How to Assign Skills to Classes (without tagging to evidence)
In some cases it's helpful to assign skills directly to students in your class rather than tagging those skills to a specific assignment. Assigning a skill directly, using the blue Assign Skills button in your Classes > Project page, populates your Portfolio tab with those skills. This can be a useful way to set up your portfolio-based gradebook before launching projects.
Once projects are launched, any evidence can be pulled into these directly assigned portfolios, even if evidence was not tagged. If your school uses nested skills (we call them parent and child skills), assigning the parent skill directly provides a simple way to see all of the evidence in the child skills in one place.
Click on the blue Assign Skills button in the upper right corner of your Classes > Projects tab and then select skills from your framework in the center panel. After selecting one or more skills, click on the blue Continue button and you can choose the students who will be assigned the selected skills.
Delete Skills That Have Been Directly Assigned to a Class
In case you accidentally assigned the wrong skills, you can delete those directly-assigned Skills in your Classes > Portfolio page. If you delete a skill to which ratings and evidence have already been added, and you later reassign the skill, the rating and evidence will return.
Click on the Enable Delete checkbox in the upper right corner of your screen. You will then be able to click on cells that have been directly assigned and they will be highlighted in a blue border. If it is not a directly-assigned Skill, then it will not highlight when you attempt to click on that cell. To delete the selected skills, click on the blue Delete button. If you change your mind and don't want to delete any highlighted skills, click on the checkbox which now reads Disable delete.
If you try to delete a skill using this feature and it doesn't go away, it is because that skill was tagged as a target skill within a project. Those tagged target skills can only be removed from your Portfolio page by deleting the target skills within the project editor.
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