Boom Live

Boom Live is a screen-mirroring feature that allows multiple users to play a Boom Card at the same time. Teachers will see each student's mouse movement and answers. Students can collaborate with each other and work as a team to complete the Boom deck! This is great for 1 on 1 sessions, group work, therapy sessions, and more!

This feature is available for all users with a Paid Membership level.

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Here's how to start and manage a Live Session:

Here's how to start and manage a Live Session:

Go to your Library and select a Boom Card, click on the Action dropdown menu and select "Start Boom Live".

An image showing the action dropdown menu with the options, in order, "presentation mode", "prep mode (preview)", "assign", "fast pin", "start boom live", "hyperplay link", "print", "custom play settings", "view report", "review deck", "contact author", and "delete".

This will open the Boom Live Setup menu, from here you can set your sessions default permissions.

An image of the boom live setup menu showing permissions for viewers to see the cursor of other viewers, to select answers and use drag and drop, to type answers in fill-in-the-blank, and to use the toolbar to navigate the deck. The start session button is at the bottom.

Once you set your preferred permissions, click "Start Session". A Modal will automatically populate with the 2 different ways you can invite participants to access the live session, using a Pin or a Link.

An image of a modal with a copyable pin and a copyable link.

Managing a play session

Teachers can easily change their student's access settings without going into your Live management settings.

Teacher's can toggle their class's access to interacting with the deck using the switch in the upper right corner, the switch will look like this:

When your student access is on, it will be blue. When your students are blocked from interacting, it will be red.

Student view will look like this:

When they have access, they will see a blue Mouse on symbol shown below.

When they do not have access, they will see it turn red.

This setting is a blanket on/off switch, if you would like to allow select students to interact with the deck at once you can fine tune those settings in your management settings.

An image of the live session management screen with a list of students allowed to interact and a search bar for adding more.

These settings can be accessed using the red "signal" icon in the top left corner.

Using a Pin

The students can use a Pin from their setting menu or the Boom Cards main page.

An image of the settings menu. Under "connect" there's a button for "boom live".

An image of the boom cards main page. There are buttons for "student sign-in", "fastplay", and "boom live".

Using a Link

The students can either copy and paste the link into their browser or click on the link in a page you provide.

Starting the session

When the student accesses the Boom Live Session for the first time they will be prompted to enter their name for the session. Multiple students can join the Live Session. To leave the Live Session, students can click on blue signal icon in upper left corner and click on Leave Session.

Teachers will see all Connected Users and be able to give them mouse, button, submit and keyboard controls by clicking the red "signal" icon in the top left corner.

Click on the icon for each control you would like to enable. Click Save Changes.

An image of the student list with four icons beside each name. The enabled controls are blue, and the diabled controls are grayed out. The buttons for "end session" and "save changes" are at the bottom.

You can end the session at any time by clicking the red signal icon and End Session.

Please Note: No reports are saved because this feature does not require the student to log into their student account.

If you have any further questions, please feel free to email us at help@boomlearning.com or call us at (833) WOW-BOOM. A real human will happily help you!