Skills

Behaviour of the Skills system — skills tree, awarding rules, profile integration.

Access these settings under Administration > Configuration settings > Skills. This category contains 13 settings, listed below with the title and comment shipped in the platform's settings fixtures (SettingsCurrentFixtures.php).

The variable name in code is shown in monospace. Use it when scripting via the API or when you need to change those settings at a global level by editing config/settings_override.yaml.

Settings

allow_hr_skills_management

Allow HR skills management

Allows HR to manage skills

Default: true

allow_private_skills

Hide skills from learners

If enabled, skills can only be visible for admins, teachers (related to a user via a course), and HRM users (if related to a user).

Default: false

allow_skill_rel_items

Enable linking skills to items

This enables a major feature that enables any item to be linked to (and as such to allow acquisition of) a skill. The feature still requires the teacher to confirm the acquisition of the skill, so the acquisition is not automatic.

Default: false

allow_skills_tool

Allow Skills tool

Users can see their skills in the social network and in a block in the homepage.

Default: true

allow_teacher_access_student_skills

Allow teachers to access learners' skills

[inferred] Allow instructors to view and monitor skills acquired by learners in their courses.

Default: false

badge_assignation_notification

Send notification to learner when a skill/badge has been acquired

[inferred] Send notifications to learners when they acquire a new skill or badge achievement.

Default: false

hide_skill_levels

Hide skill levels feature

[inferred] Conceal the skill level hierarchy and level labels in skill-related views.

Default: false

manual_assignment_subskill_autoload

Assigning skills to user: sub-skills auto-loading

When manually assigning skills to a user, the form can be set to automatically offer you to assign a sub-skill instead of the skill you selected.

Default: false

openbadges_backpack

OpenBadges backpack URL

The URL of the OpenBadges backpack server that will be used by default for all users wanting to export their badges. This defaults to the open and free Mozilla Foundation backpack repository: https://backpack.openbadges.org/

show_full_skill_name_on_skill_wheel

Show full skill name on skill wheel

On the wheel of skills, it shows the name of the skill when it has short code.

Default: false

skill_levels_names

Skill levels names

Define names for levels of skills as an array of id => name.

skills_hierarchical_view_in_user_tracking

Show skills as a hierarchical table

[inferred] Display learner skills as a hierarchical tree structure in progress and reporting pages.

Default: false

skills_teachers_can_assign_skills

Allow teachers to set which skills are acquired through their courses

By default, only admins can decide which skills can be acquired through which course.

Default: false