You're Invited to be an Award Editor

Congratulations. You've been invited to be an Award Editor in Calibrate. At this moment, you probably have three questions:

1. What is an Award?
2. What is an Award Editor?
3. What does an Award Editor do?

What is an Award?

In Calibrate, an Award represents the skills acquired by students when obtaining a specific credential or degree. An Award is comprised of Courses and targets a set of validated Job Profiles. Awards allow educators to surface skill gaps and align curriculum with the needs of employers by comparing skills included in the associated Courses with those found in the targeted Job Profiles. 

What is a Course?

A Course in Calibrate typically represents an actual course in the curriculum and can optionally include learning outcomes. Courses allow educators to organize the skills in an Award, defining which Course or Courses, and even which learning outcomes, will address a particular skill. Calibrate has four types of skills: 

1. Work Activities (hard skills) - Describe how units of time are organized on the job. These are things you actually do on the job (e.g., analyzing reports or depositing checks).
2. Knowledge Domains - Principles, bodies of content, and facts generally applied within academic domains. These are areas of knowledge that someone needs to know in order to do the job (e.g., chemistry or mathematics).
3. Soft Skills - Specific behaviors, interpersonal skills, character or personality traits, attitudes, and the social and emotional intelligence needed to succeed. These are the skills that make you effective at the job (e.g., non-verbal communication, listening, negotiating).
4. Tools & Technologies - Categories and specific examples of machines, equipment, software, and technologies used on the job (e.g., Stethoscopes, Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop).

What is a Job Profile?

A Job Profile is a collection of demonstrable, observable and measurable skills and characteristics that represents the skills required by employers for a specific job or occupation. Job Profiles are comprised of the same skill types as Awards and Courses.

What is an Award Editor?

At a very high level, the Award alignment process looks like this:

If you've been invited to be an Award Editor, that means a Content Manager has created the Award and they want to collaborate with you to resolve the skill gaps between the Target Job Profiles and the Courses in the Award. This process of resolving the skill gaps is called Alignment.

What does an Award Editor do?

As an Award Editor, your primary job is to resolve skill gaps between the skills in the Target Job Profiles and the skills in the associated Courses by assigning unassigned skills to Courses. Unassigned skills are skills required by Target Job Profiles but not yet taught in any Courses. Additionally, you'll review assigned skills, which are skills that are in one or more Courses and may also required by one or more Target Job Profiles.

Once you’re logged into Calibrate, you’ll navigate to locate the Award. Next, you'll work on aligning the Award. Here's a list of things you may do as an Award Editor:

1. Assign unassigned skills to Courses
2. Assign unassigned skills to Course Outcomes within those Courses
3. Omit unassigned skills
4. Review the status of assigned skills
5. Remove assigned skills which are not needed by any Job Profile in the Award  (called additional skills)

To see the detailed, step-by-step instructions for managing skills in an Award, go to the Manage Skills in an Award User Guide.

Ready to get started?

Here’s a quick checklist you can use as an Award Editor:

• Login to Calibrate
• Navigate to the Award
• Assign unassigned skills to Courses
• Assign unassigned  skills to Course Outcomes
• Omit unassigned skills
• Review the status of assigned skills
• Remove additional skills