Find Your Digital Skills Gaps with the Future Check

Not sure how ready you or your child are for university or work? The free Future Check tells you in about a minute.

What the Future Check asks

Six quick questions, no sign-up needed to start:

1. Who is taking it - a parent or the learner.
2. The learner's grade.
3. How confident they are with Microsoft Office.
4. What matters most: university, work, better marks or everyday confidence.
5. Which skills feel weakest.
6. Their internet and device set-up.

What you get

• A future-readiness score out of 100.
• A skills breakdown showing where you are now against where you need to be.
• A six-month path, with your weakest areas marked as priorities.

It's a self-assessment to guide your next step, not a test. Your answers stay private, and you can retake it any time.

Start with your gaps, not page one.

The six courses

The path follows our Microsoft 365 programme, one course a month:

1. Microsoft Word (8 lessons): formatting, styles, tables of contents, APA and Harvard referencing, mail merge.
2. Microsoft Excel (8 lessons): formulas, IF functions, VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP, charts and PivotTables.
3. Microsoft PowerPoint (6 lessons): slide design, animations, academic presentations and Presenter View.
4. Microsoft Outlook (4 lessons): professional email, inbox organisation and calendars.
5. Microsoft Teams (4 lessons): online meetings, file collaboration and group projects.
6. Digital Foundations (4 lessons): file management, OneDrive, PDFs, shortcuts and staying safe online.

How the courses work

• Short lessons, quizzes and badges keep learners on track.
• Each course ends with a practical project, like a formal report and CV or a budget dashboard, marked by a teacher with written feedback.
• Lessons can be saved for offline use when data is tight.
• Learners who complete the programme receive a certificate.

You'll need Microsoft 365, which many learners get free through their school. The web versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint work for most exercises.

Take the first step

Take the Future Check, browse the full curriculum, then enrol when you're ready.