What is skill tracking?
Skill tracking is a new beta experience designed to show the real-world skills you’ve gained through your time on Codecademy. As you work through courses, skill paths, and career paths, you’ll see progress toward the skills you’ve built.
Skill tracking also helps guide your learning by identifying skill gaps and showing how to grow toward broader capabilities. For example, if you gain a basic HTML skill, you’ll see what CSS and JavaScript skills you could learn to build an interactive website.
How do I earn skills?
You earn skills by completing content in Codecademy’s courses, skill paths, and career paths. As you make progress, you’ll unlock subskills, build up to full skills, and eventually gain entire skill sets.
What are subskills, skills, and skill sets?
Subskills are specific concepts or techniques. You earn them by completing modules.
Skills are collections of subskills that represent a meaningful learning milestone and something you might list on a resume or use in your day-to-day.
Skill sets are collections of related skills that together enable you to accomplish a broader goal, like building a web app or implementing machine learning algorithms.
Why do I see the same skill pop up across multiple skill sets and topics?
Some skills are relevant across many areas. For example, “Implement fundamental programming concepts in JavaScript” is a skill used in both front-end and back-end development, so you might see it appear in multiple skill sets. One benefit of skill tracking is that it shows how a single skill contributes to multiple larger outcomes.
How do I get credit for existing skills that I haven’t completed content for?
Today, skills are only earned through content completion. However, we’re exploring ways to let you demonstrate your existing knowledge through assessments so you can get credit for skills you already have. If that’s something you’d use, we’d love your feedback.
Can I clear my skill progress?
You can’t remove skill progress once it's earned. However, you can reset your progress in a specific course, skill path, or career path if you'd like to start over.
What can I do with the skills I gain?
Every skill has its own dedicated page for you to engage with. You can evaluate skills to test your understanding and generate custom projects to practice applying the skill. You can also explore what makes up a skill to review material or gain insights about how other skills are connected.
How do assessments work?
Assessments dynamically generate a sample of questions that will help verify your understanding of material associated to a skill. These will help reveal knowledge gaps for you to review, and validate when you have a strong grasp of the material. Scoring >70% considered passing, while <70% will reflect that skill “needs review”.
What if I have other questions or feedback?
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