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title: "Managing Professional Development Levels"
slug: "managing-professional-development-levels"
updated: 2025-05-22T21:21:55Z
published: 2025-05-22T21:21:55Z
canonical: "support.eduphoria.net/managing-professional-development-levels"
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# Managing Professional Development Levels

**Professional** **Development** **Levels** allow districts to manage staff development plans with a system for managing credits earned, including defining and awarding various levels of development. Districts can set Professional Development Levels in Strive. This feature can be turned on or off in **Workshop** **Setup**.

## **Activate Professional Development Levels**

**Step 1:** Select **Settings** from the main menu and then choose **Professional** **Learning Setup**.

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**Step 2:** On the **Professional Learning Setup** screen, expand **Workshop** **Setup** and select **General Options**.

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**Step 3:** On the **Features** tab, select **Professional Development Levels** to open the container.

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**Step 4:** If **Professional Development Levels** appear as **Disabled**, select the **Enable** **This** **Feature** button.

**Step 5:** Click the **Save** **Changes** button when ready.

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## **Configure Professional** **Development** **Levels**

Once activated, select **PD Levels** under **Workshop Setup** to configure professional development levels and credit details. Select a level **name** to modify its options, or click the **Add New Level** button to create a new PD Level.

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### **General Tab**

**Step 1:** Select the **General** tab to edit the **title**, **description**, and optional **image** for a PD Level.

**Step 2:** Click the **Save** button when ready.

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### **Credit Requirements Tab**

**Step 1:** Select the tab and enter the number of credits needed for each **Credit Item** to meet the PD Level.

**Step 2:** Select a radio button for **automatic**, **school**, or **district** to determine how credits are granted to staff.

> [!NOTE]
> **Note:** Staff members must still complete the step to [request a professional level](/v1/docs/requesting-a-professional-development-level). This setting determines the approval process after the request is made.

**Step 3:** Click the **Save** button when ready.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/d6ce927e-20b2-40ab-af8d-ea0afbbc28f7/Images/Documentation/29214816746007.png)

### **Prerequisite Levels Tab**

**Step 1:** Select any **prerequisites** to qualify staff based on credits earned over time as staff progress from one level to another.

**Step 2:** Click the **Save** button when ready.

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### **Questionnaire Tab**

**Step 1:** Create a **questionnaire** form for staff to complete when requesting to earn the PD Level. Questionnaires allow text submissions.

**Step 2:** Select the **Add** **Item**, **Edit** **Item**, or **Remove** **Item** to create the questionnaire form.

**Step 3:** Click the **Save** button when ready.

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### **Staff Tab**

**Step 1:** Staff members who have earned the selected PD Level appear in the window. Select a staff name to **assign** a level, **remove** a level, or **change** an award date.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/d6ce927e-20b2-40ab-af8d-ea0afbbc28f7/Images/Documentation/29214862885655.png)

**Step 2:** Select **Assign Level** to open the modal to search for staff members. Click the radio button to **View Staff Members** or **View Groups**.

**Step 3:** Enter a **name** or **address** and click the **magnifying glass icon** to search.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/d6ce927e-20b2-40ab-af8d-ea0afbbc28f7/Images/Documentation/29214862889239.png)

**Step 4:** Select the **name** of the staff member you want to assign to PD Level, then click the **Select** **Staff** button.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/d6ce927e-20b2-40ab-af8d-ea0afbbc28f7/Images/Documentation/29214862891159.png) ![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/d6ce927e-20b2-40ab-af8d-ea0afbbc28f7/Images/Documentation/29214862894999.png)

**Step 5:** Click the **Save** button when ready.