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Varicent ELT Assistant

Text grade level

Use the Text grade level tool to return the text grade level for the specified text column.

You can select all or some of these methods to determine grade level:

  • Automated Readability Index

  • Coleman-Liau Index

  • Dale-Chall Readability score

  • Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level

  • Gunning Fog Formula

  • Linsear Write Formula

  • SMOG Index

When to use this tool

Use when you want to find out the reading level for text. It works best if your text values are full sentences.

Configuration

Use the following configuration options to configure the Text grade level tool.

Configuring the Text grade level tool
  1. Go to the Pipes module from the side navigation bar.

  2. From the Pipes tab, click an existing pipe to open, or create a new pipe. To create a new pipe, read the Creating a pipe documentation.

  3. In the Pipe builder, add a data source to your pipe. For more information on adding a data source, see the Data Input tool.Data Input

  4. Click symon_add_icon.png + Tool.

    The Tools modal opens, where you can add tools, such as the  Aggregate  tool, to your pipe.

  5. In the Tools modal search bar, type Text grade level, and then click + Add tool.

    Tip

    You can also find the Text grade level tool in the Learn section.

  6. Click the tool node and drag the line to the next tool to connect the tools. If you need to undo the action, click the line and then click Unlink.

  7. In the configuration pane, under Target column, select the column to use as the target column.

  8. Under Grade methods, select all, some, or none of the grade methods to determine grade level.