Exabis Competence Grid enables competency-based work within Moodle. The modules involved have been developed throughout the past years and address different issues in the learning process starting from ePortfolio work through the association of artifacts with competencies and self-reflection mechanisms to generating formative verbalized assessments of a student’s learning progress. Two apps have been developed to simplify this process using web-services from Moodle: diggr+ and Dakora – both available in GooglePlay-store and iTunes.

Competence grids are a way of structuring topic- or subject-based content for learning processes. The matrix form allows working with a taxonomy structure that relates to a level of difficulty in competence fields given that therefore can be used as an instrument of individualization.

This allows for a structured visualization and guidance of development steps taken by a student during a learning process.

The exabis-series combines competence grid work individualization, ePortfolio-work and extensive reporting. This means that teachers can provide a competency-based structure with associated material and tasks but also allows students to add learning artifacts individually to this structure in a constructivist learning setting. The progress of a student is displayed in the reports.

Together with the Institute of School Development in Baden Württemberg this series has been pulled together to one pedagogical idea focusing on autonomous learners and formative and permanent assessments with feedback.

The module exabis competence grid can be used within Moodle. It is an enhanced addendum to the new competence-based structure in Moodle with an interface to it. 

For working with competence grids in an easier interface the app Dakora has been  developed. If a Moodle-installation is pre-configured, teachers and students can work with the app on tablets using rubrics and saving the data to Moodle.