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title: "Personal goal settings"
slug: "personal-goal-settings"
updated: 2025-07-22T10:52:18Z
published: 2025-07-22T11:18:48Z
canonical: "totara.help/personal-goal-settings"
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# Personal goal settings

When [creating a personal goal](/19/docs/create-a-personal-goal), either for yourself or a user in your team, you can configure the following settings.

| **Setting** | **Description** | **Notes** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Name | Enter a title for the goal that will appear on the user's **Goals** page. | - |
| Description | Enter any additional text required to describe the goal. | - |
| Type | Select a goal type. This will determine which custom fields are available to add additional information to a goal. |  |
| Scale | Select the scale that will be used to mark the user's progress towards the goal. | - |
| Target date | Enter the date by which the goal needs to be achieved. Note that this date does not trigger reminders or notifications, rather it is informational only. | - |

![Course badge](https://cdn.document360.io/a007399b-031e-436b-999a-528240e16f58/Images/Documentation/course-badge_goals(1).svg?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-01T18%3A10%3A54Z&se=2026-11-01T19%3A10%3A54Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=iR5ZUbqQOoFXd8AYQnpY5tyguLnwCuzp%2Fj4oEvtp0cQ%3D)The Totara Academy has a whole course dedicated to using [Goals](https://totara.community/course/view.php?id=710) in Totara Learn. Here you can learn more on how to use goals, see best practice, and give it a go yourself.

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