Quick Start Guide for Schools and Admins

If you run into unfamiliar terms, reference: Boom Learning Terminology - Helpful Definitions

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• What Are You Actually Purchasing? (Quick Overview)

  • Subscription
  • Curriculum Points
  • Administrator Dashboard
• What if Someone Already has an Account?
• Quick Steps For Buying For Your School Or Organization
• Managing And Updating Your Administrator Account
• Privacy & Compliance
• Still have questions?

What are you actually purchasing? (Quick overview)  

When buying Boom for a school or district, you’re typically choosing between:

Subscriptions – Give teachers access to create, assign, and track Boom Cards

Points – A shared budget used to purchase Boom Cards from the store

Most schools use a combination of both.

All purchases are managed through a central Admin Dashboard, which allows you to assign, monitor, and reallocate resources across staff.

Subscriptions

For organization we offer 2 Subscription options; Boom Passport and Boom Access+.

Boom Passport includes access to over 80,000 vetted decks in the Boom Store without the need to purchase points.

Boom Access+ requires Curriculum Points to buy decks.

Both included educator access to:

• 17 flexible groupings/classrooms per teacher account
• The ability to create unlimited self-made decks with animated Gifs and sound.
• In-depth student reports with Live Monitoring.
• The ability to easily share self-made decks using the private School Store feature.
• The ability to share students with the Colleagues tool or via integration with a compatible LMS.
• A variety of SSO options, including ClassLink, Clever, Google, Microsoft, and Canvas.

Curriculum Points

Boom Cards and other premium content is accessed using Curriculum Points, which are purchased separately from your Boom Access+ Subscription.

• Curriculum Points are redeemed in the store for premium Boom Cards, images, fonts, and Printables.
• Content is added to a teacher’s library and does not expire, allowing users to build a resource library over time.
• Unused Points purchased prior to June 8th 2026 do not expire and can be reclaimed and redistributed to other users via the School Dashboard
  • Points purchased on or after June 8th 2026 expire when the subscription expires.
• Unused Points balances automatically roll over from year to year as long as an active subscription is maintained.

administrator Dashboard

Let's you assign, monitor, and reallocate everything across your team

• Invite or create teacher accounts.

• Distribute or reclaim subscriptions and/or Curriculum Points.

• Monitor teacher and student usage.

• Reassign accounts, including previously purchased content, to new users.

Admin Accounts are set up automatically and allow you to view and manage who and what is on the School or Organization Account. Admins can renew or purchase additional memberships or points, monitor usage of accounts, and reclaim unused points or memberships to be redistributed.

What if someone Already has an Account?

This way your educators maintain continuity without starting over!

Buying Points for Boom Cards or Memberships

The buying process is covered in more detail in the article Buying Boom Learning for a School or Organization.

Step One - Request A Quote

Step Two - Legal Agreements and any other required documents

There are two main categories of agreements: Privacy Agreements and Terms of Purchase/Service. We must have certain privacy terms and licensing terms in our agreements with you. We specifically reject all purchase order terms and conditions that override our privacy agreement or terms of service without substituting an acceptable alternative. Questions regarding specific terms or language in our agreements should be directed to legal@boomlearning.com.

Step Three - submit a Purchase Order or Payment

You can send your purchase order directly to your sales agent or email the purchase order to sales@boomlearning.com or reply to the ticket your agent opened for you. We understand some schools require a fax number to complete a PO. You may use this number (425) 405-6436.

Step Four - Organization's account is provisioned

A Boom Sales agent will provision your account and send the account administrator an onboarding email with a link so you can access the account. 

Step five - Dashboard Access And Admin Account Set Up

School Administrator Account for Organizations from Boom Learning on Vimeo.

You can find more information about Provisioning your teachers in this article: Adding and Provisioning Teacher Accounts with the School Dashboard.

Managing and Updating Your Administrator Account

Similarly, you can use this button to add points or purchase additional teacher or student seats at any time.

For legal questions, please reach out to: legal@boomlearning.com.

Still have questions?

If you have questions about buying Boom for your school, you can reach out to: sales@boomlearning.com.

Please note that Boom is primarily operating from Pacific Time, and that high call volumes may limit the amount of time agents can spend on the phone. 

If you have any questions about setting up your admin account, setting up your school, or getting your teachers added reach out via email Help@boomlearning.com or Schedule a call with a Customer Service Agent.