You can manage skill assignments on your site by following these steps:
Go to Quick-access menu > skill assignments.
Use the icons (as detailed below) to perform actions.
When viewing the list of skill 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 skill assignments need to have the totara/competency:manage_assignments and moodle/user:viewdetails capabilities.
Bulk manage skill assignments
You can perform the same action on multiple skill assignments using the Bulk action dropdown menu.
Go to Quick-access menu > skill assignments.
Select the skill assignments you wish to perform the action on.
Click the Bulk action dropdown menu.
Select the action you wish to perform:
Activate
Archive
Delete (items must be archived before they can be deleted)
You will see a confirmation box, read this and then select Yes if you are happy to proceed.
Filtering
You can filter skill assignments to drill-down and display only the assignments you are currently interested in seeing.
There are a number of ways you can filter skill assignments:
By status (e.g. draft, active, or archived)
By assignment type
By skill framework
By searching (using the search box)
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