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Skill Dictionary

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Skill Dictionary

You must have ion district administrator privileges to perform this task.

To manage the skills available to a user in ion, navigate your browser to "Admin > Dictionaries > Skill Dictionary."

Adding a new Skill

To add a new skill, click the "Plus" icon in the top right corner of the panel.

1. Complete the fields in the "Setup" panel that appears.

  • Name the skill
    • If you have several of the same skill, name them differently
      • Example - Letter Naming Fluency, Oral Reading Fluency, etc.
  • Select type from drop down
    • This type must be the same as the CBM and Intervention Type
  • Category
    • This item will be the major category for the selected skill
      • Example - Weekly Attendance is the Skill
      • Attendance is the category under the Type "Behavior"

2. Click to "enable" the skill.

3. Click the "Save" icon in the top right corner of the Setup panel to save.

Disable/Hide an existing Skill

You cannot delete a skill once they have been added.  You can, however, disable that skill, preventing it from popping up in a selection tool when adding skills to a student plan.

This allows the data that has been attached to historical skills to remain in the system.

  1. To disable a skill, uncheck the "enabled" box that corresponds with the skill you wish to hide.
  2. The skill "eye" icon is now red with a slash through it, indicating that it has been disabled.  This means it will not be available for selection when building Intervention Groups.
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