Are schools requiring teachers to learn too many websites or platforms?

And how does this impact the moral of the teachers?

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Edtech is constantly changing and each year amazing new innovations come up to impact most aspects of the school day (organizational purposes, grading, instant feedback, communication, discipline, attendance, quizzes, gamification, etc.). But do we really have to try out new sites/software each year? It seems much of the time these website endorsements and/or trials are made by very few people in the school building without the input of any other faculty.

How many sites are too many sites?

I understand that changes do need to happen sometimes or contracts end but looking at my current school situation I had to become familiar with 5 separate websites (one for logging discipline, one for logging attendance, one for assigning homework, one for communication, and one for scheduling a substitute teacher). This does not even count the site that HR uses, the four sites (TinkerCAD, codeHS, 3d printing platform, and laser cutter platform) that I had to learn for my current lesson planning, or the gamification site I tried last school year (Class Craft).

So yes, some of that was initiated by me and I caused some of that work. But comparing this…