Managing Skills

This page covers the three dashboard entries used to build up the platform's skill catalog: importing skills in bulk, managing the skill definitions themselves, and assigning each skill to a level scale.

Skills Import

Skills > Skills import lets you bulk-create a skill hierarchy from a CSV or XML file, instead of creating skills one by one. Each row needs at minimum an id, a parent_id (to build the tree), and a title. A sample template is available to base your file on.

Manage Skills

Skills > Manage skills is the main skill catalog: create, edit, enable/disable, and delete skills. Each skill has a title, a short code, a description, an icon, and an optional criteria description (what a learner needs to do to earn it). Skills can be nested — a skill can have child skills — which is what the Skills Wheel visualizes.

Manage Skills Levels

Skills > Manage skills levels is a separate, smaller screen: it lists existing skills and lets you assign each one to a level profile — a named, ordered set of levels (for example Bronze/Silver/Gold) that the skill is measured against. In short: use Manage skills to define what a skill is, and Manage skills levels to define what scale it's measured on.

How Skills Get Awarded

A skill is awarded to a user (recorded as an issued skill, with a date) through one of a few paths:

• Automatically, when a learner meets a gradebook category's threshold — configured on the Skills and Assessments page

• Automatically, on completing specific courses the skill is linked to

• Manually, by a teacher (if Teachers can assign skills is enabled) or an administrator