Competencies and �Graduate Skills

How to track progress across �multiple Moodle courses

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Sam Taylor & Jasmin Davies-Hodge

Senior eLearning Consultants

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https://www.catalyst-eu.net/

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Scenario

You are wanting to launch a ‘graduate skills’ competency framework to all final year students to help them get ready for the world of work

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You have 10 competencies that need to be met/evidenced

You have a team of careers advisers wanting to monitor �the students’ progress

What can you do?

Option A: �Map, then weave competencies into the Curriculum, matching competencies to activities within existing modules/units (Jasmin & Sam’s preference)�

Option B: �Pull competencies into a reflective portfolio course, and create an assignment submission for each competency

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For option A to work you need �the following:

A Moodle Competency Framework

A Learning Plan Template

Dedicated Cohort for the final year students

New custom ‘Graduate Skills Manager’ role

Plus a few plugins!!!

Create your competency framework

Site administration > Competencies > Competency frameworks

1. Add a new framework
2. Give it a title and description
3. Choose your scale and set the default and proficient values�(You can create your own custom scale)

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Next, add your competencies and rules

You’re now ready to deploy your competencies 😍

Things to consider:

• All competencies must be added to a course first before they can be worked on�
• Note that students can still see competencies linked to courses without a learning plan

Option A: Weave competencies into the curriculum

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This works really well if the framework has been mapped to the whole programme of study. This way each module on the programme can be assigned a handful of competencies.

Set-up:

• Specific competencies added to the course �with ‘Outcome upon course completion’ = Do nothing�
• Specific competencies assigned to activities, �with ‘Outcome upon activity completion’ = Complete the competency

Learner view (when the activity is complete)

Option B: Pull competencies into a portfolio course

This works well depending on learner numbers, and won’t involve teaching staff having to manage the competencies linking to courses and activities.

Set-up:

• Define organisation - students per course, students per staff member�
• Add all 10 competencies to the course (do nothing) and set up a Moodle Assignment submission point for each, adding the competency to it (complete when the activity is complete)

Which is best for you?

You have your competencies, and they �are linked to courses (Option A)

What next?

�Learning Plans!!!

Create a Graduate Skills cohort

Site administration > Users > Accounts > Cohorts

• Add students manually or via CSV. ��This cohort will be used to assign the learning plan (and cohort enrollment if you go with Option B)

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Create a Graduate Skills Manager custom role

Site administration > Users > Permissions �> Define roles

• Role name: Graduate Skills Manager

�Site administration > Users > Permissions �> Assign user roles to cohort

• Assign your careers staff the new role in the cohort. This will give them access to the students’ learning plan

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Add user-context role

Create a learning plan template

Site administration > Competencies > Learning plan templates

• Create the plan template
• Select the correct framework
• Add the 10 competencies
• Enrol the graduate skills cohort

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So where’s the progress overview?

There isn’t one 😭

Some plugins that could help though:

• Learning Plan Auto-complete�With this plugin installed, all learning plans will be marked as complete when all their competencies are completed by the user.�
• Monitoring of learning plans�Such an amazing plugin!

Thank you!

Sam Taylor, FHEA, CMALT�Senior eLearning Consultant & MEC Facilitator

@samwisefox�sam.taylor@catalyst-eu.net

Jasmin Davies-Hodge�Senior eLearning Consultant

@jmdh22�jasmin.davieshodge@catalyst-eu.net

https://www.catalyst-eu.net/