BanqO vs Progress Desk

BanqO is a web platform for creating, managing, and reviewing Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) and Transition Programs. It supports students, parents, teachers, remedial teachers, psycho-educators, and other stakeholders. Its goals directory covers learning needs for ages 4–21 and contains more than 25,000 goals. BanqO describes the goals as compliant with the Quebec Education Program and linked to Quebec Progression of Learning standards, and says it can adapt to education standards in other provinces or countries. Users can tailor goals to students, set criteria and conditions, add content, and collect goals for reuse. Team members can share plans and exchange notes by email, while the platform supports strategy assignment, progress monitoring, and student reports. Each plan can be downloaded or printed as a PDF. BanqO offers group rates for schools and school boards, as well as individual annual subscriptions covering one user and that user's students. The listed Center or Clinic Membership starts at $900 a year; the site also offers a 10-day free trial that renews into a subscription unless canceled.

Progress Desk is a case management application for special education professionals, including case managers. It creates 18 documents, such as PLAAFPs, quarterly progress reports, family summaries, prior written notices, and meeting invitations. For goal measurement, it offers 15 methods and shows the baseline, target, data points, and trend on a goal card. Its schedule brings sessions, meetings, deadlines, and class availability into one view; moving sessions recalculates make-up time and service-minute totals. Student records are stored and processed locally, and the maker says the software does not collect, access, transmit, store, or process student data through the software. The Mac app needs internet for a one-time license check, then can work offline. The iPad edition costs $59, paid once, billed one-time per iPad, and requires iPadOS 16 or later. The Mac edition costs $99, paid once, billed one-time for up to two Macs, and requires macOS 12 or later. A 14-day trial and 30-day money-back guarantee are advertised.