Before adopting software for your practical sessions, ask it three field questions. Three yeses and it holds up. A single no and you'll pay for it mid-lesson.
Print it and drop it into your requirements brief.
Teachers are often said to distrust technology. In reality, many simply remember a tool that was imposed on them and then failed in front of a whole class.
That wariness is a reading grid — and it's more demanding than any requirements document. Here it is, formalised, so you can use it before any purchase or trial.
How to use it
Run the three tests on every tool you consider, in real conditions (not on the sales demo). Mark each answer as a clear yes or no. No "it depends": in the classroom, "it depends" means no.
Three simple questions that decide whether a tool survives a Monday morning in front of thirty students.
The school Wi-Fi will drop one day — often on inspection day. If the tool dies with it, it's a no. A good teaching tool runs in degraded mode: the student keeps working, syncing waits for the network to come back.
A shared link, or thirty accounts to create the night before at 11 pm? The second one costs you a whole session of tech support instead of teaching. Access friction is the number one killer of classroom use: if logging in takes more than two minutes, the tool won't be reused.
A student will eventually delete, overwrite or lock something — that's healthy, that's how we learn. The real question: can you recover it in five minutes, on the spot, or do you have to open a support ticket that replies in three days? A classroom tool must forgive mistakes instantly.
These three tests say nothing about features. They say whether the tool is usable — which comes before everything else.
A checklist built from conversations with vocational logistics teachers.
If you'd like to talk it through without a sales pitch — compare approaches, challenge a choice — book 30 minutes. Just sharing, nothing else.
About this resource
Checklist written by Frédéric Kulas, founder of KLS-Concept, from conversations with vocational logistics teachers. Deliberately published without a logo in the body: usefulness comes before the brand. Applies to any vendor.
Updated: June 2026 — free to use.