Manage skill assignments

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

  1. Go to Quick-access menu > skill assignments. 

  2. 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. 

  1. Go to Quick-access menu > skill assignments. 

  2. Select the skill 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 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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