Skill Assignment is a powerful feature in that allows you to connect skills with learning paths, plans and events.
Integrating skills into content helps users track progress, set goals, stay motivated, and allows training creators to measure effectiveness and adapt content to evolving skill needs. Keep reading to get startedđĄ
Create a Skill
Below is a step-by-step guide on how to use Skills.
Navigate to the correct menu: Firstly, before you can create the skill, you need to find the correct menu:
(1) Under platform settings, (2) then go to capabilities (3) choose the skill menu, (4) Click create, in the top right corner.
Fill in the name, description and category
- Name: When creating a skill, start by giving it a clear and concise name that represents what it covers. This name will be visible to your users
- Description: Optionally, write a description to explain what the skill is all about.
- Category: Choose a category that your skill belongs to. For example, if your skill is about closing a store, the category could be "Store Manager".
VoilĂĄ! Then you have your first Skill, and you are ready to add it to your content.
How to add a Skill to a Learning Path, Event or Plan
To do this, open the content you want to add Skills to and click 'Settings'. On the Skills tab, you can select the Skills that you want to attach to the Learning Path, Event or Plan, set the skill level, and click 'Add'. Once you publish the path, the skill will be added.
This works well with our other feature, Capability Frameworks (INSERT HYPER LINK), which you can read more about here.
Setting the Skill level
This level type allows users to receive a rating of 1-5 for the Skill. When you attach the Skill to your content, you can decide what level users will receive for completing it.
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Skill points are a measure of your overall skill level, not your progress in individual learning paths. This means that if you currently have 3 skill points in communication and take a Learning Path that awards you 2 points in communication, you will still retain 3 skill points in communication.
Customize Level Names and Descriptions
If you'd like to reflect your company's language or expectations more closely, you can rename and describe each level (1â5) by selecting 'Customize levels' in the top right corner of the Skills tab:
You can use skills levels to point towards capability frameworks, which acts as a development system for users to understand what is expected of them in a role đ§
If you are looking for clear recommendations on how to implement it, check out this article: Skills Assignment: Best Practices.
Award a Skill Based on Previous Completions
If you add a Skill to an existing Learning Path or standalone Event that users have already completed, you can award the Skill based on their previous completions. This means users do not need to complete the same learning again to receive the Skill.
When adding the Skill, enable Automatically issue this Skill based on previous full completion
Save your changes.
The platform will check eligible users' previous full completions and automatically award the Skill. The Skill's issue date will be the date of the user's most recent full completion.
Example:
If a user completed the learning on 1 March 2025 and the Skill is added in August 2026, the Skill will be issued with an issue date of 1 March 2025.
Good to know
Removing a skill from your learning path will not affect your users. They will still have the skill. You have to delete the Skill entirely to remove it from your users.
If Automatically issue this Skill based on previous full completion is not enabled, previous completions will not award the newly added Skill.