It is possible to assign yourself to any available skills from the skill profile page. Only skills that are set as being able to self-assign will appear.

Click the Self-assign skills button in the top right of the skill profile page.
Tick the box alongside any skills you wish to assign yourself (or tick the box at the top alongside the Skill column heading to select all).
You can use the Load more button at the bottom of the page to show more skills (this button will only appear if there are more than 20 skills available).
Click Assign skills (at the top of the page) once you have selected all the skills you wish to assign to yourself.
Whilst selecting skills to assign you can click the View selected link at the top of the page to filter by only skills you have selected to assign to yourself - this is useful for reviewing your choices.

Archive self-assigned skills
Individuals are able to archive self-assigned skills from the skill details page. You will need to click the Archive this assignment button in the top right above the skill rating scale. This button is only made visible to the skill assignee if the skill has been self-assigned.

The Totara Academy has a whole course dedicated to using Skills in Totara. Here you can learn more on how to use skills, see best practice, and give it a go yourself.
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