Skills - Give a User permission to create and manage Skills

In this article, we'll show how to give a User permission to create and manage Skills With this permission granted, a User will have access to all Skills functionality in Learn admin, including

• Create and manage the Skills library
• Tag lessons with skills (manually and using AI)
• Enable the AI skills features
• Create Skills profiles
• Configure skills levels and targets for skills
• Add skills directly to a user

Note: this process is effective from 14th July 2025. 

Watch this short video, and follow the steps below:

Steps to give a User permission to create and manage Skills

1. Browse to the Manage Users section:

2. Find the User you want to edit 

3. For the selected User, select Actions:

4. Select Edit 

5. Scroll to the bottom of the profile page to access all optional settings.Toggle Manage Skills to 'On':

Discover more about Skills

Need quick answers? Check out the FAQ articles - they're packed with common questions and quick answers:

• Create and manage skills FAQ
• Tag Lessons with skills FAQ
• Map skills to people FAQ
• Skill levels FAQ

If you're ready to dive deeper into Skills, visit The Academy and check out the Skills Readiness Journey ebook to learn how to make Skills work for your organisation. Also in The Academy:

• Scaling Skills: From quick wins to future-ready workforce
• Skills: Basics, buy-in, and getting started
• Skills: playbooks to get you started

Don't have your Academy account yet? Contact your Customer Experience Manager or the Support Team to sign up today.