# Managing Participant Skills

Want to motivate participants to keep learning and make it easy for them to track their progress?

Simply **assign skills to proficiency levels** — skills that participants can earn at each level of advancement.

When a participant acquires a new skill during a lesson, **the instructor can mark it as earned**, and the participant will immediately receive a **notification** in their Client Panel.

In addition to earned skills, the Client Panel also shows **future goals** — skills the participant can still achieve within their current proficiency level. This gives them a clear learning plan and extra motivation to keep progressing.

## How to assign skills to proficiency levels

The Skills feature is available under *Settings* → *General* → *Proficiency* levels. Click the *Skills* button next to a proficiency level to add new skills to it.

![Settings view showing proficiency levels with Skills button for adding skills to each level](/files/2OHi6mQOTduWjgtfCK7X)

## How to mark a skill as acquired

To mark a skill as acquired for a participant, go to their profile and navigate to the *Skills* section.

Click *Edit* to manage the participant's acquired skills. You can mark skills as earned or remove them.

Only skills from proficiency levels assigned to that participant's profile are shown.

![Participant profile Skills section with Edit button and list of skills that can be marked as acquired](/files/4adNHIUkOXXzkw7sCS4b)

In the **Instructor Panel**, the same feature is available in the *Participants* tab — click the *Skills* button next to any participant.

![Instructor Panel Participants tab with Skills button next to each participant](/files/PlyMHMWwlP5ygxX10Yzu)

Once you save the acquired skills, the participant will receive a notification about all their newly earned skills.

![Notification showing newly acquired skills sent to the participant](/files/1sNBAVL2WwhLq4adOQ1G)

## How participants can view their skills

In the Client Panel, participants will see a new *Skills* tab. Here they can view all their acquired skills along with the date each one was earned.

They will also find their *Future goals* — skills they can still work towards within their current proficiency levels.

![Client Panel Skills tab showing acquired skills with dates and future goals section](/files/QUr6rRLQeDzbCfnhF62D)


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