This article provides an overview of the School Dashboard Account and is intended for school/organization account managers only; this information does not apply to individual educator accounts. If you are a School Dashboard manager and do not have your login information, please submit a help ticket or email help@boomlearning.com.



This guide explains how to:

  • Sign in to your School Dashboard account
  • Navigate the different sections of your School Dashboard
  • Read and edit your School Dashboard account information



Click the links below to skip to a specific section:



Signing In

To access your School Dashboard account, begin by signing in.


  1. Click the Sign In tab at the top of the Boom Learning homepage.
    • If you are unable to find the Sign In page, you may be signed in to an account already. Click the Settings button in the upper right corner, and then click "Sign Out" in the window that appears.

  2. Click the red "I'm a School" button.


  3. Click the blue "Sign in with Email/Username" button.


  4. Input your School Dashboard credentials. The username and password were emailed to you when your order was fulfilled. You can recover your password through the email address linked to the School Dashboard account using the Forgot Password link.

  5. If you are accessing the account for the first time, you will be prompted to agree to the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy -- click the "I agree" check boxes next to each of the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy to access the account.



After signing in, you will see "School" at the top of your page, followed by five tabs.



The next section of this guide goes into detail about what each of these tabs contain.



School Information Tab

Your School Information tab provides a general overview of your School Dashboard. Information is divided into four areas: Account, School Address, Address, and School Private Data.


Account

This section displays important information about accessing your account your changing your password. 



UserID: This is a unique ID attached to your account and cannot be changed.


Username: This is the username you will enter on the "Sign In" page to log into your School Dashboard. Click on the username to change it.


Email: Click on this field to set or change the email used for password recovery. The email must not be associated with an existing Boom Learning account.


Password: Click the "Change Password" button to update your password.


School Address

The information in this section is used on correspondence such as quotes and invoices, so please ensure that it looks accurate. You can update each field by clicking on it.



Address

This section contains your school's full billing address. Just as before, you can click on each field to make changes if needed.



School Private Data

This section contains information about your purchases, expiration date, and contact information. The only editable information in this section are the Accounts Payable and School Manager email fields.



Points: How many unassigned points are available to distribute to your teachers.


Boom Plus Seats: How many teacher memberships are available to assign to your teachers.


Organization Expiry: The expiration date of your subscription.


District Email Domain: Your school/district's email domain (the information after the "@" symbol).


Student Pool: This is an unused feature, please feel free to ignore this field.


Accounts Payable (email): The email for your Accounts Payable contact.


School Manager (email): The email of the School Dashboard manager.



Teachers Tab 

The Teachers tab provides an overview of the teachers that have been linked into the school account. They will appear alphabetically.



Note: Just because a teacher account is linked to the School Dashboard does not yet mean that they are upgraded to the school subscription. For specific instructions on how to add and upgrade your teachers, please refer to this separate guide: Adding and Provisioning Teacher Accounts with the School Dashboard.

 


Edit or Reassign


Clicking the Blue Pencil button will present two options.


Edit allows you to change the email nickname and username for an account. To save your changes, you must assign a username if there isn't one. An error when entering a new email or username usually means that the email or username is already in use on a different account.

Reassign allows you to assign an account to a new teacher while removing any personal information from the old teacher. The new user will keep access to the account's library and student data. This function only works when the new teacher doesn't already have an account. For help to reassign an account to an existing teacher please contact help@boomlearning.com.


Send Password Reset



The Yellow Key button allows you to send a teacher a reset password link. Once are click this link, they will be prompted to create a new password.  


Email 

Contains the email that is attached to the teacher account. 


Nickname

This is the teacher name that students see. Both the teacher and the School Dashboard admin can see and change this name. 


Username 

Usernames can be used to login in lieu of an email. Usernames must be unique.

 

User ID 

The User ID is a unique set of randomized letters and numbers that is used to identify a teacher account and cannot be changed. It is not used to log in. When contacting customer service, please include the User ID so we know exactly which account you need help with. 


Last Login  

This field shows the last time this teacher logged into their account. If this field is blank, that means that teacher has never logged into their account. The last login date can be used in conjunction with the Purchased Decks field to gauge a teacher's usage.


Purchased Decks 

This field shows how many Boom Cards Decks your teacher has added to their library from the Boom Store. This includes free decks and decks purchased with points. If the teacher previously used Boom before joining the school account it will also include all previously purchased decks.


Expiration  

This field shows when a teacher account is set to expire. If successfully added and upgraded, that teacher account expiration should read as a green SUBSCRIBED, and the date should match your school’s expiration date on the School Information Tab.



If this field is showing a red NOT SUBSCRIBED message, that means that the teacher previously had a membership that is expired. 



A blank expiration date indicates a brand new teacher with no membership applied. 



 

Membership

This field shows whether a teacher account is upgraded into the school’s subscription. A green ASSIGN button means that the teacher does not have a membership assigned.



Once you assign a membership to a teacher, you will see a blue RECLAIM button appear.



If you renewed your school's subscription within 90 days of your expiration date, you will see a blue RENEW button instead. This functions just like the ASSIGN button.



 

Level  

This indicates the level of membership on a teacher account. Most accounts will show BoomPlus once memberships are assigned. Some legacy accounts may show PowerPlus.


If you see a membership other than BoomPlus or PowerPlus, you can still apply a membership using the RENEW or ASSIGN buttons. If you encounter an error, please contact us at help@boomlearning.com.



Points & the Add/Remove Points Button  

These last two fields tie in together. The Points field shows you the current points balance of a teacher. 


 

The Add/ Remove Points button allows you to assign or remove points to/from a teacher account. Just type in the number of points you'd like to transfer from your School Dashboard into the teacher's account.



To remove points, simply use a - sign before the amount. You can always check your total number of school points in your School Information tab.  



Students Tab


The Students tab contains some of your teachers' student data. This chart is searchable using the search bar. Information can then be copied and pasted into a spreadsheet.




Teacher ID: The User ID of the teachers that owns this student profile.


Student Nickname: The nickname given by the teacher who created the student profile.


Student Email: This will only display for students who have been imported via Google, Microsoft, Clever, or ClassLink. Student accounts created within Boom (and use the "Log in with Boom" option) do not have an email address by default.


Student Username: The username generated by the system or created by the teacher. It can be used to log in as the associated student.


Student ID: The unique ID used to identify the student account. This cannot be changed and is not used to log in.


Last Login: The last time the student logged into their account.


Other usage data, such as activities assigned/completed and grades, can only be accessed by the teacher.


For more information about student data privacy, please see: Student Privacy Notice.



Subscription Tab


The Subscription tab contains a quick School Account Usage report as well as your purchase history. You can also request new estimates here using the "Request New Estimate" button.



You can find out more information on submitting add-on estimate requests in this guide, and information on submitting renewal requests in this guide.


Points Tab

The points tab displays a table with information about when points were distributed to and from teacher accounts within the School Dashboard. It keeps a record of the date and time of the points transfer, the email and User ID of the teacher, and how many points were moved.