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Learning goals

Learning goals represent the key skills and competencies your school chooses to track. They help teachers assess student growth in a consistent way across classes and grade levels.

What can I do on this page?

Use this page to set up and manage your school-wide Learning goals (Skills):

Add or import skills:

Click + Add to begin building your skills dataset and choose one of two options:

Create a row to add each skill manually:

Enter Code and Title (both are mandatory).

Use the Graded column to decide whether the skill should be graded.

Tag Grade levels so skills are visible for the correct grades; if no grade levels are tagged, the skill will not appear to teachers when creating tasks or portfolio posts.

Add a Description if needed.

Use the + icon to add more rows.

Use the arrow icons to adjust the hierarchy and nest sub-skills under broader categories (up to five levels).

Bulk upload using a template:

Download the template, add skill details, and upload the completed file.

Edit skills:

Use Edit to edit skills directly in the table.

You can update any field in place, including Code, Title, Grade levels, Description, check whether a skill is graded, and adjust the skill hierarchy, using the arrow icons.

Bulk update using a template:

Download the template, add or edit skill details, and upload the completed file.

Control availability:

Use Save changes as draft to keep edits in progress.

Use Publish changes to make skills available to teachers.

Manage skill status:

Use the Archived column to make a skill inactive for new tagging.

Use the trash icon to delete skills that have not been tagged

Bulk actions:

Select multiple skills to bulk delete or bulk update grade levels.

Use grid tools for faster editing: move with the arrow keys, press Enter/Return to edit and save a cell, use Ctrl/Cmd + Z to undo, Ctrl/Cmd + C and Ctrl/Cmd + V or the fill handle to copy values across cells.

Filter and customize your view:

Use the filter to narrow your list by Grade levels or Status.

Use column settings to show, hide, or reorder table columns.

Things to keep in mind

Learning goals (skills) must be published before teachers can tag or evaluate them.

Tagging grade levels ensures that the skill is visible to teachers.

Graded vs. non-graded determines whether teachers can rate a skill. If a skill is not graded, teachers cannot add observations or ratings for it.

Deleted skills cannot be recovered; archived skills stay visible where previously used.

A skill can be deleted only if it has never been tagged anywhere.

Bulk upload is the fastest way to set up or update large skill sets.

To learn more about configuring learning goals and managing student evaluations, check out

this article⁠

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