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Personal tasks are personal tasks that the user or their manager/administrator sets for themselves (e.g., read a book, give a presentation, learn how to work with a new program).

Adding a personal task by the Administrator

To add a Personal Task to a user's Development plan the Administrator needs to:

• go to the Development - Development Plans menu;
• find the user in the table and open their Development Plans;

• select the Development Plan to which the personal task will be added, and click “Review” button;

• click the Add button;

• add Personal task to the user's Personal Plan

(1) - select the type of task Personal task;
(2) - add a Title;
(3) - add task content - using the WYSIWYG editor you can insert images, videos, links, change color and font size into the text;
(4) - add Task points - this fields are mandatory to fill;
(5) - attach a file if necessary - users can`t delete files attached by tutor or administrator;
(6) - select a task block (find more in Tasks blocks);
(7) - select a task type (find more in Creating types for personal tasks);
(8) - add Completion threshold (default is 0);
(9) - specify the cost of training (default 0);
(10) - specify identification tags;
(11) - specify the Deadline;
(12) - indicate Evaluation method - self-assessment or curator evaluation (find more in Checking personal tasks by the curator );
(13) - button Save.

The "Deadline" block - settings of task execution time limit. There are three settings available:

• unlimited - default setting, no time limit on tasks;
• ... days since assignment - relative time of passage (N days since assignment) - Available only if the Personal Task is created within a task set for a development plan (more details: Task sets for development plans)
• completion date - limiting the task to a specific date.

The deadline of their tasks is displayed on the main page of the user's PDP:

The user is sent a reminder about approaching deadlines according to the template Deadline of personal development plan tasks ends.

Sending such notifications is controlled by the “Tasks Reminder” setting in the Learning - Tasks menu.(More details Tasks Reminder).

Adding a personal task by the user

To add a personal task, the user needs to:

• In the Development Plan (menu Learning- My Tasks - Filter: My Development Plans → select the desired Development Plan or menu Development - My development plan - select the desired Development Plan), click the Add button.

• fill in all the required fields to create the task;

(1) - select the type of task Personal task (only the Personal task type is available for users and it is selected by default);
(2) - add a Title;
(3) - select the required type of your task from the list;
(4) - select a task block from the list;
(5) - add a Description;
(6) - add Task content - using the WYSIWYG editor, you can insert images, videos, links, change the color and size of fonts into the text;
(7) - add a plan (subtasks) to a personal task (when passing, it is displayed as a checklist and after marking the completion of the subtask, it will be crossed out);
(8) - add a Completion threshold (0% by default);
(9) - attach a file if necessary;
(10) - set the "Deadline";
(11) - specify the "Evaluation method";
(12) - a button for saving.

• save

The task has been added to the Personal plan!

If in the Evaluation method block you have selected Curator evaluation, their name will be displayed on this task card.

The content of the task is displayed on the Own task view page

(1) - administrator's task
(2) - user task - can be edited and deleted