From training needs analysis to post-training quizzes, deliver the right feedback at the right moment – automatically and based on your expertise.
Pointerpro turns every assessment into meaningful guidance for each learner:
Trusted by 1.500 coaches, consultants and HR professionals who use Pointerpro worldwide
Training assessment is a structured method for measuring what learners know, what they need to develop, and how their skills evolve throughout a learning program. It can be used before training to diagnose skill gaps, after training to validate learning outcomes, or across a program to track progress over time.
The same approach is often described using other terms, such as training needs assessments, skills gap analyses, competency assessments, knowledge tests, learning evaluations, pre- and post-assessments, and certification quizzes.
Identify skill gaps and learning priorities before a program begins. Standardize how you evaluate learners across teams, roles, or client organizations.
Perfect for:
L&D teams, training companies, coaches, HR departments
Identify and target training needs
Check whether training content is understood and retained.
Validate learning outcomes after workshops, courses, or coaching sessions.
Perfect for:
Corporate trainers, educational institutions, coaching programs
Start measuring learning outcomes
We use Pointerpro for all types of surveys and assessments across our global business and employees love its ease of use and flexible reporting.
Director at Alere
Track skill development over time using repeatable assessments.
Compare baseline and final results to demonstrate progress and impact.
Perfect for:
L&D managers, consultants, performance and enablement teams
Automate program reports
Present learners with realistic situations they might encounter on the job and ask how they would respond.
This helps you assess not just what people know, but how they apply that knowledge in practice.
Use the results to determine training readiness and learning paths.
Perfect for:
HR teams, enablement programs, training companies
Create scenario-based assessments
Award certificates automatically when learners meet scoring criteria.
Add credibility and structure to your training or coaching offer.
Perfect for:
Training companies, professional coaches, academies, HR certification paths
Create training certification reports
Piscari digitized and scaled their training needs analysis for negotiation skills.
They built a structured assessment that measures negotiation competencies and automatically generates tailored reports - replacing a manual, questionnaire-based process.
By leveraging scoring logic and automated reporting, Piscari turned real-world data into a scalable digital offering that strengthens their framework and delivers deeper client insight.
The outcome? A repeatable assessment tool that deepens client relationships, provides personalized insights at scale, and even powered a research white paper featured in Forbes.
Start by translating your training goals into smart, structured questions.
Whether you're assessing baseline skills, knowledge retention, or real-world application,
Pointerpro helps you design questionnaires that feel more like learning tools than tests.
Result:
A professional and purposeful digital interaction with your respondent.
Behind most training programs is a competency model. Pointerpro lets you encode it.
Assign scores to answers, weigh what matters most, and group items under skills, behaviors, or modules.
Then let Pointerpro calculate learner profiles, baseline levels, and post-training improvements automatically.
Result:
Reliable, competency-based scoring you can use to personalize learning paths or evaluate program impact.
Once scoring is in place, you decide how learners should be guided based on their results.
- Low readiness? Recommend fundamentals.
- Strong knowledge but weak application? Suggest scenario practice.
- High performers? Unlock advanced modules or certification.
Each outcome triggers tailored feedback, resource suggestions, and concrete recommendations - all mapped to your methodology.
Result:
Every learner receives clear, motivating guidance that feels like 1-on-1 coaching.
Turn assessment results into professional PDF risk reports, including risk summaries, heatmaps, charts, explanations, and tailored action plans.
All report content is governed by your own rules and thresholds. Once configured, each completed assessment generates its own targeted risk report - ready to act on.
Result:
Audit-ready risk reporting at scale, with zero manual follow-up.
Distribute assessments before or after workshops, during coaching tracks, or across entire client teams.
Dashboards let you monitor individual and group progress, compare cohorts, or visually track pre- and post-training improvement.
Use the same engine across multiple programs or tailor versions for specific clients.
Result:
One scalable assessment system that grows with your training offering and provides the data you need to demonstrate impact.
It’s a great advantage to have formulas and the possibility for a really thorough analysis. There are hundreds of formulas, but the customer only sees the easy-to-read report. If you’re looking for something like that, it’s really nice to work with Pointerpro.
Country Manager Netherlands at Better Minds at Work
What it does:
Map each question or question group to specific skills or learning objectives while randomizing question orders, apply weighting where it matters, and automatically calculate mastery levels for every learner.
Why it matters:
Training decisions rely on more than right-or-wrong answers. Competency scoring shows how well someone can perform, learn, or apply a skill - giving trainers and coaches a real foundation for personalized development.
What it does:
Turn scores into tailored feedback paths by triggering customized content: advice, next steps, and suggested resources - per skill, per domain, or per profile.
Why it matters:
This is what turns assessment results into meaningful direction. The same questions lead to different conclusions and recommendations, based entirely on the respondent’s situation.
What it's about:
Turns individual results into group insights. Generate group reports, compare individuals vs. teams, benchmark skills across departments or client organizations, and even schedule recurring PDF summaries for stakeholders.
Why it matters:
Training impact isn’t just individual - it’s collective. Aggregate reports give L&D teams, coaches, and training providers a crystal-clear view of how a group is progressing, where gaps cluster, and which competencies need reinforcement. It turns your assessment into a decision-making tool, not a data dump.
What it does:
Bundle multiple assessments under one URL. From baseline assessments to training module checkers, all the way to a final evaluation.
Why it matters:
It suits the reality of blended learning, coaching tracks, academies, or multi-session corporate programs. You track progress automatically and even show or use results in workshops.
What it does:
Automatically sends personalized emails based on scores, outcomes, or profiles - from feedback and resources to certifications and next steps.
Why it matters:
Timely, relevant follow-up reinforces learning and removes manual work, while ensuring every learner gets guidance that fits their results.
From the first training assessment question to the final personalized training report, everything carries your branding and design.
With full white-labeling, learners experience your training as one cohesive, professional journey - not a patchwork of tools.
From the first question to the final report. With Pointerpro’s white-labeling option you get your brand in every interaction.
Not all training happens behind a desk. With Pointerpro’s offline mode, you can run assessments during in-person workshop events, classroom sessions, or on-site training - even in locations with limited or no connectivity.
Learners complete the assessment as usual. Once a connection is restored, responses automatically sync and trigger scoring, reports, and follow-up - just like an online assessment.
Perfect for board meetings, client updates, or any time you need a presentation-ready version of your insights.
Pointerpro is easy to use and comes with out-of-the-box modern designs to get you started. I like how easy it is to customize the look and feel.
Director of Marketing at Medisolv
To help you build high-impact training assessments and personalized pre- or post-training report templates, one of our product trainers will guide you through your setup in dedicated 1-on-1 onboarding sessions.
Once you’re live, our global support team is always available to help you optimize scoring, reporting, or delivery - wherever your training programs run.
Given the limitless capabilities of the Pointerpro platform, organizations envision audacious assessment projects to catalyze their business.
Whatever resources you may lack to manage the scope of your imagination, we can handle for you.
You think it, we’ll build it.
NOBODY has a product that is exactly like this. I looked for days, and from what I can tell, this checks the box. In fact, it's what I would have created if I had been designing a program for myself.
CEO of Business Training Works, Inc.
We’re ISO 27001:2022 certified!
ISO 27001 certification assures our customers of a steadfast commitment to maintaining the highest standards of information security and safeguarding their valuable data.
This certification underscores Pointerpro’s dedication to meeting global benchmarks and instilling confidence and trust in the reliability and security of its services.
Most quiz tools focus on grading answers. With Pointerpro, you focus on explaining results.
You can apply advanced scoring logic, generate personalized learner reports, and deliver tailored guidance based on strengths and gaps - turning assessments into a learning and coaching experience rather than a pass/fail test.
Absolutely. You can adapt question logic and flows, scoring, feedback, and reports based on role, experience level, department, or any other attribute.
This allows you to run one assessment framework while still delivering highly relevant feedback to each learner.
Yes. Pointerpro integrates with tools like LMSs, CRMs, and data platforms via Zapier, Make, webhooks, or its REST API.
This allows you to sync assessment results, trigger follow-ups, or embed assessments into existing learning or HR workflows.
Yes. You can define scoring thresholds, outcomes, and automated reporting to support certifications or proof-of-completion assessments.
Certificates, reports, and follow-up communication can all be automated based on learner results.
Yes. Learners can receive instant on-screen feedback, downloadable personalized reports, or follow-up emails with guidance and next steps - all triggered automatically based on their results
Pointerpro is a software platform to create your own online assessments, automatically generate personalized reports and manage the distribution of assessments.
Your assessment challenges and objectives are unique to you. So is our pricing. Request your quote and find how we can help you.
Yes, we are.
This depends on the plan. You can pay monthly for the Professional and the Enterprise plan.
You’re in safe hands. We’re ISO 27001:2022 certified!
ISO 27001 certification assures our customers of a steadfast commitment to maintaining the highest standards of information security and safeguarding their valuable data. This certification underscores Pointerpro’s dedication to meeting global benchmarks and instilling confidence and trust in the reliability and security of its services.
Pointerpro’s servers are hosted at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Ireland (EU/EEA) (more info here) and in Australia for Australian users, the world’s largest and most reliable cloud infrastructure provider. This ensures compliance with EU data protection regulations and guarantees high standards of security and reliability. All our servers are set up redundantly to prevent loss of data or unavailability of any kind. Our SLA with AWS ensures any issue be taken up with the highest priority. Our specialized infrastructure and operations provider keeps a watchful eye to make sure everything is done following the highest standards and operating smoothly. For more info check Pointerpro’s security statement.
We have over 50 languages supported. You can create each assessment and report in one or more languages. You can check the full supported languages list here.
We offer two approaches: Do-it-yourself (DIY) and done-for-you (DFY).
DIY is a hands-on approach to building everything by yourself. We will ensure you learn how to use the key features to build a great assessment and report. Likewise, we’ll support you until you are ready to go live and launch the assessment to the respondents
DFY is the quickest way to get there. Our team will do the heavy lifting here. You will simply share with us the existing version of the assessment and pdf report and we will translate them into Pointerpro. Once we are done, we will teach you how to make changes to it, teach you how to distribute the assessment for you to master your desired workflow. You can reach out to support@pointerpro.com
It’s best to get started right away but our team is there to help you to feel comfortable when using the tool based on your own needs and timings. We also have a clear onboarding process in place.
We offer a do-it-yourself solution to build your own assessments, ranging from personality to skills to cybersecurity, and far beyond. The aim of our platform is to help you leverage your own expertise. That means, we don’t provide any content for your assessments.
Our onboarding process is designed to help you get up and running smoothly - whether you're starting from scratch or already have something in mind! The Onboarding Team will guide you through the key steps to create and launch your assessments and reports with confidence. After the Onboarding, our support team is available whenever you need extra help or have additional questions.
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