Settings

Setting are used to set the default behaviour of Brilliant Assessments for you.

1. Site Name. This field is used for Identification by Brilliant Assessments only and is non-modifiable.  It is usually assigned by you initially when you set up the Trial.  If you need it to be changed, contact Brilliants Assessments.
2. Domain Name. This field is non-modifiable.  Please contact Brilliant Assessments if you want to access the product with a different domain name.
3. From Email Address is the email address that the site will send all emails from. It will often be a support or info email address.  Note that it is a requirement of spam filter to ensure that emails come from the email server registered to your domain.  Therefore the SMTP details set up below must match your email servers details.
4. SMTP Host. This will be available your email service provider.
5. SMTP Port. This will be available your email service provider.
6. SMTP SSL Enabled. This will be available your email service provider.
7. SMTP User Name. Usually, this is your email address.  It will be available your email service provider.
8. SMTP Password. This will be available your email service provider.
9. Timezone. Select your time zone and the times and dates of responses will be shown in that time zone.
10. Use Segmentation. Segmentation allows you to have an additional scoring strategy that crosses section and subsection boundaries.  Questions can be marked as applicable to any number (or no) segmentations.  Ratings can then be reported for the segmentations as well as the sections and subsections.  Tick this box if you want to use this feature. Read more on Segmentations.
11. Use Business details causes the system to prompt for a lot more detail about a business in the response request, including the address and you can plot its position on Google Maps to get its Longitude/Latitude.
12. Use Status for Response. If ticked a completed response cannot be re-entered.
13. Section Menu. If ticked the response entry screen will have a section menu to assist in easy navigation around the response. Usually, this is only required when an assessor is using the system.
14. Show Report Text 2. Tick if You need a second set of report text on the answers.  This may be used, for example, to separate positive and negative comments on the report, or to feed a summary section in the feedback report with shorter recommendations than for a detailed section.
15. Show Report Text 3. Provides additional options for Report Text 2. 
16. Has Business Name on Progress. Not available in this version.
17. Use Subsections on Survey – indicates whether subsections are shown on the Section menu, to allow navigation direct to a subsection.
18. Show Respondents – Only available if a CRM has been integrated, using the API. Please contact Brilliant Assessments if you wish to use this feature.
19. On Screen Pricing. If selected prices can be loaded for assessment and will be shown for Available Assessments in the respondent Portal or from the Available Assessments List. (Further Details on Available Assessments)
20. Certifications Issued. If the system is being used to issue certifications, this checkbox should be ticked.  The system manages whether a response meets the certification grade required, prompts (by email) re-sitting failed certifications and prompts (by email) resitting certifications after they expire (e.g. annually).
21. Block Support Access.  If this box is selected Brilliant Assessments support personnel cannot access your site.
22. Strong Password security. If this box is selected the following password rules are implemented:
    • Passwords must be at least 8 characters, and use three of the four character sets (upper case, lower case, numeric, special characters (e.g. !@#$%&*()+=)
    • Maximum of 7 attempts until a 30  minute delay
    • Passwords expire after 90 days
    • Cannot reuse a password within 10 passwords 
23. 360 Report Initiation. If this box is selected the system activates the 360 Initiation Functionality. The 360 Initiation functionality allows you to invite 'subjects' to initiate their own 360 Feedback Report.  They can invite others to assess them, and the Cohort Reporting is used to produce the composite report.
24. Stripe Keys (Public and Private). If you want to charge respondents for assessments using the system, register with stripe.com and record your keys here.  For testing enter the test keys, when in production, enter your production keys.  See Below for Details of accessing your Stripe keys at Stripe.com
25. Respondent portal Top and Bottom Banner colors. Specify the color code for the banner at the top and bottom of the respondent portal and / or the 360 Report Initiation Screen.  Normally this would match the background color of the logo or image you specify for the top of the respondent portal screen / 360 Initiation Screen (by adding an entry to the graphic table with the type of Respondent Header or Footer).  The banners will be the full width of the screen.
26. Default Colour.  This is the color used by the administration and assessment managers portal.  The colors for the response are set  on the assessment screen.

Integrating to Stripe.com

If you wish to charge respondents to take your assessments, you have to establish an account at Stripe.com.  When you have access to your dashboard, locate the API Keys as shown below.  You need to enter both the Public and Private keys.  They will be held in Brilliant Assessments encrypted and will appear blank when you access the Settings screen again.  You only have to enter them when you wish to change them.

1. In the Stripe.com dashboard, expand the developers section.
2. Click the API keys menu item
3. Copy the Publishable key into the Brilliant Assessments Settings screen Strip Public Key Field.
4. View and copy the Secret key into the Brilliant Assessments Settings screen Strip Private Key Field.