Updating student skills/levels in mass requires a user permission in Tools > Manage Users & Permissions. This user permission is in the Student section of the permissions and is called Skills Mass Update.
Students > Skills Mass Update offers four different options to add / update a group of students' skills:
- add a new skill to students working on a current skill
- add a new skill to students without a current skill
- complete a current skill (by entering the date attained on the current skill)
- promote to a new skill (by entering the date attained on the current skill and adding the new skill).
Note: This will only search for students with Current Skills without a Date Attained. Therefore, it won't find completed skills (skills with a date attained). Use Skills Search in the Student menu to find students with completed skills.
Groups of students can be defined by the following criteria:
- Location
- Current Skill/Level
- Category 1 OR Class (choose one, not both)
- Category 2 OR Class (choose one, not both)
Add a New Skill to students working on a current skill/level
When students are working on a current skill/level (a skill without a date attained) and are starting a new skill/level, select the following criteria:
- Current Skill/Level
- New Skill/Level
- Clear the Date Attained leaving it blank
Add a New Skill to students without a current skill/level
When students do NOT have a current skill/level and are starting a new skill/level, select the following criteria:
- Current Skill/Level > No Current Skill/Level = Yes
- New Skill/Level
- Clear the Date Attained leaving it blank
Complete a Current Skill/Level
When students have completed a current skill/level, select the following criteria:
- Current Skill/Level
- Date Attained
- New Skill/Level should be blank
Promote to a New Skill/Level
When students have completed a current skill/level and are starting a new skill/level, select the following criteria:
- Current Skill/Level
- Date Attained
- New Skill/Level
Click Submit to mass update. After the update is complete, a list of student updated skills is displayed.