Add a Unit of Competency to a Scheduled Unit

Overview

The Unit Competency Edit menu in Paradigm will give you the option to add a unit competency code to your scheduled units for government reporting (AVETMISS) purposes. This knowledge article will provide a workflow on how you can add and change competencies for scheduled units.

Add | Edit Unit Competency Required Fields

Field name	Brief Overview
Competency Id	The unique Id code given to nationally accredited training packages or units of Competency
Competency Name	The unique name given to nationally accredited training packages or units of Competency
Field of Education	A 6 digit code which uniquely identifies the discipline to which a unit of study is classified by the Higher Education Provider/VET provider. These are taken from the HEIMS help website Appendix E (Please note: Any leading zeros are required for a complete code)
Nationally Agreed Hours:	Value that nominally represents anticipated hours of supervised training for a program or subject
Type Flag	Module Competency

Workflow

1. Search for the Scheduled Unit where you want to add the competency.

2. With the Scheduled Unit loaded, choose Units > Unit Details > Unit Competency Edit menus on the side.

3. Enter any combination of Competency Id, Competency Name, and Field of Education code (Paradigm requires at least one search criteria.)

4. Click the SEARCH UNIT button. This will return a list of all the competency codes that match your searched criteria.

searching for the Unit Competency

NOTE:

If you can’t find the competency code in the system, you have the option to add it by clicking the ADD COMPETENCY button, just below the search button. Refer to the table above for a description of each field, or refer to this government website for the list of codes: Australian Standard Classification of Education (ASCED), 2001 (Field of Education)

5. Click the hyperlink of the competency record that you want to add, and change the details as required.

6. Click the SAVE UNIT button to add the competency code to the scheduled unit.

filling out the Unit Competency required fields