Getting started
Create your Spectra IEP account, activate it, and find your way around.
What Spectra IEP does
Spectra IEP is a companion tool for special education teachers and administrators. You define each student’s IEP, record observations of the student’s progress, and create IEP reports from that data.
Spectra IEP is in an early stage, and this guide covers only the features available today. It does not try to cover every compliance requirement. Its aim is to cut the time spent on administrative work and keep the IEP process fast and teacher-friendly.
Create an account
Anyone can start a free trial. Go to spectra.edavex.com and select Try it free in the top bar. On the sign-up page, choose one of two ways to sign up:
- Google or Microsoft: select Sign up with Google or Sign up with Microsoft and sign in with your existing account.
- Email and password: enter your Full Name, an Email address you own, and a Password, then select Create Account.
Activate your account
Spectra IEP checks that your email address is yours before you can start. Right after you sign up, it sends a 6-digit activation code to that address.
- Open the email from Spectra IEP and copy the code.
- Enter it in the activation code field.
- Select Activate Account.
No email? Check your spam or junk folder, then select Please send Activation code again. If it still doesn’t arrive, use the contact Support link on the same page.
Sign in again
Your browser remembers your sign-in, so you usually go straight in. You need to sign in again after you sign out, or when you use another browser or computer. Go to spectra.edavex.com, select Login in the top bar, and use the same method and details you signed up with.
To sign out, select Sign Out at the bottom of the left sidebar.
Find your way around
After you sign in, the left sidebar takes you to each part of Spectra IEP. Your name and user type appear at the top. Select the arrow at the top of the sidebar to collapse it and make more room.
- Students
- Your students, with each student’s IEP status. Most work starts here. See Students.
- Help Center
- Opens this guide.
- Sign Out
- Signs you out of Spectra IEP on this browser.
Free trial and Team subscription
The free trial is not time-limited, and you can use all of its features for as long as you like. It is meant for trying Spectra IEP, so it has some limits compared with the Team subscription.
| Free trial | Team | |
|---|---|---|
| Time limit | None | None |
| User types | Teacher only | Teacher and other user types |
| School and district | Our test school Spectra, in our test district Spectra | Your own school and district |
| Student access | Only students you created and assigned to yourself | Your own students and students assigned to you by others |
| Secondary assignments | Not available | Several teachers can work with one student |