Understanding Skills
Skills Are Tagged to Evidence
In LiFT, Projects are designed to help you develop a series of Skills. Specific Skills are tagged to individual Evidence assignments. You can see a list of the tagged Skills in the Evidence block.
Click on a Skill and the center panel will display a definition of the Skill and each of the Skill levels that your Evidence will be rated against, if provided by your school.
Ask Your Teacher About Skills
To easily communicate with your teachers about Skills, you can send a message and tag that message to the Skill too.
- Click on Comments to open a chat-space connected to the Evidence
- Open the General drop down menu above the chat box and you can select one of the tagged Skills
- Write your question of comment in the box
- Click the Send button
This will attach your communication to the Evidence, and to your Skill Portfolio for the tagged Skill.
Evidence is Rated Against the Tagged Skills
After you've submitted your Evidence, you teacher may rate it against each Skill tagged to it.
Any ratings appear as checks in a box. You can hover over the boxes to see what that box means. You or your teacher may have added the evidence to your Skill Portfolios. If so, your status bar will change to "In Portfolio".
How to See Your Skill Portfolios
All the Skill Portfolios in your class are available when you first click on a Class, grouped by category.
Click on a Category to expand the view to see all the Skills in that Category.
Your teacher's ratings of a Skill in this Class can be found in the second column. If you have entered any self-ratings in this Class, they will appear in the third column. The number in the far right column indicates how many Evidences have accumulated in this Skill Portfolio. You can click on the number or eyeball icon to see a list of all the Evidence tagged to that Skill with their rating.
Your Combined Portfolio
Click on Combined Portfolio in your left sidebar to open it. It's very similar to the Class Portfolios (above), except that your Combined Portfolio displays Skills from all Classes, over all time (potentially multiple terms, multiple years).
Again, you can expand a Category and then see your teacher's ratings, your self-ratings if any, plus a count of Evidence in the Skill Portfolio that you can click on to see a list of all Evidence with ratings in the center panel. There are a number of filters above to see specific things.
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