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Description:

This report lists the competencies attached to the course, and allows the instructor/course developer to add or remove competencies to the course. Students are able to view their proficiency status in competencies attached to the course. Links are provided to the (top 3?) competencies most often NOT proficient in the course. The course can be configured such that competencies are only rated within this course, or are updated to students’ learning plans. For each competency attached to the course, the path within the competency framework is given as a link, and a list of Activities attached to the Competency in the current course is displayed.

For each competency attached to the course, four options are provided to execute on course completion: Do nothing, Attach evidence, Send for review, Complete the competency.

Clicking on the competency name will take the teacher to a grading page for that competency (a variation of the Competency breakdown report.)

Intended audience:

Instructor/course developer, student

Purpose:

This report allows the instructor/course developer to add or remove competencies to the course. Students are able to view their proficiency status in competencies attached to the course.

Suggestions:

1. Do not show instructors “you are proficient” indicator. (Possibly this could be controlled by the setting at Site administration > Grades > Report settings > Grader report > Graded roles.)
2. Make it possible to select activities from the course to attach to competencies from this page. (Add a “Attach Activity” button for each Competency displayed, and go to a new report that lists all Activities in the course and allows checkbox selection to add the current Competency to those Activities, and ability to update the “Upon activity completion” setting for each Activity from the same page. Provide an “Attach and return to competencies” button on this second report.
3. Ideally it would also be possible to add new Activities to the course from this second report. Then the Competencies assigned to the course could be used for the course design process.
4. Make it more clear what “complete the competency” does in Activity and Course completion. Does it assign the default level of proficiency?

Conversion to Configurable Reports:

The following enhancements to Configurable Reports (detailed above) would be needed to convert this report:

1. Cell calculations (including ability to construct a URL and replace integers with icons – also used here to construct and format display of attached Activities)
2. URL Link to related report
3. Receive URL parameters
4. Include filter selections in report header
5. Edit cell option
6. Manually reorder report results and save new order for next execution
7. Localized text strings