Exploring competencies
Competencies describe the learner's proficiency or level of understanding in certain subject-related skills. Moodle has a powerful competency management system that fully supports modeling and awarding competencies. In this section, we will cover the basics of competency management. The main components and issuing mechanisms of competencies have been depicted in the following diagram:
A competency has certain properties, such as a name, scale (for instance, not competent, competent with supervision, and competent), a competency framework it belongs to, and a parent to model competency hierarchies. A competency is usually tied to course and/or activity completions. Competencies can be part of a Learning Plan (template) so that they can be assigned to users or cohorts. Moodle supports different awarding mechanisms, namely Automatic upon completion, following a review process after providing...