This article gives you information on new skills and FAQs for the skills development dashboards.
In October 2019, Coursera team launched the Skill Development Dashboards (SDDs), which provided an unprecedented view of skills tracking—the ability to measure actual skills developed to specific proficiency levels. Since then the Coursera team has been improving the way skills are tagged, measured, and represented.
The latest version update to the Skill Development Dashboards involves the introduction of new skills in communication, marketing, finance, HR, technology principles, technology tools, math, and statistics. You will be able to do the following:
- Measure skill development across business, technology, and data domains with 66 new skills areas for a total of 101 trackable skills
- Continue to understand the impact of technical upskilling programs through the introduction of specific skills and tool tracking in technology and data science areas, from Computer Science, Security Engineering, and DevOps to Python, AWS, SQL, and HTML/CSS
- Capture organization-wide learning trends with a skill summary page that includes views of skill proficiency distribution and time to mastery
- Analyze specific skill metrics, including what content develops what skills, through our new Skill Breakdown dashboard
- Report on the ROI of soft skill programs with tracking enabled for Leadership, Strategy and Operations, Business Psychology, Communication, and more
The introduction of these trackable skills pave the way for additional skill-first products, including SkillSets & Academies as well as diagnostics and more granular reporting for program management.
Check out new skills and FAQs for the Skill Development Dashboards.
New trackable skills
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Technology Principles |
Mathematics and Statistics |
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FAQs
Q. What are Skill Development Dashboards?
Skill Development Dashboards are the analytics suite that help our customers see skills tracked to specific proficiency levels.
Q. What is the Coursera Skills Graph?
When new content is uploaded onto Coursera, that content is tagged with the skills it teaches. The content is scored based on learner performance, and job relevancy inferred by mapping to external sources that contain job requirements information. All of these data relationships are captured in the Coursera Skills Graph, which links content, learner, and job data.
Q. How does Coursera define proficiency levels?
Learners are classified into four levels: Conversant, Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced based on their performance on in-course assessments on the Coursera platform as follows:
- All new learners are initially classified as Conversant.
- Intermediate level indicates the ability to apply basic concepts on the job; learners can typically reach the intermediate level by completing assessments in one or two courses.
- Advanced level indicates mastery of the material and ability to both teach others and identify novel applications of skills.
Note: Learners typically move from intermediate to advanced after completing assessments across several intermediate-difficulty courses. New learners with pre-existing knowledge who begin with advanced content progress more quickly.
Q. What are assessments and how do they relate to skill tracking?
Assessments on Coursera have varying difficulty levels and forms: Multiple choice quizzes, programming assignments, peer-reviewed projects, and essays. Coursera measures the skill proficiency of employees using their performance on in-course assessments.
Q. What is the difference between Conversant vs. Beginner levels? How do learners move from level to level?
A learner's level is determined by the difficulty of the content they are taking. For Conversant to Beginner, Coursera looked at the learner’s level when they are able to pass assessments in introductory content. While the exact content varies, the way to interpret the Conversant level is a learner who has only just started learning a skill vs. Beginner who would be a learner who has already taken several assessments in a particular skill area and can speak to the basics of that skill.
To move to a more advanced level, learners need to take and pass graded assessments in courses of higher difficulty. For example, an Intermediate level learner will likely have taken 1-2 intermediate level courses.