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How do YouCoachApp's digital evaluation forms work

How do YouCoachApp's digital evaluation forms work
Summary
Let's find out all the features you can use to evaluate your players during sports season
Coach, athletic trainers and members of the technical staff could need a tool to evaluate players, in particular their skills during matches and workouts, and to monitor their progress. Regardless of the age group. In order to see progress, it is necessary to use the same tools during a period of time, and these tools need to be capable of showing positive or negative trends. Many think that evaluation should only come at the end of an educational path, but in fact it is part and parcel of each learning phase. 
 
If you ever experienced losing patience in front of a Word document, trying to make the font bigger or editing the layout of a table, this article was made for you! 
It is time to put old paper notes and bad Excel tables aside.
Thanks to YouCoachApp's evaluation forms, you can finally focus only on the content of your evaluations! 
Evaluation forms are digital table of notes that can be filled in at anytime during sports season, always editable as appropriate to the coach and their staff. With YouCoachApp you can collect them in a safe place and fill them in easily, comparing them in order to have a real feedback on the progress your players made during the season! 
 
Let's see how they work.
1) CHOOSE WHICH ASPECTS TO EVALUATE 

HOW TO CREATE AN EVALUATION FORM TEMPLATE
 
You can create different templates for different evaluations. Evaluation forms can be customized in every detail to meet the needs of evaluation both for training sessions and matches. 
In order to create a new evaluation form template, click on the menu “Settings” and then “Evaluation form templates”.
 

Basic Evaluation Form

 
If you don't know exactly how to set your form, or if you prefer to follow a template, you can create a basic evaluation form.
This form, still editable, is organized in five sections: 
  • Technical area
  • Attacking Tactical Area
  • Defensive Tactical Area 
  • Physical Area
  • Personal Character  Area 
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Custom evaluation form
 
If you already made up your mind on what you need to evaluate, click on  “Create New Template”.
The template has sections in which you can indicate various elements you want to evaluate and the type of value to assign (such as a vote from 1 to 10, a descriptive text and more). 
  • Give a title to your form based on what you need to evaluate (for example, 1 vs 1);
  • Create different sections to evaluate specific aspects (for example, separate attacking and defensive phases);
  • Choose evaluation criteria and type of answers: closed-ended tests (for a quicker evaluation), open-ended tests (to be able to elaborate);
  • Review each section, then save.
Evaluation forms are fully customizable and you can edit, delete or customize them anytime you want.
 
Evaluation form template
 

2) EVALUATE YOUR PLAYERS

HOW TO FILL IN AN EVALUATION FORM
 
Once the templates are ready, you can start using them: to evaluate players click on the menu item “Show all Players”, click on each profile and then on “Evaluations”.
In this page you can highlight your player's strenghts and weaknesses. 
To fill in an evaluation, click on “Create New Evaluation” and choose the form you want to fill in.
 
 
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Fill in all sections, then click on “Save”.
Please note: Remember to check the box "Confidential" if you don't want the player to see this evaluation, no matter what permissions you gave them.
If you have a video you want to add, enter its YouTube link (you cannot upload a video here).
CHECK PROGRESS REGULARLY AND COMPARE EVALUATIONS
 
Remember that you can fill in the same evaluation form many times during sports season.
The section “Evaluations” in each player's profile there is a recap of all their evaluations.
Thanks to “Compare selected evaluations” feature, with one click you can compare the forms you filled in to check (clearly and immediately) evaluated performance trends. 
This extraordinary feature processes the history of evaluations created and shows data and info that would be difficult to perceive with paper notes. Once again, our web app offers you a great opportunity: to learn more about the work you are doing with your team. It is up to you to adjust it!
 
 
Compare evaluations
 
The possibility to read the history of evaluations and to analyse trends has a double advantage. On one side, it helps the coach reorganize avoiding the loss of meaningful analysis and statistics about the players. On the other side, it is very useful for the Club in order to get to know players' learning pathway. 
Imagine you are a new coach and you need to know better your team's players. By accessing their profile you can read the evaluations made by previous coaches!
COLLECT AND READ TEMPLATES
 
List of templates
 
“Evaluation Form Templates” section, accessible from the menu item "Settings", represents your digital folder. Here you will find all the templates you created, sorted and ready to be used every time you need.
SHARE FORMS WITH YOUR PLAYERS
 
It's important, and sometimes requested by players themselves, to let them know about their evaluations. This can represent the perfect place for confrontation between coach and player, useful to improve work schedule for the first one and to boost motivation for the second one. 
To enable a single player to see personal evaluation forms, the player must be invited to join the account, then they need access to this feature -  we explained how you can do it here.
 
THE BENEFITS OF THIS FEATURE
Here are some practical benefits:
  • safe storage;
  • automatic analysis of the history of evaluations;
  • refillable forms;
  • cusomizable forms;
  • preconfigured, standard template for evaluation forms;
  • forms you can share with players.

If you use evaluation forms, explore this feature and many more on YouCoachApp!

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