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# Set Up Skills in Education Cloud

Create skills to identify your staff's area of expertise, and assign them so that learners can meet the staff members who are best suited for their needs. When you set up topic templates (work types), related the same skills to the relevant work types.

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small " summary="Editions Needed"><caption>Editions Needed</caption> <colgroup><col style="width:100%"></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions with Education Cloud</td></tr></tbody></table>

See Also:

- [Create Skills in Salesforce Scheduler](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleview?id=platform.ls_create_skills.htm&type=5)
- [Assign Skills to Service Resources in Salesforce Scheduler](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleview?id=platform.ls_assign_skills.htm&type=5)
- [Create Topic Templates for Education Cloud](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_set_up_appointment_data.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Understand and manually set up all the required objects in Education Cloud for appointment scheduling.")