Competency Frameworks and Learning Plan

The Faculty of Creative Industries Fine Art and Photography implemented a competency framework for NQ Photography in Moodle and looked at the possibility of porting this across to Canvas to ensure future proofing the development. 

Using the key critical competencies as set by the SQA this year, a competency framework was setup to allow lecturers and learners to track progress and to ensure evidence was meeting the Key course competencies. 

Competencies framework can be attached to activities on Moodle and tracked. This allows you to set up a Learning plan template in administration mode that can attach competencies from any framework and can be used across courses to track key skills, outcomes or competencies for example: Core Skills, Meta skills, learning outcomes etc... 

Individualised learning plans can allow learners to upload evidence of any prior learning. The student can see their learning plans in their profile in Moodle. This can be set up to be automated when students pass a course assignment or quiz across any Moodle course. 

Competency frameworks can be used in Canvas – this can be attached to mastery paths, hopefully lessons learned we will be able to set up competency frameworks in new VLE. 

Below are a few images of the Competencies and Learning Plan set up and in use on an individual profile.