Identify Technology Skills Gaps and Build Stronger EdTech Teams

Educational institutions are increasingly reliant on technology to deliver engaging learning experiences, manage student data, and assess outcomes effectively. But are your staff equipped with the digital skills they need to succeed?

This Educational Technology Staff Competency Assessment helps schools, colleges, training providers, and educational organisations evaluate their team's proficiency across critical educational technology platforms—from learning management systems (LMS) to digital teaching tools, student information systems, and online assessment software.

Why Skills Gap Analysis Matters in Education

Understanding where your staff excel and where they need support is the foundation of effective professional development. This competency assessment template allows you to:

• Identify specific training needs across different EdTech platforms and tools
• Benchmark current skill levels to measure progress over time
• Tailor professional development programs to address real gaps
• Improve technology adoption and reduce frustration among educators
• Ensure compliance with institutional technology standards
• Support new staff onboarding with targeted training paths

Built for Educational Teams

Whether you're assessing teachers, instructional designers, IT support staff, or administrative personnel, this template captures competency across the tools that matter most in modern educational environments. Questions cover practical skills like creating assignments in an LMS, analyzing student data, troubleshooting common issues, and integrating digital tools into instructional design.

The assessment is designed to be non-intimidating and self-reported, encouraging honest reflection that leads to meaningful professional growth rather than punitive evaluation.

Streamline Assessment and Action with Paperform

This template is built in Paperform, giving you the flexibility to customize questions, add your institution's branding, and route results to the right people automatically. Conditional logic ensures staff only answer questions relevant to the platforms your institution actually uses, keeping the assessment focused and efficient.

Once submissions come in, you can use AI Insights to quickly identify common skills gaps across your team, generate summary reports for administrators, and prioritize training investments based on real data.

Want to turn assessment results into action? Connect this form to Stepper (stepper.io) to automatically enroll staff in targeted training programs, notify managers of identified gaps, update HR systems, or trigger personalized learning pathways—all without manual data entry.

Trusted by Educational Institutions

Paperform is trusted by schools, universities, and training organizations worldwide to create professional, on-brand forms that work seamlessly across devices. With SOC 2 Type II compliance and GDPR adherence, you can confidently collect sensitive staff data while meeting institutional privacy standards.

Start identifying skills gaps today and build a more confident, capable educational technology team.