Skip to main content
Solved

Are you able to set different Grading Schemes (Banding) for different Measures using Scorecards?


manmeet_dosanjh
Forum|alt.badge.img
I have created a few measures that roll up to the overall Health Score for an account. However, each health score measure requires a different grading scheme, or banding of the metrics for the score to be the most effective for our CSMs. For example, in one measure a score below 33 would Red but for another measure the score would be Red if it was below 50. 

I did not see a way to change the grading scheme without it affecting all the measures. Is this possible? If so, I would love for some assistance on this! I can use either the old Scorecard or Scorecards 2.0. 

Thanks!

Best answer by dan_ahrens

Thanks for providing the example. 

I think your recommendation to have the data science team adjust the models to work with a standardized grading scheme would be best. That way, there's no confusion with your team trying to understand why a score of 40 is red with one measure but yellow with another. Keeping it standardized and simple is best.
View original
Did you find this topic helpful?

12 replies

aditya_marla
  • Helper ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • 482 replies
  • June 26, 2018
Hi Manmeet, 

It is not possible to change the definition of the grading scheme per measure.But you can add help text for each measure explaining what the color means. 
Which scorecard scheme are you using? (Is it numeric?)
It would be great if you can provide some more deails on the measures / how does the CSM set the score & whether the number of the score (30/50) is more important or the score label (i.e whether the measure is red/green).

manmeet_dosanjh
Forum|alt.badge.img
Thanks for the reply!

I am using the numeric grading scheme. 

The calculated measures and their banding are coming directly from our Data Science team. They send me updated scores every month. However, the issue I am now facing with new measures that were implemented have different banding. So for one of the new ones, a score below 33 is 'Red' while for the other measure if the score is below 50 its a 'Red'. 

These are all automated measures that roll up to our overall health score which had the original grading scheme. 

dan_ahrens
Forum|alt.badge.img+2
  • Expert ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • 1984 replies
  • June 26, 2018
Hi Manmeet, I'm curious as to some of the examples where you'd want a score value to be Red in one instance but the same score show as Yellow or Green on another measure. Can you provide an example or two?

manmeet_dosanjh
Forum|alt.badge.img
Yeah of course, happy to elaborate! This was based on recommendation from our Data Science team. For example, they just operationalized 2 new health measures - "Utilization" and "Engagement". These take in different data models and the banding was different for them. 

For Utilization score, < 33 = Red, <
50 = Yellow, otherwise Green

For the Engagement score, < 50 = Red, <
75 = Yellow, otherwise Green

Ideally, using different banding is preferable as the scores will be distributed differently per measure. So a 'passing' grade on one measure doesn't necessarily mean it will match up to the other measures.

I don't think it will be a huge deal, as they should be able to re-run the models so that we can just use a standardized grading scheme which will just require a bit more work on their end. Just thought it was interesting that this hasn't come up before!

dan_ahrens
Forum|alt.badge.img+2
  • Expert ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • 1984 replies
  • Answer
  • June 27, 2018
Thanks for providing the example. 

I think your recommendation to have the data science team adjust the models to work with a standardized grading scheme would be best. That way, there's no confusion with your team trying to understand why a score of 40 is red with one measure but yellow with another. Keeping it standardized and simple is best.

heather_landgraf
  • Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • 74 replies
  • December 11, 2019

I need something similar but not even at the measure level - at the scorecard level.  We have three different scorecards with different measures and weights.  And we would like the grading scheme for R Y G to be different for each scorecard but seems as though you can only set once for all scorecards?  


lila_meyer
Forum|alt.badge.img+5
  • Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • 1447 replies
  • December 31, 2019

Hi @heather_landgraf That’s correct; you can only have one grading scheme for all of your scorecards. If you’d like to make this a feature request, please let me know and we can fork your comment into a new Idea post.


speacher
  • Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • 16 replies
  • February 24, 2025

@lila_meyer I’m looking for current updates on this idea but haven’t found one.  Is there now or will there be a way to have multiple scorecards with different color schemes?  We are running into this issue now within our organization because different divisions use different scales and it appears as though all Scorecards 2.0 have to use a single color grading scheme as the settings to update only appear for all and not for each scorecard individually.  Can you point me to a more recent update here?


lila_meyer
Forum|alt.badge.img+5
  • Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • 1447 replies
  • February 24, 2025

Hi ​@speacher Schemes are universal and I’m not aware of any plans to change that. But I brought this up with your CSM and she mentioned you’re connecting tomorrow, so you can discuss the requirement more to see if there’s other functionality or options that would help.


lisa.mirth
Forum|alt.badge.img+9
  • Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️
  • 40 replies
  • February 25, 2025

@speacher In addition to Lila’s note… While schemes are universal, you could use the RYG color scheme for one scorecard and the Grading scheme for another scorecard. These two schemes function very similarly and may solve your challenge. 

https://support.gainsight.com/gainsight_nxt/05Scorecards/02Admin_Guides/Configure_Scorecard_Schemes#Configure_Color_Scheme


speacher
  • Contributor ⭐️⭐️⭐️
  • 16 replies
  • February 25, 2025

@lisa.mirth I see your point for the activities within the scorecard timeline actvities but how does this prevent the Overall Scorecard from having conflicting results?  That’s the primary concern here.


lisa.mirth
Forum|alt.badge.img+9
  • Gainsight Employee ⭐️⭐️
  • 40 replies
  • February 25, 2025

hmmm… I think I misunderstood your use case. Maybe you want different internal stakeholders to see scoring based on different threshholds - that is not possible within a single scorecard configuration.

My suggestion was based on two different scorecards that would be assigned to different accounts/relationships using different schemas for defining threshholds. (ie. Onboarding Scorecard uses Color(RYG) schema that sets Green as 90-100 and Adoption Scorecard uses Grading (A-F) that sets Green as 85-100.)

For more information, check out Admin Office Hours to chat with an expert!


Cookie policy

We use cookies to enhance and personalize your experience. If you accept you agree to our full cookie policy. Learn more about our cookies.

 
Cookie settings