Your school or district may already use an IEP tool such as Goalbook, EasyIEP, or a state-provided reporting system. fastIEP is designed to work together with these tools.

Tools like Goalbook and EasyIEP take care of two parts of the IEP process—authoring and reporting—but they don’t offer teachers any tools for collecting goal progress monitoring data in real time in the classroom.

So, where does the data that is entered into these tools come from?

Without a tool like fastIEP, teachers are left on their own to come up with a system for recording progress. Many use notebooks, Post-It notes or binders. Some use spreadsheets. But none of these solutions are ideal, and all rely on teachers to do hundreds of hours of paperwork a year.

fastIEP gives teachers an easy to use tool to record goal progress data in real time, in the classroom, and generate progress reports and charts any time that are always up to date. fastIEP’s day-to-day data can then be uploaded to your IEP reporting tool to create compliant reports. This eliminates a huge manual step and ensures data is accurate and recorded in the moment, not days or weeks afterwards. Teachers can always see charts of their students’ progress that are up to date, so they can intervene quickly when students are struggling.

Yes, fastIEP is fully FERPA compliant. We are also compliant with COPPA, CIPA, HIPAA, PPRA and state regulations that are based on these federal regulations.

For full details on our compliance, please see this article in our knowledge base.

Yes! fastIEP allows teachers to provide “data entry” access to paraprofessionals, therapists, classroom assistants and other teachers so that they can all record progress data for the same students.

This is controlled on a student-by-student basis, so that a different teaching team can be defined for each individual student if necessary.

Only the primary teacher responsible for the student’s IEP can edit or change the IEP itself; other members of the team are only allowed to record data.

Yes! fastIEP supports simple goals as well as goals that consist of multiple objectives, each with their own reporting date. So, you can have an annual goal that must be met by the annual review date, but this goal can be broken down into four quarterly objectives. You measure progress against each objective and fastIEP keeps track of whether the objective was met for each quarter, and for the year.

Yes, just email us at support@fastiep.com and let us know what tool you are using. We can import IEPs from most of the common IEP tools that are in use in the United States.