Brickfield Education Labs

Introduction

This involves awarding competencies to users individually and in bulk as necessary through the Competency Awarder report.

 

This report will list all relevant competencies, which have already been assigned to a given course, via the Course competencies page, under More > Competencies.

Award competencies

To access the “Competency Awarder” report:

  1. Go to a course.
  2. Click the Reports tab.
  3. Click the Competency Awarder link.

 

The “Competency Awarder” report page displays:

  • Filters – The Competency Awarder report filter options.
    • Award highlighting start date.
      • Competencies awarded before this date will not be highlighted.
    • Award highlighting end date.
      • Competencies awarded after this date will not be highlighted.
    • Students enrolled since.
  • Competencies – The Competency Awarder table, with the main results content.
  • Download formats – The links to download the table data.
    • CSV.
    • Excel.

 

To make any display option changes:

  • Select the relevant start and end date in the dropdowns.
  • Select the optional date to show enrolled students since that point.
  • Click on the Submit button.

 

The Competency Awarder table displays the following for each student:

  • All:
    • One top left checkbox to select ALL users for bulk competency awarding.
    • A checkbox to select any relevant user or users for bulk competency awarding.
  • First name.
  • Last name.
  • Email address.
  • Sequence of competencies assigned to the course:
    • The drop-down menu to select and award a competency grade for an individual student.
    • (This will continue for each subsequent competency assigned to the course, unless they are configured to be hidden).
  • The bulk award workflow in the bottom row:
    • The drop-down menu in the final row for selecting a competency grade to award in bulk.
    • The “Award” button in the final row to award the selected competency grade in bulk.
The Competency Awarder report with the Report filters uncollapsed, the selected dates to show data for, the links to download as csv and xlsx, and the competency table. The filters are Award highlighting start date, Award highlighting end date, and Students enrolled since. The competency table has one row per user and a final row for bulk awarding competencies. This table has one column for selecting users, four columns for user information, first name, last name, email address, and ID Number. Then a column for each course competency. No users have been awarded competencies.

Award via Report View

Through the report view, competency grades can be submitted to individual users and in bulk.

Award a competency grade to an individual user

To award a competency grade to an individual user:

  1. Select the grade from the competency grade drop-down menu in the users row.

 

Please note: the selected competency grade will be applied immediately.

Award a competency grade in bulk

To award a competency grade in bulk:

  1. If you want to select all users, click the All checkbox.
  2. If you want to select specific users only, click their checkbox(es).
  3. Select the relevant grade from the competency grade drop-down menu in the final row.
  4. Click the Award button in the final row.

Award via CSV Upload

To award competency grades in bulk via csv:

  1. Click the Competency CSV upload link.
  2. Upload a CSV file to the file area.
  3. Select the applicable CSV delimiter and Encoding options if necessary.
  4. Click the Award button and then a results table will be displayed to show the status of each grading.

 

To view a csv example for bulk uploading:

  1. Click the Competency CSV upload link.
  2. Click the Download a sample CSV file link
A CSV example with 13 rows and three columns, the first rows columns are: idnumber/email, competency, and grade. The following twelve rows each contain user info for upload to the competency awarder.