SpEd Forms, Inc. is a software company based in Jasper, MN.
SCRED, our member districts, and the vast majority of MN school districts use SpEd Forms to write and store special education and Section 504 paperwork.
SpEd Forms 2.0
SpEd Forms has been upgrading the look and feel of their website to Version 2.0. Eventually, they will phase out Version 1.0 of the website. Here's 🎥 how to upgrade to SpEd Forms 2.0 (7:48).
Log In
Open the SpEd Forms website. You can set up your school Google account to be your login.
Features and Tips
Saving Work
If you find that you're angrily waving your fist in the air, chances are, it's because you forgot to press the save button while working on an evaluation or IEP in SpEd Forms, your computer froze, and—tragically—all of your hard work was lost. In severe cases, symptoms of this affliction may also include crying and rocking back and forth in the fetal position under one's desk. Please, please remember to frequently save your work in SpEd Forms. It will not automatically save work like Google Docs does.
When you finalize a document (see below), SpEd Forms will finalize the last version of the document that you saved. For example, if you wrote a PWN with 25 sentences, clicked the 'save' button, wrote 5 more sentences, and then clicked the 'finalize' button without saving again, the finalized copy of the document would have 25 sentences, not 30.
Finalizing Documents
When writing IEPs, evaluations, PWNs, etc. in SpEd Forms, we're looking at the "working" versions of these documents rather than "finalized" copies. Think of a finalized copy as a snapshot photo of the working document at a specific point in time. It's a permanent digital copy and is available in the 'History' menu in SpEd Forms
Whenever paperwork is sent to parents and also printed and filed in a student's special education folder, it must be finalized in SpEd Forms. For example, as long as you have remembered to finalize an IEP after the annual IEP meeting, you can complete an amendment later in the school year and both versions of the document will be available for reference in the future. Finalizing documents is also important because SpEd Forms often updates their forms over the summer months, and in these instances, data from unfinalized documents is lost.