Designing a scorecard people actually fill out

The best rubric in the world is worthless if reviewers skip it. Adoption is a design problem, not a policy problem — and the fixes are mostly about reducing friction at the exact moment of scoring.

Put the score next to the evidence

Reviewers fill out scorecards when the score lives beside the video and the notes, not in a separate tab. Every context switch is a chance to give up and write 'strong yes' with no detail.

• Show the rubric anchors inline, so nobody has to remember what a 4 means.
• Save automatically — a lost draft is a reviewer you won't get back.
• Make the summary a side effect of scoring, not a second task.

When the scorecard is the path of least resistance, completion rates climb on their own.