Documentation
Help getting started with SPEDup
Guides for the mobile app and the admin dashboard. SPEDup is for any teacher or staff member who documents behavior, in any classroom. If you are brand new, work through Getting Started in order. It takes about fifteen minutes.
Where do you want to start?
I am new to SPEDup
Create your account, join your school, and write your first report. Any teacher can use SPEDup, not just special education staff.
Start hereI am setting up a school
Add staff and students, assign classrooms, and get your building documenting.
Set up a schoolI need data for a meeting
Generate a data summary, read the charts, and export a PDF for a conference, a referral, or an IEP file.
Build a summaryGetting started
Everything you need on day one. Work through these in order and you will be set up in about fifteen minutes.
- What SPEDup doesWho SPEDup is for, how the mobile app and the admin dashboard fit together, and which one you should be using.
- Create your accountSigning in with ClassLink, or creating an account with an email address and password.
- Join your schoolConnecting your account to your building, on either app, plus what administrators need to set up first.
- Your first weekA short checklist to work through before you rely on SPEDup day to day.
The mobile app
Where documentation happens. Teachers spend almost all of their SPEDup time here.
- Getting aroundThe four tabs, the home screen, search, and the support button.
- Writing an ABC reportThe six step wizard, start and end times, validation, and submitting.
- Writing an intervention reportThe quick single screen form, and how to link it to an ABC report.
- Drafts and working offlineAuto save, resuming a draft, and what happens when you have no signal.
- Requesting admin supportSetting up your response team, sending an alert, and responding to one.
- Students, classrooms, and staffAdding and editing records, making assignments, and deactivating.
- Student analytics and PDFsReading the charts, and sharing a student behavior report.
- SettingsProfile, security, response team, theme, notifications, and switching schools.
The admin dashboard
Where review, analysis, and record keeping happen. Runs in a web browser.
- Getting aroundSidebar, breadcrumbs, the school year selector, tables, and search.
- Your dashboardWhat each role sees on the home screen, and what every number means.
- People and rolesAdding staff, changing roles, transfers, and deactivating.
- Students and classroomsRosters, assignments, transfers, and the student profile.
- Data summariesGenerating a summary, and reading every tab of it.
- Charts and data qualityPhase changes, blackout dates, trend lines, and what to trust.
- Exporting and printingSingle reports, data summaries with charts, and bulk ABC export.
- SettingsTheme, default school year, and notifications.
Reference
The details, for when you need to look something up rather than learn it.
- Roles and permissionsWho can do what, on each app.
- ABC report field referenceEvery field on the ABC report, what it captures, and whether it is required.
- The weekly strategy emailWhat arrives on Friday, where it comes from, and how to turn it off.
- Text messages and notificationsWhat SPEDup sends, when, and how to stop it.
- TroubleshootingThe problems people actually run into.
Still stuck?
Email support@spedupeducation.com. Tell us your name, your school, and what you were doing when the problem happened. A screenshot helps more than anything else.
Signed in already? The same details are on the Help page in the dashboard sidebar.