Bloomz - School communication & organization

Bloomz is the award-winning app that is free and helps teachers save time in all parent communications, while also fostering a supportive classroom community.

Key Features for Teachers:

- Consolidate all communications and coordination with parents.

- Securely share photos, classroom updates, and reach parents instantly through messaging.

- Coordinate events such as Parent-Teacher Conferences and volunteer sign-ups.

- Post class updates and share pictures, with visibility on viewers.

- Manage events, calendars, and set reminders easily.

- Schedule Parent-Teacher Conferences quickly.

- Easily sign up volunteers.

- Message one or multiple parents without revealing personal contact information.

- Send alerts notifications for urgent matters via phone and email in a single click.

- Invite parents using email or a class code for added privacy.

Key Features for Parents:

- Sign up for free and receive SMS/TEXT notifications.

- Choose between push notifications or email alerts and adjust their frequency.

- Read posts in their preferred language with one-click translations available in 80 languages.

- Communicate with other parents for play dates, carpooling, and more.

Awards Received by Bloomz:

- New Education Product of 2016 – EdTech Digest

- 2015 Awards of Excellence – Tech & Learning

- The National Parenting Center Seal of Approval

- Top 20 Most Promising K12 Technology – CIO Review

- People’s Choice Award – Stevie Awards

FAQ

How to print behavior reports?

On Bloomz teachers are able to print out behavior reports for a specific child and as a class as a whole. First, click on the name of the class on the left hand menu. After the class page appears, click Updates on the top menu, then click Interactions below the top menu, finally click Options on the right hand side. 

After clicking on Options a menu should pop up. Then click the Reports icon. 

After clicking Reports, a list of all the students in the class will show up. If you want to print a behavior report for all the students in the class click Options then click Print. 

However, if you want to print out a behavior report for a specific child, click on the Name of the Child, and on the top right hand side on the menu, click Options and click Print Interactions. 

I deleted lot of photos but still I am unable to upload any? It says Media limits reached, why?

Media limits are applied at the account level and not the Class level or group level. Hence by deleting the class will not provide you more storage space. The system counts the number of media items you uploaded. Hence to be able to upload more you will have to delete the media items from the right place. 

Please delete media to stay within the 125 item limit. Here are the steps to delete -

- Click on <Show For All Groups > in the left menu

- Click on the Media tab,

- Click Albums

- Click "Media Added by You" album

- Select enough items in the "Media Added By You" album and remove

Parent is not seeing the parent teacher conference invite. How to troubleshoot?

If the parent is invited to the conference, he should be seeing it in the 

* Sign ups tab (All groups / class page)

* Notification center (bell icon) on the top right

* He will also see a Post in the Home feed. 

If he is not seeing it anywhere, then he is not invited. The teacher needs to check her conference schedule and see if that parent is invited or not. If not, she needs to invite him/her. 

To invite the parent to the conference that is already created: 

* Click on the conference

* Click Options

* Click Invite More People

* Click the parent 

* Click Next

* Click Send.