A composite score is the normalized average score of all the rating scale questions a reviewee has received during a review cycle, across different reviewers and evaluation forms.
It gives admins a single number to rank, calibrate, and compare reviewees without exporting raw data and averaging manually in spreadsheets.
For Admins
Composite scores appear in four places in the admin experience:
Reviewee table: An additional Composite Score column is shown in the reviewee table within a review cycle. Admins can sort on this column to rank-order reviewees.
Reviewee slideout: The composite score appears in the slide-out alongside the rest of the reviewee's information.
Review cycle setup: When configuring a consensus review stage, admins choose whether consensus reviewers can see the reviewee's composite score in the consensus reviewer slide-out in the Reviewer Visibility step.
PDF templates: When creating or editing a PDF template, admins can now choose to include the composite score in two places within the template:
The PDF checkbox lives in the Template Settings section, under the "Include Employee Data" toggle.
Toggle on the 'Summary Table' to show the composite score with the other per-question score columns.
Once the PDF is exported, these will be viewable:
As an additional column in the Summary Table (alongside per-question score columns).
In the Employee Data header on each reviewee's cover page.
Please note this is test data.
For Non-Admins
Composite scores are admin-facing by default. The only non-admin role that can see a reviewee's composite score is a consensus reviewer, and only when the admin has explicitly enabled composite score visibility in the Reviewer Visibility step of the review cycle setup.
When enabled, the consensus reviewer sees the composite score in the reviewee slide-out while completing their consensus form. Reviewees do not see composite scores anywhere in the product, including when evaluations are released to them.
Important Notes:
Composite score in PDFs reflects only reviewer evaluation stage responses.
Self-evaluations and consensus stage responses are not included in the composite calculation.
Composite score is admin-facing only. If a PDF template is configured to be shared with reviewees, admins should consider whether to include the composite column.
Composite score calculation excludes text questions, yes/no, and multi-select questions, only rating scale questions contribute.
N/A responses and blank submissions are excluded from the calculation (not counted as zero).
If a reviewee received zero ratings on a given question, that question is excluded entirely from their composite.