# Glossary

- clinical notification states
  Indicates a chair status, for example, a request from a provider for a start check, approval, or assistance. These requests are displayed in the appointments lists as clinical notification indicators.
- combined mode grading
  A provider is graded at the time of a treatment as well as graded periodically.
- cumulative evaluations
  Refers to treatments that are evaluated multiple times. This is when a faculty member must continue marking the original cumulative form, for example, progress treatments required for a crown.
- existing evaluation
  An evaluation that involves grading.
- general evaluation
  Contains general questions about a provider's performance - no treatments are evaluated.
- held evaluations
  Forms held for completion at a later point in time by the logged-in instructor or by another instructor.
- patient evaluation
  An evaluation performed on behalf of a patient, usually tied to treatments performed on a patient.
- periodic evaluation
  Evaluation form used to evaluate a provider not tied to sessional grading.
- planned treatments
  Treatments planned for a future date.
- progressive evaluations
  Also known as cumulative evaluations when faculty grades a portion of a treatment-specific form per visit, and then returns to the original form to continue grading as a procedure progresses from in-process to complete.
- provider items
  Consist of treatments, notes, EPR forms, clinical findings, periodontal charts, and letters.
- sessional evaluation
  When a provider is graded at the time.
- treatment specific
  Evaluation questions that pertain to a specific treatment. These require additional grading in a sessional evaluation form.