This tutorial will show you how to set up and work with criteria in TransparentChoice. Criteria are important in making a good decision. They represent your goals and drivers, the filters and factors within your decision. Having a tool capable of supporting multiple levels and types of criteria is key to good decision making.

1. Criteria
Working with criteria in
TransparentChoice

2. Criteria
• Criteria are the factors
you use to evaluate the
alternatives
• Often, criteria are goals,
outcomes or targets you
want to affect by your
decision
• Criteria are often made
up of sub-criteria
Getting your criteria
right is key to making a
good decision.
Brainstorming is a good
way to generate a
strong list of criteria.
Click here for that
tutorial.

3. Creating criteria
1. Open a project
2. Click criteria
3. Click on the gear and then “Add sub-
criteria”

4. Creating criteria
1. Give your criterion a name
2. Add a description. This is what your stakeholders
and evaluators will see when filling in their
surveys, so make it count!
3. Choose your evaluation method (see following
slides)
To work out if you
should use pairwise
comparison or scales,
read this blog

5. Creating criteria
1. If you are choosing pairwise comparison…
2. … just hit “Create”
3. You will then be able to add another criterion
4. Close the dialogue box when you’ve created all
the criteria you want to add at this level
Many people use
pairwise comparison
when the shouldn’t.
Learn more…

6. Creating criteria
1. If you are choosing
to use a scale…
2. Select the scale
from your list of
scales you want to
use (or create an
Ad-hoc scale)
3. If you need to tailor
the scale for this
project, you can do
so
4. Hit “Create”

7. Creating criteria
1. If you are choosing
to link your criterion
with an attribute…
2. Select the attribute
you want to use.
You must already
have created your
attribute via the
alternatives page
(or as part of a data
import).
3. Hit “Create”
Learn about creating
attributes from a data
import here

8. Managing the criterion hierarchy
1. Criteria are often “made up of” sub-criteria. E.g. risk might be
comprised of “technology risk”, “implementation risk” and
“organizational risk”
2. To edit a criterion or change the evaluation method, simply click
on the criterion or click on the gear and select “Edit or Delete”
3. Click here and drag to rearrange your hierarchy
4. To delete a criterion, click the gear and then select “Edit or
Delete” followed by the “Delete” button