Generating an Executive Summary
Before generating your Executive Summary, ensure that your Insights have been properly reviewed and selected. Please see the How to Use Insights article for more details on this pre-requisite step. Creating the Executive Summary
To create your Executive Summary after the assessment Insights have been properly reviewed and selected
- From the "Prepare" mode of an assessment, navigate to the Summary tab.
- Click the Generate button.
To edit the Executive Summary:
Select the arrows icon to navigate to full screen view for easier editing. Reselect this icon at any time to return to the original view.
Click in the text editor box to add, change, or remove text.
User the editor functions to format your text (colour, style, tables, images, etc.). Hovering over any icon in the editor functions box will display a tooltip of its purpose.
Fill in the highlighted sections ( ex. [ in-person / virtually ] and [ location ] ) to tailor the summary to your assessment's details.
Use Headings to organize the sections of your summary.
If full screen mode was being used, re-click the arrows icon to return to the original view.
Printing the Summary Report
To print the summary report after the executive summary has been completed:
On the Low Definition/Gaps Tab, select the range of elements present in the report using the level dropdown.

Navigate back to the Summary tab and click the 'Print' button located in the top right of the page.

Select to sort the Low Scoring Section by Score or Element/Factor Order.
The summary report document is then downloaded as a PDF to your computer.
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