Manage your teaching skills list
What is the skills list?
The skills list is the set of driving topics you assess in pupil Progress. Instructors can maintain their own catalogue instead of relying only on free-text lesson notes.
Review and maintain skills
- Open a pupil’s Progress screen as an instructor.
- Choose the manage-skills action in the top bar.
- Review the existing categories and skills before adding another.
- Use the create/edit controls to enter a clear skill label and its category.
- Save and return to Progress to find the skill.
- Archive a skill you no longer want to use, where that action is offered.
For example, use a clear label such as “Observation when emerging” rather than a pupil’s name. That lets the same teaching topic support assessments across pupils.
Important things to know
Custom skill labels are your own wording; they are not automatically translated into every app language. Archiving a skill preserves historical assessments rather than making past teaching disappear. Skills management is an instructor action; pupils can read assessments, not change the instructor’s catalogue.
Troubleshooting
If a skill does not appear, check the search text, category and archived status. A save failure retains the draft: reconnect and review before retrying. Avoid duplicate labels created by repeated submissions after a slow response.