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School digital maturity assessment

Twelve questions about whether things are recoverable from a system rather than whether you own a module — because every school has an attendance register, and the question is whether last October’s can be found without asking a teacher.

A self-assessment, so it is only as honest as the answers. Nothing is stored or sent, and there is nothing to sign up for.

Written by Checked by Latha KumaresanLast reviewed

Maturity assessments usually ask which modules a school has bought, which tells you about the vendor rather than the school. These questions ask something narrower and more awkward: can you get the thing back out.

Questions
Twelve, across six areas
Asks
Recoverability, not ownership
Output
A band, and your weakest area
Stored
Nothing. It runs in the browser.
01

Why recoverability is the right test

Every school has attendance, marks and a fee ledger. What separates a school that can answer a parent, an auditor or a board question in a minute from one that needs a fortnight is not whether the data was captured — it is whether it can be got back out, by someone other than the person who entered it.

That is why the questions are phrased as retrieval: can you list families three instalments behind, can you find a change to a mark and who made it, could you export everything yourself.

02

The order to fix things in

Records first, always. A school whose student record is duplicated or ambiguous cannot fix fees or examinations on top of it, because both read from the same identity. Money second, because it is where the pain is felt. Governance — audit, permissions, export — third, because it is what makes the first two defensible.

The commonest expensive mistake is buying a parent app first. It is the most visible module and it depends entirely on the three below it being right.

FAQ

Questions people ask

Phrased the way they arrive, answered so each one stands on its own.

Do I have to give an email address for the result?

No. The score appears as you answer, nothing is stored, and nothing is sent anywhere. There is no gated report.

What should we fix first?

Whatever your weakest area is, unless it is not Records — the student record underpins fees and examinations, so a problem there has to be fixed before anything above it.

Is a low score a sales pitch?

The honest answer is that we sell software and a low score suggests you need some. The questions are still the right ones, and several of them — export, audit, permissions — are worth asking any vendor including us.

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Checked by the Implementations desk on 6 September 2026. Corrections go in the page, dated, rather than quietly.

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