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title: "Assign Skills to an Audience"
slug: "assigning-skills-to-an-audience"
updated: 2026-11-04T15:50:17Z
published: 2026-11-04T15:50:17Z
canonical: "docs.thrivelearning.com/assigning-skills-to-an-audience"
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> ## Documentation Index
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# Assign Skills to an Audience

**Audience-based skill assignment** lets you assign skills – along with current target levels – directly to a manual audience. Skills assigned this way appear automatically on every learner's profile within that audience.

> [!NOTE]
> Note:
> 
> Audience-based skill assignment is currently available for manual audiences only. Smart Audiences are not supported. For more information about audience types, see [Audiences](/v1/docs/audiences).

## Who Can Assign Skills to an Audience

The following roles can assign skills to an audience:

- Super Admins
- Learning Admins
- Audience Managers with the **Add/remove members** permission under **Audience Manager**

![Audience Manager permissions list with Add/remove members selected and other access options unchecked.](https://cdn.document360.io/3a0609fb-d96c-4ce1-aabe-d9338fb1e858/Images/Documentation/image(982).png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-05T16%3A54%3A05Z&se=2026-11-05T17%3A54%3A05Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=0pEZWMdV41FcsgLacMc9WRQd7%2BHydGD6w1RKRRPhCEo%3D)

> [!NOTE]
> Note:
> 
> See [Structure Admin Permissions](/v1/docs/structure-admin-permissions-breakdown) for the full list of available permissions and how to grant them.

## Assign Skills to an Audience

1. In the Thrive menu, go to **Manage** > **Structures & Audiences**.
2. Search for and select the audience you want to assign skills to.
3. Click the **Skills** tab.
4. Click **+ Add skill**. The **Add skill** modal opens.

![A dialog box for adding skills with search and action buttons displayed.](https://cdn.document360.io/3a0609fb-d96c-4ce1-aabe-d9338fb1e858/Images/Documentation/image(820).png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-05T16%3A54%3A05Z&se=2026-11-05T17%3A54%3A05Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=0pEZWMdV41FcsgLacMc9WRQd7%2BHydGD6w1RKRRPhCEo%3D)
5. In the **Your skills** search field, type to search for a skill from your organisation's skill library.
6. Select one or more skills from the results. The skill(s) appear below.

![Interface for adding skills with current and target level selection options.](https://cdn.document360.io/3a0609fb-d96c-4ce1-aabe-d9338fb1e858/Images/Documentation/image(821).png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-05T16%3A54%3A05Z&se=2026-11-05T17%3A54%3A05Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=0pEZWMdV41FcsgLacMc9WRQd7%2BHydGD6w1RKRRPhCEo%3D)
7. Use the **Select skill level** dropdowns to set the **Current level** and the **Target level** for the skill. These correspond to the levels set up during configuration (for example, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, or 1, 2, 3).
8. Click **Add skill** to confirm.

The skill now appears on the **Skills** tab for that audience, showing the skill name and assigned level. It will be added to the profile of every learner currently in the audience, and any members added to the audience in the future.

### Edit or Remove an Assigned Skill

To edit or remove a skill from an audience, go to the **Skills** tab and click **...** next to the skill you want to change.

To edit the target level:

1. Click **Edit skill**.
2. In the **Select skill level** dropdown, choose a new target level.
3. Click **Save**.

To remove a skill:

1. Click **Remove skill**.
2. Click **Remove skill** to confirm.

> [!WARNING]
> Important:
> 
> Learners in the audience will lose the skill from their profile. You can reassign the skill to the audience at any time.

When a skill is removed from an audience, learners regain full control over that skill on their profile.

Super Admins can also remove a skill from an individual learner's profile even if it was assigned through an audience.

## How Assigned Skills Behave

Once a skill is assigned to an audience, the following rules apply:

- Assigned skills appear automatically on each learner's profile.
- Learners can’t remove an audience-assigned skill from their profile unless they or the skill are removed from the audience.
- Learners can’t adjust the current or target level of a skill assigned through an audience, unless they or the skill are removed from the audience.
- If the platform is configured to allow learners to adjust their own target levels, learners can increase – but not lower – the target level of an audience-assigned skill.
- Behaviour for adjusting current levels is unchanged from standard platform configuration.
- If a learner belongs to multiple audiences that assign the same skill, Thrive applies the highest current and target levels automatically.
- The order in which skills and audience members are added does not matter – learners receive the skill regardless.

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