Creating manual rating categories

Plan requirement

Subscription Any plan
Also required Quality Assurance or Workforce Engagement Management
Access Admin

Writing a category reviewers can apply consistently. The guidance text is most of the work.

Create one

  1. Open the rating categories in the workspace.
  2. Add a category and write the question.
  3. Choose the scale.
  4. Write what each score means, with an example.
  5. Have two reviewers score the same conversation with it.

Ask one thing

"Was the reply accurate and complete?" is two questions. A reviewer facing a reply that was accurate and incomplete has no honest score to give.

Split it, or accept that the category will be applied inconsistently.

Write it as a question about the conversation

Not about the agent. "Did the reply address the customer's actual question" is checkable. "Does this agent understand our products" is a judgement about a person from one exchange.

The guidance is what makes it work

Two or three lines per score point, with an example from a real conversation. Without it, each reviewer builds their own private standard and the scores stop meaning one thing.

This is the part people skip and the part that determines whether the category survives.

Keep the scale simple

Three points is usually enough: below, meets, exceeds. A five or ten point scale gives an illusion of precision and produces clustering in the middle.

Test with two reviewers

Same conversation, scored independently. If they disagree, rewrite the guidance rather than assuming they will converge with practice.

Allow not applicable

Some categories do not apply to some conversations. Without that option, reviewers score something arbitrary, and the average is polluted.

See also

Was this article helpful?

0

Still stuck?

Our support team will take a look with you.

Comments

0 comments

Article is closed for comments.