Assessing and following skills
Prerequisites: one active skill, plus either attached content or a planned milestone. Rights required: no back-office right lets you assess. Create skills and Update skills, in the Skill edition block, govern the framework; Skills Statistics governs reading. Assessing comes from the Coach and Team Leader roles, in a group's Roles tab. See Assigning roles in a group.
Assessing and following skills
Prerequisites: one active skill, plus either attached content or a planned milestone. Rights required: no back-office right lets you assess. Create skills and Update skills, in the Skill edition block, govern the framework; Skills Statistics governs reading. Assessing comes from the Coach and Team Leader roles, in a group’s Roles tab. See Assigning roles in a group.
The team leader’s screen is covered in Handing field assessment to the manager; this page covers the rest: the routes by which a level changes, what survives of each, and where it is read back.
The three routes that move a level
| Route | Who triggers it | Where | The level that moves |
|---|---|---|---|
| A piece of content finished | Nobody, it is automatic | No screen | Theoretical |
| A milestone assessed | A coach | The app, Coaching space | Coach |
| A direct entry | A team leader | The app, My team tab | Manager |
There is no fourth. The three sit side by side on the same skill and never overwrite one another.
The theoretical level
Content management → Skills, open a skill, Theoretical points tab. Points build up whenever a learner completes a capsule or a tip carrying that skill, and this tab sets how many points each level requires.
Content that carries a skill without an explicit point value counts for one point on that skill. Set a higher value on the content itself when a long capsule should weigh more than a short tip.
⚠️ Changing those thresholds does not recompute levels already awarded. The new rule applies only to points added afterwards.
The level a coach assigns
The coach opens the milestone in the app and starts Evaluate Milestone. The Milestone evaluation panel states the instruction: “To evaluate, assign a level to each skill.” Each row opens on Assign a level, with a slider and a reminder of the Learner’s level.
⚠️ A coach cannot lower a level. The panel states the rule directly: You can assign the current level or a higher one. The assessment is also final, Once confirmed, milestone validation cannot be changed, so check each row before confirming. This level, and only this one, awards a skill-based certificate.
Following over time
Every milestone assessment is dated and kept. It is the only one of the three routes with a history; the other two write a current value and nothing else, with no trace of the previous one. The history is read in Statistics → Learners / Groups → Learners: open a learner, the Statistics tab, then Skills. One curve per skill, one point per assessed milestone, plus a spreadsheet export. With no assessed milestone the curve stays empty, even if the theoretical level has moved.
What the learner sees
On their profile, Progress tab, the My skills section: up to three rows per skill, Theoretical, Manager and Coach, tagged by rank and name, “2 | Competent” for instance. See Mastery levels.
⚠️ A row at notch 0 is not displayed: a learner assessed at the bottom of the scale sees exactly what a learner never assessed sees.
What it does not do
No self-assessment. The learner reads their levels and enters none.
No assessment from the back-office. An administrator builds the framework, sets the thresholds and reads the results: they place nobody. It all happens in the app.
No reset. No expiry, no recertification, no way to delete a past assessment.
The trap
⚠️ The three averages in the statistics share no denominator.
- Average level counts only learners with at least one completed milestone, and keeps the highest notch each of them reached;
- Average theoretical level counts only those who finished at least one attached piece of content;
- Average manager level counts only those a team leader actually scored.
Three adjacent columns, three different populations. An Average level of 4 over three coached learners does not compare with an Average theoretical level of 1.8 over six hundred: read Number of learners coached first. Average level is also rounded to a whole number and the other two to one decimal, so a gap smaller than one notch may be nothing but rounding.
💡 Redoing content already finished adds its points again. Points accumulate on the skill without being deduplicated per capsule or tip. On a skill with little content attached, that alone is enough to push the theoretical level up with nothing new learned.
Going further
- Handing field assessment to the manager: the team leader’s screen.
- Coaching: the milestone and the evidence expected.
- Attaching skills to content: with no attachment, the theoretical level never moves.
- Skills and coaches: the report where the three averages sit side by side.