As an Appraisal Administrator you can customise Clarity Appraisals to fit the settings of your organisation

Click "Organisation" in the top menu to go to the Organisation area.

The Organisation area of Clarity Appraisals allows you to add users to your organisation, customise appraisal and MSF settings and manage your users.

Use the links below for more information on:

Revalidation dates

To view a list of appraisees that have not yet entered their Revalidation date, or to manage the dates appraisees have entered into Clarity Appraisals:

• Click Revalidation on the top menu

• Click "Without Revalidation Cycle" in the left navigation bar

• Clicking Yes will filter the apprisees to show only those who have entered their revalidation date
• Clicking No will show only the appraisees that have not yet entered their revalidation date

You can sort the table alphabetically according to name, by GMC number or by their last revalidation date by clicking the headings. 

You can set an appraisee's revalidation date for them by clicking .

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Inviting users

To invite users to join your organisation

Resending Invitations

You can resend invitations if the recipient has not responded within 4 days.

• Click 
• Tick the boxes next to any email addresses that you wish to re-send invitations to
• Click the blue "Re-send Selected" button

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Adding users

As an administrator you can add current users to your organisation and assign them roles. You can only add users who currently use Clarity Appraisals, either within your organisation or as part of another.

To add a user's role to your organisation

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Departments

As an Appraisal Administrator you can sort your appraisees into Departments:

• Click “Organisation” in the top menu bar
• Click “Manage Departments” in the left navigation bar

To add a department

• Enter a name for your department
• Click  
• Click  in the drop down menu
• Click the 'Manage appraisees' button to show the drop down menu 

• Click 
• Search for the appraisees you wish to assign to this department using the search function
• Tick the boxes to the right of any appraisees you wish to add
• Click 

To remove appraisees from a department

• Click  in the drop down menu next to the department
• Click the 'Manage Appraisees' button to show the drop down menu 
• Click 
• Search for the appraisees you wish to remove from this department using the search function
• Tick the boxes to the right of any appraisees you wish to remove
• Click 

To rename a department

• Click  in the drop down menu on the main Departments page
• Enter the new name for your department
• Click 

To Delete a department

• Click  in the drop down menu
• Click  to confirm

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Organisation settings

You organisation settings can be configured to personalise Appraisal Toolkit to your organisation. You can adjust your:

1. Appraisal Configuration (settings linked directly to appraisals within your organisation)
2. Optional Appraisal Features (Enable and disable appraisal features to meet your organisation's requirements)
3. MSF Settings (Adjust settings to change how MSF is managed within your organisation)

Click  to change your settings.

Appraisal Configuration

• Choose how you want appraisal evidence to be collected
  • Appraisal Year
  • Due date
• Choose how you want the appraisals for your organisations spread out
  • Monthly
  • Quarterly
  • Yearly
• Choose whether you want Appraisal Toolkit to automatically create new appraisals for appraisees when their current appraisal is signed off
• Choose whether you want Appraisal Toolkit to automatically allocate the same Appraiser to new appraisals.
• Chose whether Appraisers can appraise the same appraisee in consecutive years.
• Determine how many appraisals an Appraiser can perform in an appraisal period
• Determine how many times an appraisee can be appraised by the same Appraiser.
• Appraisal self management - Choose whether to give your appraisees permission to adjust their appraisal evidence dates themselves.
• Auto-create appraisals for new users - Chose whether to set Appraisal Toolkit to auto-create an appraisal for newly registered users in your organisation.

For more information on each setting hover over the  icon next to each option on your Appraisal Toolkit screen.

Click  after making any changes. 

Optional Appraisal Features

 Choose to enable or disable

•  GMP Attributes and Assessment
  • If you enable this setting, appraisees can map each item in their appraisals to the domains set out in Good Medical Practice
• ORSA Feedback
  • If you enable this setting, your appraisees and Appraisers will be required to complete Clarity's ORSA questionnaire, giving you feedback regarding your organisation's appraisal process. 

In secondary care only you can also choose to enable or disable:

• CPD Claim Impact (this is always enabled in primary care)
  • If you enable this setting, your appraisees can claim impact and double their CPD score for activities that have impacted their patient or their practice. Impact can also be adjusted by Appraisers.
• CPD Internal/External
  • If you enable this setting, your appraisees will be required to specify whether CPD points are accrued internally or externally.

Changes you make will be saved automatically.

MSF Settings

You can adjust the MSF settings to comply with your organisation's MSF process. Choose:

• The minimum required number of Patient and Colleague responses per cycle
• To enable or disable paper-based MSF
  • If you enable this setting your appraisees can buy paper MSF packs from Clarity to collect feedback from patients. Click here for more details.
• If you have enabled Paper-based MSF you can pre-order paper packs for your appraisees. Click  to contact the Clarity Customer Support Team directly to place your order.

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Appraiser training

To view a grid displaying all of the training undertaken by appraisers in your organisation:

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