Available skill achievement paths

Learning plan

This allows backward compatibility for skills previously linked to learning plans. Note that Totara Learn is required to link skills to learning plans. For a skill to be assigned to a learner in Totara Perform it must be assigned via the skill assignment tool, and not just in the learning plan. 

Manual rating

Select one or more raters (including manager, appraiser, assessor (members of selected audiences), audience member, or self) who can manually mark the proficiency level for this skill in the user's skill profile details page.

Where multiple raters are added to a single path, they will have the ability to overwrite each other’s ratings, i.e. individual ratings are recorded, but only the latest rating counts in terms of the overall achievement calculation.

Criteria-based paths

For each skill scale value you can set criteria to achieve that level using the Add criteria group button alongside that skill scale value. Once you have added a criteria-based path option to a scale value, you can click the And button underneath the added criteria path to require users to complete both criteria. Alternatively, if you click the Add criteria group button alongside that same scale value, you can add an additional path option that the user can complete instead of the other one (Or).

You can use the delete icon () to remove a criteria path. Once you delete a criteria path you can undo the deletion using the undo icon () before you click Apply changes. 

The different criteria paths are:

• Proficiency in child skills: Allows you to decide if users must complete all or some of the child skills in order to achieve a particular level of this skill

• Course completion: Other courses: This allows you to pick courses that should be completed and decide if users must complete all or some of the courses (Totara Learn required)

• Course completion: Linked courses: Decide if users must complete all or some of the courses set in the Linked courses tab (Totara Learn required)

• Assignment activation: The skill scale value is achieved as soon as the skill assignment to a user is activated (this can only be added once and cannot be combined with other criteria)

• Proficiency in other skills: Decide if the user must complete other skills (either from this framework or another framework)

Performance activity rating

This achievement path supports rating skills via a performance activity.

This feature is controlled from the performance activity, where a skill rating is provided from within a performance activity Skill review question element. This element uses the selected skill's rating scale and, on submission, passes the selected scale value to the skill.

For the rating from the performance activity to be included in the skill’s achievement calculation, a Site Administrator must add the Performance activities achievement pathway to the skill.