Manage competency assignments

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Managing competency assignments

You can manage competency assignments on your site by following these steps:

  1. Go to Quick-access menu > Competency assignments. 
  2. Use the icons (as detailed below) to perform actions.

When viewing the list of competency assignments you will see icons alongside each assignment. 

  • Activate the assignment ()
  • Archive the assignment ()
  • Delete the assignment () assignments

The actions available will depend on the assignment's current status. 

Users managing competency assignments need to have the totara/competency:manage_assignments and moodle/user:viewdetails capabilities.

Bulk manage competency assignments

You can perform the same action on multiple competency assignments using the Bulk action dropdown menu. 

  1. Go to Quick-access menu > Competency assignments. 
  2. Select the competency assignments you wish to perform the action on.
  3. Click the Bulk action dropdown menu. 
  4. Select the action you wish to perform:
    • Activate
    • Archive
    • Delete (items must be archived before they can be deleted)
  5. You will see a confirmation box, read this and then select Yes if you are happy to proceed. 

Filtering

You can filter competency assignments to drill-down and display only the assignments you are currently interested in seeing. 

There are a number of ways you can filter competency assignments:

  • By status (e.g. draft, active, or archived)
  • By assignment type
  • By competency framework
  • By searching (using the search box)

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