Skills can be a powerful tool to track learning progress. They help learners and managers get an overview of the current skills learners have, their progress in these skills, and even can be set up so that the learner gets recommended courses based on specific jobs.
This guide gives a quick overview of how to set up skills and what can be done with them, linking to the relevant articles that dig deeper into these settings.
Adding Skills
The first steps towards working with skill is enabling the use of them, and then adding the skills to the academy.
The Learning solution has a database of system-defined skills for you to choose from. These system-defined skills already come with a name and description, as well as a type and category. You can also define your own skills. If you decide to define your own, we recommend you make sure that the name and description give a good overview of their goal.
You can group multiple related skills together to make it easier to later find and assign them to learners or connect (map) them to training.
Assigning and Assessing Skills
When you have enabled skills and added them to your academy, you can assign them to learners. This will make this skill required for this learner, making it easier to find it under the Required Skills tab when performing assessments. The score given by the manager assessment will show the progress of the learner on these skills; if self assessments are allowed, you can also see the perception gap, showing the difference in how the learner rates themselves versus how their manager rates them.
Learners will be able to see the required assessments, and if enabled, perform self-assessments on them under their skills dashboard.
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Perform an Assessment as a Manager
Connecting Skills
You might prefer that skills get automatically assessed by the activities the learner completes. This is possible by connecting the skills to courses and On-the-Job Training. Specifically, the skills need to be added to the exams and tasks within those. When a learner completes the exam questions with a connected skill, or the tasks in an On-the-Job Training with a connected skill, the learner will be graded on them.
You can decide how much weight is given to the automated assessments versus the manual assessment for a specific metric.
Skills can also be connected to jobs. This way, you can see how well the learner is doing on skills specific to their job - and courses can be recommended based on these skills. Skills connected to jobs also are used in creating career paths.
Prioritize Automated Or Manual Assessments
Career Paths
Career paths can be enabled in your academy to generate a recommended list of courses based on the skills connected to a job. When you have skills both connected to courses and jobs, this can be a powerful way to help learners train the required skills for future roles in your company.