How to weight criteria (questions) in the 360 internal portal to make some more important than others

Owned by Asfand Khan
Last updated: Dec 14, 2023
2 min read

Step-by-step guide

To assign a weight to a question:

  1. Sign-in to https://360users.apetsoftware.com.au/ as the Request Manager
  2. From the main menu, click Requests
  3. If using the new look:
    1. Click Drafts
    2. Click Configure against the desired request
    3. Click either:
      1. Request Info (Old Look)
        1. Click on the section name in the top menu
      2. Request Dashboard (New Look)
        1. Click Questionnaire
        2. Click Open (in Old Look) against desired section
  4. If using the old look:
    1. Select the request from the list
    2. Click on the section name in the top menu
  5. Click on the   icon of the question that will be weighted (made more or less important)
  6. Enter the desired Relative Weight
  7. Click Update


Relative weighting is applied to both questions and sections.

  • The executive team should identify importance at a macro level (section weightings)
    For example: "Environmental Management" may be equally important as "Community Consultation" and only half as important as "Structural Integrity" so the sections' relative weights would be 5, 5, 10 (or a similar ratio)
  • The subject matter experts should identify importance at a micro level (question weightings)
    For example: "Spill Containment Measures" may be nearly twice as important as "Dust Containment Measures" so the questions' relative weights would be 18, 10 (or a similar ratio)

Don't be tempted to use percentages.  Relative weights are far easier to work with than percentages and 360 will calculate percentages for you.


To compare responses fairly, a good answer to an important criterion must be weighted more highly than a good answer to a trivial criterion.

360 uses comparison-of-importance (this criterion is relatively more important than that criterion) in its underlying algorithms to determine best value for money.

In short, the important criterion must have a higher relative weight than the trivial criterion.

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