 Hello everyone. My name is Guillermo. I come from Humana in Belgium and I'll be showing you something that we've been working on with some of our partners. It's my first time here at Moot and it's very exciting to be joining you. I've been discussing a lot with multiple members of of the audience and a topic that has come out a lot are competencies. I wanted to see just to understand by a show of hands who here uses the competency feature in Moodle. Okay. And who thinks it's a bit complicated and would like to use it more maybe. Okay, perfect. So maybe this is the right crowd for this. So I will take you through some of our journey that we used for this project. So I'll be talking about Flatsix Labs which is an incubation acceleration program generally located in the Middle East. So our main objective with the platform was to create something that offers the knowledge acquisition, strategic development and business innovation of the different participants. So just to take you through some of these this journey, entrepreneurs from all over the world join the platform and they get to nurture their business ideas whether they come by themselves and they register as a standalone user or whether they come with a startup already built. They can register on the platform as a group and go through the entire process as a group. So just to explain how we address this objective, the main goal was to create an entrepreneurial framework that will be the backbone of the course creation, evaluation, assessment and how we basically progress and make decisions to enrich the courses later on. So because of this, the standard framework that we created includes 160 competencies and this is let's say the skeleton without much meat. Now we have as I mentioned the user journey, they can do this either by doing it startup or individuals. I already covered this and an important part of this journey is that throughout their participation in the system the learners can always opt in for a coaching session with a mentor. So there are a group of mentors that are not coaches or trainers inside the courses but that are a third party let's say in the user journey and the way that we integrate them was using competencies as well and learner files that I will cover a bit later. Okay so as you can see this is just a small screenshot of the platform. So once you log in you're able to select your incubation or your growth support. That depends on which status of your startup you have at the beginning of the process. So if you already have a decided idea you know you can always apply for growth support because you have already a business model etc or if you want to start from the incubation sector you can also do this. Okay this is also just to cover some of the locations for the project. We have these eight countries are the main target but of course users from all over the world are also welcome in this project. Okay now we can start on how we actually implemented this. So as I explained we have first the explorer path which counts of all 160 competencies. So this is for the learners that say okay I'm interested but I have absolutely no knowledge of entrepreneurial frameworks of business models, lean canvas design, nothing. So we have one track that based on a pre-test that we do at the beginning of the program we can assess to which path the users are most likely to benefit from. Then we have the navigator path which is for people who already have some knowledge but would like to perfect it and the captain. The captain only encompasses the more advanced and metacognitive skills for the business knowledge. So here based on the placement test learners are distributed across these programs and for the case of the groups that come with a startup already they don't get sorted as a startup. So it could be that the founder is assigned to the captain program but another team member is assigned to the explorer program that's also possible because these assessments are individual. Okay and how we are tackling these 160 competencies because it's a lot to do this. In this case I brought some a screenshot I put the English interface but the competencies are of course in Arabic. So for this we have created an action list that includes all the 160 competencies. Here you can see we have for example each one of these is a card for one of the learning outcomes. So we have created different plans have the cards in the desired order. So these don't come from a course one then course two course three. There is a very detailed journey that the learners can follow and not only do they see the competency and their progress in it. So here we can see we have some competent and some not yet competent. We also show the course that is assigned to this competency and the activity. So that way we can jump directly to the activity from this action list so they don't have to go look for these in order to progress through their programs and some of them are quite large. Okay and then based on the previous one this is what I wanted to illustrate that for example in this case we have five different courses just to explain. One is the starting point. We have also entrepreneurial mindset. We have pillars of entrepreneurial success, marketing and people and culture. So these are the main courses that we have but the different learning journeys doesn't mean that they need to take course one, course two, course three. They get to select a specific flow so it could be that you need to do activity one of course one and then jump to the third course. That way we make sure that the flow is ideal and every course has its own teacher that can get to edit etc. That way there is no differences in sharing parts of the course between different teachers. So this is how we create very complex journeys and because the initial skeleton is already created we can make more than three different paths in the future. We are looking now I will explain at a dashboard so now because of this we have created a real-time dashboard that as the learners and the startups go through the different activities they can see their completion in real time on their Moodle dashboard that way they know okay one to go I have 159 to go you know and that kind of keeps the ball rolling and keeps the eye on the goal which is the overall program to be taken in six months let's say. So because of this we wanted to create a larger framework as I mentioned in the beginning this is just the skeleton but there is already interest in scaling this framework to include 650 competencies now that we know the key components we can enlarge it without risking it being too messy in the end. Okay so now we see that everyone has their own journey assigned to the different paths and I will explain how we use the learner file which is to include the mentors as well so as I mentioned the mentors are not a part of the standard dynamic of a Moodle course so they are not the teachers they don't grade their assignments they just have a one-to-one session with the learners or their startups as a group and then they give feedback on their business ideas to nurture what they are already cooking or if they have already some roadblocks they can also help them solve this. The way that we are incorporating this is that the mentors can give direct comments on the learner's file that is tied to their specific journey so when it comes to evaluating the success of the platform we will have all this information the activity completion of all the courses we will have the course grades any certificates that they have acquired but also the qualitative observations of the mentors which is also a metric for success in this project. Okay and this is just a summary of all the different settings and features of Moodle that we have used to to achieve this so for example we have integrations with platforms like HubSpot in the beginning to create a more complex registration phase we have the live dashboards as I mentioned to showcase and to keep the eye on the goal for every learner since the project is meant to be taking a long time we have the restricted access of course based on the country or the level that the learner has achieved they get different access to different content of course badges are also a very important component alongside every competency there are badges and there are also meta badges that are meant to be milestones for the learner's progress then we have our specific theme of course we have worked on customizations to make it look like it is a cohesive platform despite all of the external components that we have added as I mentioned the competencies are one of the core elements and the learner profiles and groups of course for the integration and also for the progress as a startup within the project itself okay I think this is all for me I was wondering if anyone has any questions hi hello thank you for the presentation my question is about the competence framework that you have used and I was wondering whether these 160 competencies that you were commenting they are grouped into higher groups right so that you can zoom out and zoom in in the reporting and how have you done it if you have yes exactly so indeed this was a conjoint effort with the program team so in this case we have grouped them as I mentioned in these different categories but even within these so we have the course level categories then we have the activity level but each activity also has different levels of different types of for example behavioral competency cognitive competency and if there is any kind of practical and demonstrable aspect this is what is also assessed by the mentors so there is these these different levels anyone else hi thank you very much this was very interesting I was wondering if you're using learning plans at all together with the competency framework is this like the way the the learner sees it yeah maybe you can yes indeed so as you see now what we are doing is creating different learning plans to report at different levels so I think both questions kind of inform one another because as a learner we wanted to give the focus on the actionable points so anything that the learner sees is because there is an activity or a course assigned to it you know they should not be able to see the meta level competencies because these are granted based on the completion of these but we have also learning plans that are meant to focus on the courses so for example learners can also see one out of five when it comes to the courses so they can basically inform themselves or also a behavioral module only or a cognitive module only this allows us to be quite flexible when creating these dashboards okay thank you