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title: Creating Score Priorities
description: "# **Creating Score Priorities** Creating score priorities in uAuditor allows administrators to define importance levels for inspection questions so that critical checkpoints have greater influence on inspection results than lower-impact observations. This helps organizations build structured and meaningful scoring models…"
url: "https://uauditor.com/help-center/templates-resources/score-priorities/creating-score-priorities/"
updated: "2026-05-03"
category: "Templates & Resources / Score Priorities"
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# Creating Score Priorities

# **Creating Score Priorities**

Creating score priorities in uAuditor allows administrators to define importance levels for inspection questions so that critical checkpoints have greater influence on inspection results than lower-impact observations. This helps organizations build structured and meaningful scoring models aligned with operational risk and compliance requirements 📊

Score priorities are configured once and can then be reused across all inspection templates.

## **What Are Score Priorities Used For?**

Score priorities determine how strongly each question affects the final inspection score.

They help:

- emphasize critical compliance checkpoints
- reduce the impact of minor observations
- standardize scoring across templates
- improve performance benchmarking between locations
- strengthen analytics accuracy in dashboards and reports

This ensures inspection scores reflect real operational priorities.

## **When to Create Score Priorities**

Organizations typically create score priorities when:

- launching a new inspection framework
- standardizing scoring across multiple templates
- introducing compliance-weighted scoring models
- separating safety-critical checks from routine observations
- improving branch comparison accuracy

Creating structured priorities early improves long-term reporting consistency.

## **How to Create a Score Priority**

To create a new score priority:

1. Open the Resources module
2. Select Score Priorities
3. Click Create Priority
4. Enter the priority name (English)
5. Enter the priority name (Arabic)
6. Assign a weight value
7. Select a display color
8. Optionally set it as the default priority
9. Click Save

The priority becomes available immediately for use inside inspection templates.

## **Choosing Weight Values**

Weight values determine how much influence a priority level has on inspection scoring.

Example structure:

- High Priority → 50
- Medium Priority → 30
- Low Priority → 20

Higher values increase scoring impact when assigned to questions.

It is recommended to keep weights simple and balanced across templates.

## **Setting a Default Priority**

You can define one priority as the **default priority**.

When set:

- new questions automatically inherit this priority
- template creation becomes faster
- scoring consistency improves across templates

This is especially useful for large inspection environments.

## **Selecting Priority Colors**

Each score priority can include a display color to improve visibility during template design and reporting.

Common examples:

- Red → High priority
- Orange → Medium priority
- Green → Low priority

Color coding helps users quickly identify question importance levels.

## **Where Score Priorities Are Used**

After creation, score priorities can be assigned to:

- dropdown questions
- number questions
- multiple choice questions

They influence:

- inspection score calculations
- performance dashboards
- analytics reports
- branch comparison metrics

This ensures scoring reflects operational importance across inspections.

## **Best Practices for Creating Score Priorities**

To configure score priorities effectively:

- limit priorities to 3–4 levels maximum
- assign higher weights to compliance-critical checkpoints
- standardize priorities across templates
- avoid overlapping importance definitions
- review priorities periodically as inspection workflows evolve

Well-structured score priorities help organizations produce accurate inspection scores that reflect operational risk, compliance exposure, and execution quality across all locations.