After you, as an Admin, have set up the metrics and metric groups in your academy, you can start pairing them. This article will focus on connecting metrics to On-the-Job Training.
Admins and those with the relevant permissions can associate metrics with specific tasks in On-the-Job Trainings. When these reflect the associated metrics, the score on each task can then point to the kind of jobs in which individuals may excel.
Advanced On the Job Training Settings
Note that if you want the assessments that your users will receive to be reflected on the metrics' dashboards, the type of assessment must be set to score under the Advanced Settings.
Read more: Learning Management Academy Settings
Associating Tasks with Metrics
To associate the tasks of the On the Job Trainings metrics, hover over Training and then click On the Job Training. You will be able to see the Manage On the Job Training option under the trainings that you are a creator of.
Once you are in the On the Job Training panel, click on the Edit Tasks option. Here you can create more tasks or edit the ones you have added in the past.
To associate a task with metrics, just click on the relevant button, select the metrics and your selection will be autosaved.
Evaluation Process
The evaluation process for the users who complete these tasks works as usual, but the score that you give to your users for a task assessment with a connected metrics will also be saved as a metric assessment.
You can read more about how to evaluate your employees here: How can I Evaluate an On the Job Training?
Please note that the task does not need to be signed off for the metric assessment to be logged.
Reporting on these assessments
Once a user has been given a score for an OJT task that is connected with metrics, this score will also be saved as a manual metric assessment for these metrics. The actor for the metrics assessments will be the same manager who has given the OJT assessment.
As these assessments are saved as manual metrics assessments, the7 will be included in the score calculations under the Combined and From Managers tabs on the Metrics Dashboards.
You can read more on how to track your users' metric scores here: How to track the assessments per user, job, and metric?
Moreover, when an Admin or the Manager that assessed the user performs a manual assessment, they will be able to see this assessment below the connected metrics, along with the actor and the OJT it came from.
Read more on how to perform an assessment here: How to perform an assessment as a manager?
Please note: This assessment cannot be edited through the Perform Assessment page.
Last but not least, the users will be able to find these assessments on their Personal Dashboard under the Combined and From Managers tabs. The assessment will display their manager's name along with the OJT they got this assessment on.
Read more on the Metrics Personal Dashboard here: How to keep track of my Metrics Assessments / Progress?