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After you create your account you will be provided with a "Demo Class"

You can use this account to practice.

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With so many cities in the world in quarantine, many schools have had to find ways to stay in contact with students, continue with their instruction and keep parents informed and even helping students at home. Remote learning is becoming the norm these days and, as students, parents and teachers adapt to this new normal, Bloomz is here to help with the process.

One feature we've seen a sizable increase in usage is our Student Portfolios. No surprise here, though. Teachers have long been using Student Portfolios to keep track of a student's work throughout the year, saving pictures of the work and sharing that work with parents. But maybe some of the least known use (at least before COVID-19) was the ability to have students sign into Bloomz and submit the work themselves. Teachers can also send assignments to students through the app, so students can then work on their own and submit the work through Bloomz back to the teacher for review, before it get's added to their portfolio.

With so many students at home, teachers have now been gravitating to this functionality to share assignments with their students and having them submit for review. With this year's introduction of our student accounts, middle and high school students have also benefited from this functionality, having more participation in the app and communication with their teachers.

We also introduced several settings in our app, to make it easy and flexible for teachers to control what happens in the virtual classroom:

Elementary, Middle and High School modes to the app, to set up classes in the different levels with predetermined settings.

Ability to control whether students can communicate with other students

Option to moderate students' submission to their portfolio

Option to allow students to comment on other students' work and portfolios

NEW! We recently introduced the option to allow parents to submit work to a student's portfolio.

To make things easier, we've put together these videos to help guide you through the process of setting up your classes and get your students going with remote learning in a few steps. Check them out:

1. For Elementary Level

In this video, Chaks Appalabattula, CEO of Bloomz, walks us through the Portfolios feature in Bloomz and how you can use it in the elementary grades to help with remote learning.

2. For Middle and High School levels

In this video, Chaks walks us through the Portfolios feature in Bloomz and how you can use it in the Middle and High School grades to help with remote learning.

3. Enable Parent Posting

In this video, Chaks walks us through the steps teachers and parents should take to post work to a student's portfolio on Bloomz.

To help schools manage their communication during the COVID-19 crisis, Bloomz has provided free access to our Premium platform to schools affected by it. We are very proud to be able to help teachers in this uncertain times communicate with students, parents and other teachers in their school communities.

We recently published an article with tips for day-to-day engagement in remote learning. Take a look!

If you are looking for more specific examples of how teachers use Student Portfolios in their classrooms, here are a few articles written by teacher Jude Miqueli with her experience and recommendations:

If these are helpful, let us know in the comments below and share with other teachers in your school or social media.

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Using Student Portfolios to Help with Remote Learning

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With so many cities in the world in quarantine, many schools have had to find ways to stay in contact with students, continue with their instruction and keep parents informed and even helping students at home. Remote learning is becoming the norm these days and, as students, parents and teachers adapt to this new normal,...

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Bloomz is now offering you the option to upgrade your experience with new features for additional convenience, control and ease of use. Read below for more details and availability.

* Cloud storage size is calculated with an average size per photo, video and document shared on Bloomz. P ortfolio items are not included in this calculation.
1. Is anything changing in Bloomz?
Nothing is changing in Bloomz the way you enjoy it today. The new Teacher Premium subscription brings new functionality to Bloomz that will give you more.
2. Why is Bloomz charging for these premium features?
Bloomz is run by a passionate team looking to provide parents with the best app to connect with their kids' world, for free, forever. To do that, we also need to find a sustainable way to build a business that will allow us to provide this valuable service for years to come, and cover the high cost of media storage and delivery (the large amounts of photo and video shared via Bloomz). By bringing premium experiences to our users, we can build the foundation for the business, while continuing to offer both educators and parents a free platform to connect, coordinate and communicate.
3. Are all features listed here available now?
All the features listed in the first box are already available. We will continue to add more capabilities to Premium all the time.
4. How do I subscribe to Bloomz Teacher Premium?
To subscribe, please follow the instructions here.
5. Can I cancel my subscription?
Yes! you can cancel within the first 15 days by emailing support@bloomz.com for a refund.

TEACHER PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION TERMS

In addition to our app Terms & Conditions, subscribers to the Bloomz Teacher Premium, agree to the following terms:

Some features may not yet be available and may be launched after your purchase.

Your subscription is effective for 1 calendar year starting with your purchase. Your account will be charged at confirmation of purchase.

Your subscription will renew automatically within 24 hours prior to the end of the current term at the then current price. We'll send you a notice email reminding you that your plan is about to renew within a reasonable period of time prior to the renewal date.

You're responsible for all applicable taxes, and we'll charge tax when required to do so.

Your Paid Account will remain in effect until it's cancelled or terminated under these Terms. If you don't pay for your Paid Account on time, we reserve the right to suspend it or reduce your plan to free space levels.

We may change the fees in effect but will give you advance notice of these changes via a message to the email address associated with your account.

You may cancel at any time by emailing support@bloomz.com. You may ask for a refund within the first 15 days as long as no content has been downloaded after payment.

Bloomz Convenience Pack: The Bloomz Convenience Pack is not a license for or purchase of any kind to the rights of the images, video or audio contained in the items downloaded. Not all content, including but not limited to pictures, audio and video, may be available for download. Bloomz does not own the rights to this content and only charges for convenient access to it. As established in our app Terms & Conditions, Bloomz assumes all rights to the content submitted to its service are owned by the person submitting it, who in turn grants a license to Bloomz to access for the sole purpose of distributing it to allowed persons. Please read our app Terms & Conditions for all details on user submission rights, copyright violations and DMCA compliance.

By purchasing our subscription plan, you agree to these terms. Any terms established herein complement and supersede those in our app Terms & Conditions.

If you have any questions about this subscription or want to enable Bloomz Teacher Premium for your whole school, please write to us at support@bloomz.com.

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Bloomz is the unified parent teacher communication app that increases parental engagement by connecting everyone with one easy-to-use tool. Bloomz handles ALL district, school, teacher, parent, and student communication. Bloomz is designed to be the complete unified solution, bringing together teachers, parents and students.

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We were really overwhelmed by the positive reaction we had to last weeks' webinars. We had over 1000 people register! Since not everyone was able to make it, we have opened a new session for this week on Thursday June 25th, 2020 at 10 am Central time.