DACUM Live Pro

❓ Help → Start the Helper walks through the twelve steps in process order. Each step shows what to do, its status (done, in progress, optional), a facilitator tip and the tab’s own guide.

Go to this tab switches tab and points to the field or button to start with. A Helper · Step n chip stays on screen to come back, and follows the tab you are on.

Its button can be shown or hidden in Settings → Misc. The last step viewed is remembered per project.

Click ＋ New in the sidebar header to create a project. The current one is auto-saved first.

Click any card to load it. The active project is outlined in purple.

Click ✏️ to rename inline — Enter saves, Esc cancels.

Click the red ✕ to delete a project permanently, after confirmation.

Use the search box at the top of the sidebar to filter projects by name.

A project with content languages shows a 🌐 EN · AR badge: the language shown is in bold, and an amber dot means some texts are not translated yet. Click it to open Settings → Languages.

Every card also shows the project’s language (🌐 AR / EN / FR), so two copies of one project in two languages are easy to tell apart. Opening a project written in another language switches the interface to it, with a note offering Undo — or keeps the current language if you choose so in Settings → Misc.

Fill in Occupation Title and Job Title on the Chart Info tab — both are required, because every stage analyses the job within its occupation. Scope of Work is optional but recommended: every stage inherits the boundary it sets.

Click ✨ Generate Full Draft to open the generator window.

Choose how far down the chain to go — you can stop at duties and tasks, or continue all the way to training modules.

Tick the optional extras — Supporting Information is not required by any later stage, so it is safe to skip.

Read the notices about what the run will replace — they name the work already tied to the current content — then click Start Generating.

Stages complete one after another. You can press Stop at any point — everything already generated is kept. If a stage fails, everything before it is saved and you can retry from that stage.

When it finishes, open each tab and review. Each tab the draft generated carries a 🔁 Regenerate from here button for when you change something upstream; tabs filled by hand do not show it.

Click ＋ Add Duty to create a blue duty card, then type the duty title straight into it.

Click ＋ Task inside the strip to add a yellow task card under that duty.

Click the red ✕ badge on any card to delete it — Ctrl+Z brings it back.

Scroll sideways within a duty row when it holds more tasks than fit on screen.

Each task card carries 📏 n: the task’s own criteria (Task Analysis) plus the closest criteria of its competency. 📏 0, dimmed, means none yet — experts often write criteria after the chart.

Click it for a read-only window: the task’s criteria, its competency’s criteria (the closest marked, the others folded) and the learning outcomes they reach. ✏️ Write the criteria in Task Analysis or ✏️ Competency criteria take you to where they are written; ↩ Duties & Tasks in Task Analysis brings you back to the card.

📏 Criteria on the card toolbar and in the verified DACUM chart shows or hides these buttons. They are never printed.

A chart usually has 6–12 duties; a broad occupation may need about 15. A duty may be transversal — work common to many jobs, such as communicating in the workplace — while personal traits stay behaviours in Additional Info.

Before the chart is final, the panel reviews every card for clarity, redundancy and omissions — the wording and completeness of the statements, not the importance, difficulty or frequency rated later in Task Verification.

Then the panel orders the duties, and the tasks within each duty — drag the cards and the codes renumber automatically. The 📋 Verified DACUM chart button sits under the chart, opposite ＋ Add Duty.

Tick Enable Supplementary Occupational Verification.

Items written in Additional Info appear automatically, in five categories: knowledge & skills, tools, work behaviours, future trends, and other. Add your own items or categories.

Rate each item on the same 0–3 importance scale as the tasks — in a workshop, by entering how many participants chose each value.

Results are ranked by score and printed in the PDF and Word exports.

With duties and tasks complete, open Task Verification and choose Workshop (facilitated) mode.

Click 🔒 Finalise & create live voting session. This locks the duties and tasks and issues a session ID and participant link.

Share the link or display the QR code on the projector. Participants open it and rate.

Click 🔄 Refresh voting results to pull the latest votes. Means and priority indices update on the dashboard.

When the panel is done, click 🔒 Close voting to stop further submissions.

Export the results as JSON, CSV, or a verification report in PDF or Word.

Open Task Selection in the sidebar — after Task Verification. The count at the top shows how many tasks are selected.

Pick a rule — Importance ≥ x and Difficulty ≥ y (2 and 2 by default) or the top N tasks by Priority Index — and click Suggest selection. Tasks not yet rated are left as they are; Not rated yet takes you to their row in Task Verification.

Adjust the ticks by hand. A task left out can carry a reason — low priority, low importance, learned on the job, rarely performed, already mastered, or other.

Optional: tick “Is the task performed?” and enter the share of workers who perform each task. Tasks below the threshold (25% by default) are set aside; tasks marked 🆕 New are kept whatever the figure.

Changed your mind? ↶ Undo / ↪ Redo in the toolbar step through the selection while this tab is open.

Pick a task from the list. A dot shows its status: not started, in progress or completed. Completed means the Performance Steps and the Performance Criteria are filled — the other sections are optional, since not every task needs them. Hovering over the status recalls this.

Fill the sections by hand. List sections take one item per line and bullet themselves: typing in an empty section starts with •, and Enter continues the list. After 1-2-3 (numbering), Enter continues with the next number; Enter on a line holding only its marker ends the list. Each list — including the four Basic Skills lists — has its own numbering and bullets buttons.

For knowledge, skills, worker behaviours and tools, pick from Additional Info copies lines you already wrote there. The copies are independent: editing them never changes the source.

Or click ✨ Generate with AI and tick the sections you want. Sections that already have content start unticked and are replaced only if you tick them.

Need a section the list does not have — Quality Requirements, for example? Click ➕ Add section under the last card. It is added to every task of the project; rename it with ✏️ or remove it with ✕ Delete section. Added sections go into the Word and PDF exports and to Module Builder.

From a task card’s 📏, ✏️ Write the criteria in Task Analysis opens the task here with the cursor in Performance Criteria. ↩ Duties & Tasks, first among that section’s buttons, returns to the card.

Module Builder lists the tasks of a module that have no analysis yet; each one opens this tab on that task. A bar ↩ Back to Module Builder then sends the module again and returns to it.

The header row holds the levels. Click a level name to rename it, × to remove it, ＋ Level to add one — from one to six levels.

Each shaded row is a category: rename it in place; ＋ Competency adds a row under it; ✕ removes it.

Type each competency in its cell and tick the levels at which it is required.

Restore default levels and Reset All Selections sit in the card’s top bar; Add Category is below the table.

The Performance Criteria (Source) list holds every criterion — from the clusters and from Task Analysis — under sticky competency headings. Hide used criteria shows only those not yet in an outcome.

Tick criteria. A bar at the bottom of the screen offers Create LO or Create 1 LO from n criteria.

Type the statement straight into each outcome card — it saves automatically. Enter moves to the next outcome, Use criterion text fills an empty one, and Next empty jumps to the next outcome without a statement.

Or use the AI card: choose a pattern and generate from the ticked criteria — or, with none ticked, from every unused one.

Select outcomes from the available list and click ✨ Create new module, then name it.

Or use ⚡ One module per outcome — instant, offline, and a reasonable starting skeleton.

Or use 🤖 AI group & sequence — it groups related outcomes, names and orders the modules, and shows its reasoning under each title. Options: Keep existing modules and Suggest a level for each module.

On each module card set the Level, Track / code prefix, Code and Short name. The code is automatic — track + level + position, e.g. CMT 1-1 — until you type your own; ↺ returns to the automatic code.

Build in Module Builder on a module sends it — with its outcomes, criteria, source tasks and Task Analysis — to Module Builder.

Choose the module at the top; ◀ ▶ move between modules. The percentage shows how complete it is.

Programme settings — programme name and learners per group — are saved once for the whole project. They also hold the programme requirements (trainee entry qualifications, trainer qualifications, trainers per group) and the course information for the CBC (qualification level, course description, course outcomes).

1 · Module header. Title, level, track and code come from Module Mapping. Add the purpose statement, the pre-requisite modules and the credits. Under the pre-requisites, Basic skills required on entry: Suggest from Task Analysis collects the basic skills of the module’s tasks, grouped by type, and nothing is added until you choose.

The Time table computes the hours: credits × hours per credit, split into theory, practical, formative assessment, industry practice and summative assessment by percentages — shared by all modules or for this module only. The parts always add up.

2 · Learning outcomes. For each outcome: context, methodology, discussion, demonstration, practice, self-directed learning, formative assessment statements (Suggest from criteria) and methods. Hours are shared automatically in proportion to the criteria; type a value to set your own.

3 · Module resources. Tools, equipment, PPE and materials (Suggest from Task Analysis), recommended resources and facilities.

Click Export this module (Word), or use Standard → Module Curriculum — CUR in the toolbar. Tick Include programme requirements to add them to the module table.

Standard → CBC lists the modules, each with its own Download: one Word file per module — cover, module of instruction, and each learning outcome on a new page with its assessment criteria, contents, conditions, methodologies and assessment methods — then the resources and instructors. Include the course design adds the programme summary; Download the whole programme puts all modules in one file.

Open ⚙️ Settings from the sidebar — it sits just above Help — and stay on its Export tab.

Pick a heading colour and a table header colour from nine presets. Both apply to the PDF and the Word files — and the header colour also to the Skills Level Matrix on screen.

Adjust the font size if you want the document larger or smaller — a relative shift from −2 to +4 pt, which moves every size together and keeps the existing heading hierarchy. This one applies to Word only.

Press 💾 Save. Nothing reaches a document until you do — Cancel discards whatever you were trying out.

Click ⬆ Import in the toolbar and select one or several .json files.

Each file becomes a separate project in the sidebar. The last one imported becomes active.

The project name comes from the file name, with the language tag and the date and time suffix stripped — so Welding_EN_2026-03-14_22-45.json becomes a project called Welding.

In DACUM Lite, click Export Project to save the project as a .json file.

Here, click ⬆ Import and choose that file. It becomes a new project in the sidebar, named after the occupation when Lite still called it Untitled Project.

Chart Info (with the workshop dates, format and venue, the logos and the workshop team), the duties and tasks in their order, and the Additional Info sections all come across. Carry on from the Task Verification tab.