5 – Unit Standards

Unit standards specify what a candidate for assessment needs to know, do, and understand.

In the SELMA system, unit standards shows up as a particular type of curriculum component that you can create and interact with in the system.

You can access Unit Standards by clicking on ‘Unit Standards’ under the curriculum tab:

To create a Unit Standard, under the curriculum tab, click in ‘New Components’:

Once the ‘Add New Component’ form is open:

Select ‘Unit Standard’ in the ‘Component Type:

Then fill out the rest of the form as completely as possible.

As mentioned in the section Map Components, for managing curriculum items, you can create different nesting hierarchies between components. This means that you can also include Unit Standards as part of this nesting process when setting up the hierarchy for your programme/qualification.

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