Learning plans
Setting up a learning plan template
- Once a Competency framework has been set up, you can then create a learning plan template. A learning plan template defines a set of competencies which you can assign to a group of users. This is better than creating individual learning plans for many different students and means you only need update the template and the changes will appear for all students.
- Go to Site administration > Learning plans. Any existing plans are displayed here, and you can click the button 'Add new learning template' to create a new one.
Adding competencies to a learning plan template
To add competencies to a template, click its name to go to the page where you can add, edit and remove competencies. It will also show which competencies are not assigned to any course.
Once you have added competencies to the template, you can assign it to individual students, or to an entire cohort of students.
Assigning learning plans
- Learning plans may be assigned to students individually or in bulk to a (pre-made) cohort.
- Once a template has been created, click the "Edit" icon.
- To assign a learning plan to a cohort, click 'Add cohorts to sync'
- Search for and add your chosen cohort(s)
- A message will appear with the number of learning plans created.
- To assign a learning plan to an individual student, click 'Create learning plan'
- Then search for and select the student(s) you wish to make the learning plans for:
Viewing learning plans
Anyone can see their own learning plans from their profile page, accessed from the user menu:
When a student clicks the link they see which plans have been applied to them:
When a student clicks the name of a learning plan, they see the associated competencies. They can see their progress towards completion and also click 'Edit' to request a review of any competency:
- Some users (e.g. supervisors) with the tool/lp:planview capability in the user context will be able to see the learning plans of other users.
- Users with the tool/lp:planviewowndraft capability for their own user context have the ability to create a draft learning plan for themselves. A draft learning plan is only visible to users with the tool/lp:planviewdraft capability - and can be sent for approval to create an active learning plan from the draft.
- Users with tool/lp:planmanagedraft capability can approve a draft learning plan.
Evidence of prior learning
Anyone with the tool/lp:userevidencemanageown capability can provide a list of evidence of prior learning. This can be used to demonstrate proficiency for one or more competencies.
To upload evidence of prior learning, access your own learning plans page from your profile and click on the "Evidence of prior learning" link (1) On the next page, click on the "Add new evidence" button (2) and provide as much detail about the evidence as possible (including files and urls to verify the evidence). Once the evidence is listed, you can link it to one or more competencies from any of your learning plans. Then you can request that someone reviews your competency to decide if the evidence is sufficient and rate the competency.
