on their tasks - both from their own perspective and through feedback from others. You also receive a sound basis for assessing their performance professionally and discussing it together.

This creates transparency, strengthens personal responsibility and promotes learning.


🧭 How it works - step by step

1. create an evaluation sheet

Create a suitable score sheet in the MLS. You can do this either directly in a learning task or via the menu item of the same name.

Create directly in a learning task

You can create this directly in the sections via "+Add content" and then "Assessment sheet".

Create via the menu item ‘Rating sheet’

Alternatively, you can create the score sheet via the menu on the left.

No matter which way you choose to create a new plant, you must specify it:

  • Title of the evaluation form

  • Time frame

  • Profession

Save the sheet and then come to step 2.

Here you can select categories according to the complete action model and freely create your evaluation points within these categories. The standard rating scale always ranges from 0 to 10 points.

You can simply delete a category or an evaluation point by clicking on the X.

2. Self-assessment by the trainee

After your trainee has completed the task, he or she fills out the sheet themselves. This encourages self-reflection and makes learning progress visible.

3. external assessment (optional)

If you wish, another trainee can also evaluate the task - from their own perspective. This strengthens your understanding of quality criteria and how to deal with feedback.

4 Your evaluation as a trainer

You evaluate the task at the end. In doing so, you can address the self-assessment and external assessment, name differences or emphasise particular strengths.

5. conduct a feedback discussion

Use the assessment as the basis for a discussion with your trainees. This creates a meaningful exchange about the learning process - not just about the result.

🎚️ Create your own categories

The categories in the evaluation forms are based on the complete action model. You can also create your own categories. Click on the plus sign next to the categories. You can create your own categories in the window. These are then also visible to other trainers.

You can then use the drop-down menu to select these categories.

⚙️ Own evaluation criteria

Instead of the standard rating scale from 0 to 10, your organisation can also define its own criteria (e.g. if you work with school grades). These can then only be defined across the board at organisation level.

Note: MLS cannot automatically analyse the evaluation forms if you use your own evaluation scales.

❓ Why is there a “Total” and also “Points,” and why do these numbers sometimes differ?

No matter how many criteria you include in your evaluation form (each rated on a scale from 0 to 10), all evaluation forms should remain comparable. That’s why each form is standardized to a total of 100 weighted points.

  • The “Total” shows the raw score for each category (i.e., the sum of all points given for that category).

  • The “Points” refer to the weighted points, which reflect the importance of each category based on its weighting.

👉 You can assign different weights to different categories to reflect their importance to your organization.

For example, if a certain category—like “Soft Skills”—is particularly important in your company, you might assign it a 70% weighting. That means this category contributes 70 out of the 100 weighted points.


Example:

  • Each criterion can be rated from 0 to 10 points. ()

  • There are 3 criteria in this category.

  • This means the maximum total score for this category is 30 points (per evaluator).

  • The category weighting is 70%. ()

  • Therefore, the maximum weighted score ()is 70 points (per evaluator).

Conversion in this example:
70 ÷ 30 ≈ 2.33
So, each raw point equals approximately 2.33 weighted points.

Examples:

  • 26 points (Total) → approx. 61 weighted points

  • 27 points → approx. 63 weighted points

  • 25 points → approx. 58 weighted points

💡 Tips for you as a trainer

  • Use evaluation forms regularly - they provide structure and comparability. Gen Z in particular attaches great importance to regular feedback from you.

  • Create assessment templates for typical learning tasks that you and your colleagues can use again and again.

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