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Purpose​

The starting point if you have been asked to complete an assessment.

Audience​

Primary audience:

  • participants

Secondary audience:

  • tenant admins and support staff helping participants through common problems

Guides​

The short version​

If you have signed in, everything asked of you is on one page. Go to /me/assessments. It lists every assessment you have been asked for, across every organisation, and it is where joining a campaign or accepting an invitation takes you. The one exception is helpful rather than confusing: when there is exactly one thing to do and nothing else to tell you about, the page takes you straight into it instead of showing a list of one. Add ?list=1 to the address if you want the list anyway.

The cards come first, and everything else is one "More" you can open. Inviting a colleague, seeing your organisation's results, the "email me about new assessments" box and the way to withdraw all used to sit open on the page at once, under the list — now they are behind one More disclosure below the cards, closed until you open it. Nothing moved out of the page: opening More shows all four, in the order your results, invite a colleague, email preferences, withdraw. On an empty page, More is omitted unless there is an email preference you can actually change.

The page greets you by name when your roster row states one, and by your address otherwise ("These are open to Dee" / "These are open to dee@example.org").

The list is grouped, and the four groups mean different things. Each assessment is a card, and the card carries a badge saying which of the four it is — the word, not just a colour.

GroupBadgeWhat it means
To completeRequiredYou have been asked for this and it is open now. The card has an Open button and says how long the link lasts.
OptionalOptionalOpen to you, but nobody is waiting on it. It opens the same way.
Not yet availableNot yet availableSomething has to be finished first. The card says which — "Available after the Core Set" — and has no button until then. When the assessment it is waiting on is also on your page, that sentence is a link straight to it.
CompletedCompletedDone. Either you finished it, or, for an assessment answered once per organisation, a colleague did — in which case the card names them and the date. If the organisers have published a result for that wave, the card also carries See your results.

Every card names the programme and the wave it belongs to, and carries the assessment's own description where one has been written — in your language when the programme has published one.

Some assessments are answered once for a whole organisation or team. Those cards say who they are answered for ("Answered for Acme Construction"). Anyone in that organisation can fill one in, and once somebody has, it is done for everyone — you will see it under Completed with their name on it rather than being asked for it again. If you open one anyway, the questionnaire says so instead of letting you answer it twice.

When you finish one, the page that thanks you says what is next. If anything else is still open for you it is listed there as the same kind of card you see on /me/assessments; if nothing is, it says so.

And so does the page you get if you come back to something already done. Following your link a second time — to an assessment you have already submitted, or to one a colleague has filed for your organisation — shows you what happened and, underneath it, whatever is still open for you. You do not have to go back to the list to find the next one.

You can ask to be told when something new is added. Inside More on /me/assessments, each programme has one tick box and one short reminder that the choice affects email only, not your consent or answers. The fuller explanation—including how unsubscribe affects the choice—lives on /me/preferences.

/me/preferences is the home of every standing preference you have — that same email box, which language a programme writes to you in, and a read-only summary of what each programme has on record for your consent, with the withdraw action beside it. See Your preferences for the full page. It links back here and /me/assessments links to it, so there is no third place any of it lives.

If that page is empty, it stays short: one heading naming the signed-in address, one sentence, then links to My accounts, Get in touch and help getting back in. A campaign-scoped link also offers See everything open to you, without adding another explanatory paragraph. If you belong to a BIMei organisation that has no Assessor account linked to it yet, the diagnostic above the empty state names it and says what to ask for.

If that page is empty and you know you were asked for something, it may be that you are on the roster but not yet linked to the organisation (or the group) the assessment is answered by — the coordinator's own row for you is missing that one fact. When that is the cause, /me/assessments names the campaign and says so directly, with a contact to ask rather than the general "nothing is waiting" message. This is set on your row, not by you — asking the coordinator to add it is what opens the assessment.

You usually do not need an account. Most assessment links open straight away.

Your answers save themselves. A pill at the top of the page says "Draft saved". You can close the tab and come back.

Come back in the same browser. Your place is held by the browser you started in, not by your name. A different device looks like a fresh start.

You cannot edit after submitting. Ask the organisers if something needs correcting — a reviewer can reopen your submission.

Sign-in is handled by BIMei. If a link asks you to sign in, that is where passwords and account recovery live.

Belonging to an organisation does not automatically give you its Assessor workspace. If your BIMei membership is linked but no workspace role has been assigned to you, sign-in takes you to /me/assessments rather than to an operator dashboard you cannot use.

Your results​

Some campaigns show you what they found. When the organisers have turned that on, a Your results panel appears on /me/assessments under the assessments, and the page that thanks you after you submit carries the same list. Each line is one report; opening it draws your own result.

(Coordinators: turning this on for a report, including the platform's built-in BIMmaas Maturity Profile, is done from a campaign's reporting page — see Reports and scorecards.)

Whose result you see is the same rule as the questionnaire. If the assessment was answered once for your organisation, the result is your organisation's — the answers a colleague filed count as much as yours, because under that rule they are the same submission. If it was answered by you individually, the result is yours alone.

When you see it is the organisers' choice, and the page says which it is. There are three settings, and the panel prints the one in force rather than leaving you to guess:

What it saysWhat it means
Nothing yet, with "as soon as your answers are in"Results appear the moment your organisation's answer is filed.
"published when this wave closes"Nothing until the campaign ends.
"ready but have not been released yet"The organisers decide the day.

A comparison against everyone else is not always shown, and that is deliberate. Where it is missing, the page says why instead of leaving a gap. The commonest reason is that too few organisations have taken part so far: with a small group, a comparison says more about the individuals in it than about the sector, so none is published until at least five have answered. The other reason is that not everyone answered the same version of the questionnaire, which would mean comparing unlike with unlike.

You need an address to see results. If you answered anonymously with an access code, there is nothing to attach a result to and none is offered — the access code still exports or deletes your own answers.

Inviting a colleague​

Inside More, "Invite a colleague" only appears when there is something a link could actually carry. Most assessments are answered by you alone, and there is no organisation-wide instance for a second person to join — the panel does not offer the form for those. It appears when at least one of a programme's assessments is answered once for your organisation or team, which is exactly the case a colleague's answer could count towards.

The header's language picker and sign-out​

/me/assessments, the results pages it links to, and /me/preferences all carry the same two controls in the header: a language select (the full set the product offers, not only what one account has published — see What language you see, and how to change it) and a Sign out link. Changing the language here is step 2 of that page's own list — it writes to this browser and reloads the page you are on.

What your emails say, and how it matches this page​

An invitation or a reminder never lists an assessment you have already finished. Only what is still open to you is offered — the same rule the Completed group on this page follows.

The button in the email names the assessment, exactly the way the card's own button does. "Open Core Set" in your inbox and "Open Core Set" on /me/assessments are the identical sentence, in your own language, for the identical step — so following the email and opening the page never feel like two different products describing the same thing.

  • Glossary — the words used in the interface.