Skill assignments allow you to assign skills (from your existing skill frameworks) to users or groups of users (e.g. audiences, organisations etc.) and manage those assignments.
Before you create any skill assignments you will first need to ensure you have created some skills on your site.
Follow these steps to create skill assignments:
Go to Quick-access menu > Skill assignments.
Select the Create assignments button.
Choose one or more skills to assign and then select the Assign button.
From the Users to assign dropdown menu select which types of users to add, then select the group or individual users.
Select Save changes then click the Create assignments button.
You will be presented with a confirmation message, where you can decide whether to activate the new assignments or not.
Finally, select Yes.
Users must have the totara/competency:manage_assignments and moodle/user:viewdetails capabilities to view the Skill assignments page.
When assigning skills by position or organisation users require the totara/hierarchy:viewposition or totara/hierarchy:vieworganisation respectively.
To assign skills to audiences users will need either the moodle/cohort:view or moodle/cohort:manage capability. Only system-level audiences can be assigned skills (not audiences within categories).
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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