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## What's new

- **Capacity templates.** Mark an Assessment template as a `Capacity assessment` and give it a
  divergence threshold (20 % of a question's highest score by default) and rating bands on the
  total, such as `Developing`, `Established` and `Strong`. A capacity template is never offered to
  an assessment round. See [Capacity assessments](/administrator/assessments/capacity-assessments).
- **A `Capacity` tab on each organisation.** An applicant registered as an organisation lists its
  capacity assessments with their rating. `Start capacity assessment` names the template, a staff
  scorer and the portfolio lead, two different people, and each gets a task in `My Tasks`.
- **Blind scoring.** Each scorer scores alone and can't see the other's scores, notes or total until
  both have submitted. Submitted scores are final.
- **Divergence flags.** Once both are in, the scores sit side by side and each question where they
  differ by more than the threshold is flagged `Divergent`.
- **Reconcile into a rating.** The portfolio lead, or an administrator who manages assessments,
  records the agreed score for each question, with a reason wherever the scores diverged. Backed
  totals them and gives the rating. A reconciled assessment is read-only, with both sets of scores,
  the reasons and a trail of who did each step and when.