---
title: "Create competency assignments"
slug: "create-competency-assignments"
tags: ["Totara Perform", "How-to", "Content Creator", "Skills"]
updated: 2025-07-22T10:52:18Z
published: 2025-07-22T11:18:48Z
canonical: "totara.help/create-competency-assignments"
---

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# Create competency assignments

Competency assignments allow you to assign [competencies](/19/docs/what-are-competencies) (from your existing [competency frameworks](/19/docs/create-a-competency-framework)) to users or groups of users (e.g. audiences, organisations etc.) and manage those assignments.

Before you create any competency assignments you will first need to ensure you have [created some competencies](/19/docs/add-a-competency) on your site.

Follow these steps to create competency assignments:

1. Go to *Quick-access menu > Competency assignments****.***
2. Select the **Create assignments** button.
3. Choose one or more competency to assign and then select the **Assign** button.
4. From the **Users to assign** dropdown menu select which types of users to add, then select the group or individual users.
5. Select **Save changes** then click the **Create assignments** button.
6. You will be presented with a confirmation message, where you can decide whether to activate the new assignments or not.
7. Finally, select **Yes**.

Users must have the **totara/competency:manage_assignments** and **moodle/user:viewdetails** capabilities to view the **Competency assignments** page.

When assigning competencies by position or organisation users require the **totara/hierarchy:viewposition** or **totara/hierarchy:vieworganisation** respectively.

To assign competencies to audiences users will need either the **moodle/cohort:view** or **moodle/cohort:manage** capability. Only system-level audiences can be assigned competencies (not audiences within categories).

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