How Learners Earn Skills

In this article:

• Overview
• How earning a skill works
• Things to keep in mind
• FAQs
• Who can do this

Overview

Skills are earned automatically as people learn. When a learner completes a piece of learning that has skills attached, SuperPath records those skills against them — no manual step is needed. This is how a person's skills profile builds up over time as they work through content, Pathways and Events.

How earning a skill works

The key is the Skills learnt field on your learning. If an item has skills attached and a learner completes it, SuperPath adds each of those skills to the learner:

• Complete a piece of Library content that has skills attached — the learner earns those skills.
• Complete an Event that has skills attached — the learner earns those skills.
• Complete a Pathway or a step within it that leads to learning with skills attached — the learner earns those skills.
• Complete a Roadmap competency level that has skills attached — the learner earns those skills.

If a skill carries a proficiency level, the learner earns it at the level that was attached to the learning.

Things to keep in mind

• Skills are earned on completion — starting or being assigned a learning does not record the skill.
• Earning happens automatically in the background once the completion is recorded; there is no button for the learner to press.
• If a learner earns the same skill from more than one learning, SuperPath keeps a count rather than listing duplicates — so you can see how many times a skill has been reinforced.
• Attaching a skill to a learning only affects completions from that point on; it does not retroactively grant the skill to people who completed the item earlier.
• Skills synced from your HR system are earned in exactly the same way. On a person's profile they carry a plug icon to show where the skill came from, and they are recorded at the level that was attached to the learning, using your HR system's own level names.

FAQs

Does the learner have to do anything to claim a skill?
No. As soon as their completion is recorded, SuperPath adds the attached skills to their profile automatically.

What if the same skill is on several learnings I complete?
You keep the skill once, and SuperPath increases the count each time you earn it again, so it reflects how often it's been reinforced.

Can a skill be added without completing a learning?
Yes — an Owner or Admin can add a skill to a person directly from their profile. See "How to Add a Skill to a Person".

Who can do this

Earning skills happens automatically for any learner who completes learning that has skills attached — no special role is required. Deciding which skills are attached to learning is done by the people who manage that content (see "How to Attach Skills to Learning Content").

Updated on: 02/09/2026