The following are some key concepts that will help you gain a clear understanding of Trellis 2011.

 

Evaluation Project

 

 An evaluation Project is how Trellis 2011 organises all the data related to a single training intervention. The following comprises the data elements stored in an evaluation project.

 

 1.        Details of the training event

 2.        Any number of evaluation forms used to evaluate the event

 3.        For web evaluations - URL information to the web form

 4.        Respondent feedback

 5.        User documentation or notes

 

 

Project Folder

 

 This provides a way of organising evaluation projects so you can readily locate individual projects you are working on.  You can create as many folders as you need based on a naming convention of your choice.

 

 

Template form

 

 A template form is a form you have designed and saved to the template library.  When you  import a template form into your evaluation project, you can modify it without affecting the original template.

 

Using templates makes it easy to get up and running with new form designs.

 

 

Data Entry

 

 Trellis 2011 is designed for multi-user keyed data entry and so supports one or more operators keying respondent feedback into the system.

 

E-Mail

 

 Allows you send evaluation forms to respondents using e-mail. To do this you need to have Microsoft Word and Microsoft Outlook installed on your machine. Once replies are received,  Trellis 2011 can import and process the emails from the relevant Outlook folder.

 

Web

 Allows you to collect feedback online.

 

The Database

 

 All data you enter or import into Trellis is stored in the central database.