One app for all your parent communication.
Bloomz is the FREE award-winning app that saves teachers lots of time in all parent communications, while creating a supportive classroom community.
“Make your life easier by consolidating all of your communications and coordination with parents.” – WeAreTeachers
“If you’re looking for ways to build relationships with and between families, check out Bloomz!” – The Cornerstone for Teachers
“There’s one app that does it all, it’s called Bloomz.” – Vicki Davis (CoolCatTeacher)
Bloomz makes it easy for teachers to securely share photos, classroom updates and reach parents instantly through messaging, as well as to coordinate events (like PT Conferences) and sign up for volunteers.
Bloomz now supports Student Timelines, a simple & beautiful way to capture and share student-driven portfolios. Students can publish their work by quickly scanning a QR code and annotating their work. Teachers can approve and instantly share with parents on Student's Timelines.
With Bloomz teachers can:
- Post class updates and share pictures, and see who’s viewing them
- Manage events and calendar, with built-in reminders
- Schedule Parent-Teacher Conferences in seconds
- Sign up volunteers in a few easy steps
- Message one or more parents, without sharing their cell phone number
- Send alerts notifications for urgent matters, to both phone and email in one click.
- Invite parents via email or class code for privacy
- Capture & share student-driven portfolios with parents securely via Student Timelines
- Reinforce students’ positive behavior, sharing notes and awards with parents
With Bloomz parents can:
- Sign up FREE and be notified via SMS/TEXT messaging
- Choose between push and email notifications, as well as their frequency
- Read posts in their preferred language with one-click translations (80 languages available)
- Communicate with other parents for play dates, carpooling and more
Awards:
- 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
- Best of Show @ ISTE 2016 – Tech & Learning
- Best Website for Teaching and Learning 2016 – American Association of School Librarians (AASL)
Subscription:
Bloomz is always free for teachers, parents and schools. Bloomz may experiment with different premium experiences, while continue to offer both educators and parents a free platform to connect, coordinate and communicate.
The Bloomz Convenience Pack is an easy and quick way to download and share media posted on Bloomz, in full resolution, and without restrictions.* For only $1.67 a month (billed annually at $19.99), parents get photo and video downloads at full resolution on both mobile and desktop, with multiple media selection (including full albums) and unlimited access, even after class is archived. Note: Teachers can always upload unlimited number of photos and/or videos to share with parents at no cost.
* Your subscription is effective for 1 calendar year starting with your purchase. Your iTunes account will be charged at confirmation of purchase and automatically renews at the then current price, unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can turn off auto-renew at any time from your iTunes account settings, and you can cancel any time by emailing support@bloomz.com. You can ask for a refund within the first 15 days as long as no content has been downloaded after payment. Prices shown are in U.S. dollars. Other restrictions apply.
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The past three years of using Bloomz has helped simplify and enhance the way we send out information at our preschools! Now not only I as a supervisor can send out notices / emails to parents but so can all of our teachers. I no longer have to wait to send out important information till I get back to my computer. I can just send out an alert, announcement or post straight from my phone. Same for the parents, they get the information faster directly to their phones but still can get it on their computer if that is what they prefer (works on both). Bloomz has been essential in emergency alerts as well. When sadly we had to evacuate we opened up our phones once we were to our safe location and notified our families. We choose at our site not to use the behavior portion of the app (Never tried it. It might be great, we just don’t need it at our school) but we do rely on sharing all our photos on Bloomz to show what we do in the classroom & we also use the calendar + sign ups. Sign ups could be for conferences, volunteers or pot lucks etc. Thank you Bloomz for helping us create a stronger school community with a convenient way of communicating!
Just OK
tochita
I’ve been using Bloomz for my son’s class since September 2018. It is my first experience with a classroom app and I have to say that I’m not too impressed. It seems glitchy and not very intuitive. I have badge notifications that seem to take days and days to finally go away after I’ve seen any updates. This alone drives me crazy! When I see a notification badge I end up searching all through the app to find something new, alas it’s all old news. Then magically a day or 3 later the badge will finally disappear. I’m always left wondering if I’ve missed something important from the teacher or another parent. My other issue is that I get notified for every little “like” and “comment” on a post, yet when someone posts photos, there’s no notification. Nothing. Crickets. I’ve recently just stumbled upon some fun pics of my son from October that I had never seen. I’ve also been the main poster of photos for the class and I am 100% certain that no one has seen them. So now I’m wondering that if I post class photos, do I then have to separately send a class-message informing parents to head to the media section to see pics of their kids? Seems very silly and redundant when it could be a simple badge when anything new in any part of the app has been added. I could go on and on. I do like some features, but it could be a LOT better.
Awesome parent/teacher communication
Runat5
I stumbled upon this app 4 years ago. Each school year I invite my families to the app before I meet them. Our back to school night is before the start of the school year and by that time families know a lot about me. One feature I absolutely love is the conference scheduling option. I have them scheduled before meeting the families. I post daily and sometime multiple times a day. Parents love having an insight to the classroom. It gives them an opportunity to talk with their child about that activity rather than the child giving very little information about the school day. Being able to direct message with parents is great too! It has also been great for the homeroom parent team and me to communicate about class activities around holiday time. Bloomz is especially beneficial right now with social distancing and our schools being closed for 2 weeks. I can video myself and post it to the class. Parents are saying how much the kids love being able to see me even though we are not in school. I love this app and am so glad to have found it! Give it a try!
On their way up!
Purrfectrek
As a previous user of Remind and Class Dojo, there are a few things I really love on Bloomz! However, there is still much to be desired.The perks? Uploading multiple pictures is incredibly convenient! I love the sign-up feature whenever I’m having a class party. The ability to differentiate between a permanent post vs. temporary announcement has been really convenient. Also, Setting up parent conferences was a breeze with the sign-up feature! Unfortunately, there was a glitch a week before conferences and 2/3 of my times were deleted.That brings me to the other features that are lacking. I still occasionally get a notification bubble when there are none. On the website, I cannot consistently access my messages, as I can often only see the screen that “teaches” me the conveniences of their messaging system. The overall app is not as user friendly as other messaging systems. The BIGGEST issue I have is that the parents names are not visually connected to all of my students names. I have 34 students, there is no way I have all of their parents’ names memorized, so I would greatly appreciate it if the app was updated so students’ names were visible with all parents’ names when messaging and/or signing up parents. I’m looking forward to seeing how this app improves!
Developer Response
Sorry to hear. We have a new build out that addresses a lot of crash reports and notification issues. Can you please upgrade and let us know.
What's new in Bloomz 6.3.4
Fixes
• Alerts now place the voice call shown in the composer, and a reopened Alert draft or template keeps the voice call choice you saved.
• Events and sign-ups that repeat on several days a week no longer skip every other week.
• Recurring sign-ups: full dates are marked Full, "Sign up for all openings" works, and sign-ups with upcoming dates no longer show as already passed.
• Tapping a text or email link to a post opens it in the right school.
• Posts sent to all parents of a class appear in that class's feed again.
• Photo-only posts no longer send the word "null" as the post text.
• Students are no longer listed twice, and the "Outside this group" unread count matches the messages shown.
• Health Check requests reach parents as a post and can be answered for each child.
• Room Parents can message the other parents in their class.
• If a shared login is used on more devices than allowed, the signed-out device now says why.
• An expired sign-in takes you back to the sign-in screen instead of a blank page.
• The Publish screen explains why public sharing is unavailable instead of staying blank.
Improvements
• Calendar cards name the sign-up item you volunteered for, and event names on the calendar are easier to read.
• Teachers see the student's name next to each parent on conference bookings.
• Conference slots and breaks can be set to the exact minute.
• Forms can include information sections and pre-filled answers.
• The teacher role is labelled "Teacher" throughout the app.
• The Help icon shows a dot when there are release notes you haven't read.
New for schools that turn them on
• Tickets: reserved seating, saved-card checkout, waitlists and a box office.
• Facilities & Rentals and Intervention Passes.
• Childcare centers: care log and daily reports, check-in with verified pickup, lesson plans, progress reports, billing and staff tools.
• Bloomz for Sports: team sign-up, season registration, schedules, tournaments and player stats.
Version 6.3.4
The developer, Bloomz Inc, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Contact Info
Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Financial Info
Location
Contact Info
User Content
Identifiers
Usage Data
Diagnostics
Other Data
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
Seller
Bloomz Inc
Size
195.3 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.5 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.4 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
