Logging accommodations and SDI goals in ten seconds a day
The documentation problem in special education is not that teachers do not want to record things. It is that the recording takes ninety seconds, the lesson is happening, and ninety seconds from now there will be a new thing. Anything that takes more than a few taps does not get logged, and then the meeting arrives and you reconstruct a term from memory. Versed Teach is built around the ten-second version.
Accommodations: a tick sheet, not a form
Each student has a short list of accommodations, chosen from the usual presets (extra time, breaks, a reader, a scribe, preferential seating, a quiet space, and so on) or typed in. The class Accommodations tab is one row per student for today, with one chip per accommodation. Tap "All provided" and the row is done. Tap a chip to cycle it between provided, not provided and absent. That is the entire daily log, and for a class of eight it takes less time than reading this paragraph.
Switch to the week view when you want to see a pattern, and export the log as a CSV when someone asks for evidence that the extra time was actually given, which is a question that arrives at the worst moments and now has an answer.
SDI goals: a measure, then data points
A goal in Teach has a baseline, a target, a target date and a measure. The measure decides what the capture row looks like:
- Trials: two buttons, "+ correct" and "+ tried", then Save. Eight out of ten becomes a data point with two taps per trial.
- Count: "+ 1" and Save.
- Minutes: chips for the common lengths and a number box.
- Rating: five buttons, saved on the tap.
- Yes or no: two buttons, saved on the tap.
The buttons are large enough for a phone held in one hand at the back of a room. Service minutes go in the same way, one entry per day, and merge if you add to them twice.
The chart draws the sentence for you
Once a goal has a few points, Teach fits a line through them, reads it out at the target date, and says one of four things: met, on track, behind, or not enough data yet. There is a small chart with the baseline and target marked, and the last five points listed underneath as text so a screen reader gets the same information. The point is not the chart. The point is that "is this goal on track?" is answered before you have to think about it, on every goal, every day.
If you do not want to write goals from scratch, there is a bank of 59 written across reading, writing, maths, behaviour, communication, social, motor and organisation, each with a measure and a sensible baseline and target. The square brackets are yours to fill in; nothing saves until you press Save.
The meeting
On the student page, "For a meeting" prints the last 30 or 90 days as one document: profile and marks, the accommodation log, each goal with its data and the progress sentence, the behaviour log, parent contacts, service minutes and notes, with page numbers. It is built from the live record at the moment you press the button. If a parent needs it before the meeting, a share link lasts 7 or 30 days and can be revoked from the same page.
About the AI, and names
Teach can draft a progress narrative from a goal's data, turn a rough sentence into a measurable goal, suggest what to try next, or write a short parent update. Every one of those is a draft in an editable box; nothing writes itself into the record. Before the request leaves your device, every student name in the class is swapped for initials, and a parent update is written as "your child" with no initials at all. Nothing is stored on our side, only a counter, and the behaviour log's text never goes to a model at all, only counts.
What it costs
Nothing. The tracker, the tick sheet, goals, the printed record and the share links are free, and the app works offline on your phone with no account; an account only keeps the record across devices. AI drafts have a daily allowance because they cost us money per draft. Try it with the sample class, which is six invented students and a term of data, and see whether the ten seconds is true for you.