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Understanding competency structures

A competency structure is a hierarchy composed of three basic elements:

  • Competencies
  • Learning objectives
  • Activities

Although you can create multiple activities, learning objectives, and competencies within a competency structure, the most fundamental structure must contain at least one competency, one learning objective, and one activity.

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Understanding competency structure relationships

Parent-child relationships between competency structure elements

When you create a complete competency structure you must first create the elements that make up the structure and associate these elements together. Associated elements have a parent-child relationship. For example, if an activity is associated with a learning objective, the activity is the child and the learning objective is the parent.

You can create the following element associations:

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Publishing from Content

You can publish the following types of learning objects to an LOR from Content:

  • All course content modules and topics
  • Single or multiple modules
  • Single or multiple topics

When you choose to publish a module or course, the LOR publishes all the children of that module or course as a single package.

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Enrolling course leaders in groups

How a user that can lead courses is enrolled in groups depends on whether they have access to all groups or only select groups. Users should have access to all groups if they are responsible for mediating, grading, and working on material for the entire class. They should have access to select groups if they are only responsible for mediating, grading, or working on material for a particular group.

Best practice Add staff that are working with select groups the same way you add users.

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