Homeroom Private Photo Sharing +4

I needed a free way to share all of our amazing class pictures with all of our awesome parents. This app. was extremely easy to use. I was able to load all of the photos and it allowed me to write under each one, so I could say who was in the picture or what the activity was. I will continue using this every year and I would definitely recommend this to anyone who needs to share pictures with multiple people.

I have used this app for the past 4 years to share photos with parents/families of my preschool students. It is a similar format to facebook, photos you upload are posted for participants to view, like and comment on. Users can also save photos you post to their device and you can have more than one group at a time. It’s easy to start a new group for a new school year, or delete an old one. You can turn off some of the features depending on the privacy level you want. I suggest teachers check their settings before inviting parents so that only you can edit settings or add people. Only people you invite to join the group can view the pictures and announcements you post and you can easily remove people if needed. You can have more than one admin if you have coteachers or assistants. My only complaint is that it can be very slow to upload pictures sometimes. It is faster to upload 1-2 photos at a time, otherwise photos get stuck in a seemingly endless uploading phase and don’t post until hours or days later.

Our whole school uses Homeroom from Preschool to 8th grade — it has a UI that is friendly for all levels of school and is simple to use. It would be so lovely to have search and the ability to set up tags or hashtags for classifying certain posts because we use Homeroom as a replacement for weekly newsletters. Also, I’d allow users to upload videos on desktop and also put in a friendly tutorial on image sizes for album covers because it’s really finicky plus add in character limits with a countdown. I actually had to add in Latin to test how many characters or words you can add before you max it out. I’d also add in the ability set in reminders or a push notification to say, “do you have something to share today?” Or something to remind the teacher to post. Please keep evolving this app!