Quick Start Guide for Teachers

Quick Start Guide for Teachers

New to Boom and don't know where to start? This article will take you step by step through the basics of navigating and using Boom as a Teacher. You can find a list of the terms we use and their definitions here: Boom Learning Terminology - Helpful Definitions . 

You can also connect with other teachers for ideas on how to use Boom Cards in our Teaching with Boom Cards group on Facebook. 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Memberships, Boom Cards, and Points - what are they?
• Setting up a Teacher Profile
• Setting up Students
• Assigning Boom Cards
• Grading and Reports
• Creating and Organizing Boom Cards

Memberships, Boom Cards, and Points - what are they?

Memberships provide the data processing, hosting, and related elements of the Boom Learning product, including student progress reporting and the ability to create a curriculum by creating your own Boom Cards. Only paid memberships have access to live and stored student success reports. 

Each of the membership levels offers different features. To explore those different membership levels and select the right membership for you, please see the chart available here: https://wow.boomlearning.com/join 

Points - What are they and why do you use them
StoreEstimate Builderbuying Boom Cards for a school

 

Setting up a Teacher Profile

Once you've created an account, you'll want to fill in some basic information on your profile. For steps on how to add a picture, name, and other profile details, take a look at: Setting up Your Profile. 

There is nothing to download or install. Your online account holds all the Boom Cards you make or purchase as well as all student account data.  

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Setting up Students

Create a new classroom by going to the "Classes" tab and clicking on "New Classroom." Then add an individual student by using the "New Student" button, or add all the students in your class with the "Add Many Students" button. 

Students can also be imported from an LMS - such as Google, Classlink, or Clever.

Google Classroom users will find steps for Setting Up Google Classroom with Boom Learning here. 

ClassLink users can learn how to Integrate with ClassLink here.

Clever users should look for instructions on Linking a Clever Account here.

There are a number of ways students can log in to Boom Learning. They can log in using Google, use a Hyperlink to be automatically directed, or go to the Boom Learning login page and type in their username and password. 

You'll find additional information on each of these methods in the FAQ: Adding Students to Classrooms Manually.

There are letters you can download and send to your students explaining how to sign in with the different sign-in methods attached to the FAQ: Quick Start Guide for Students and Parents

Assigning Boom Cards

You can share decks using a Fast Pin, HyperLinks, or by Assigning them to a student individually or a Classroom. We give instructions on each of these methods in our FAQ Assigning, Un-assigning, and Playing Boom Cards. 

For steps on how to assign decks you've made yourself, see Assign your own Decks to Students with Private Publishing.

Grading and Reports

Boom Cards give students instant feedback as they play through the deck. For teachers with a membership that hosts student data, teachers can view progress and performance on the reports page. Data can be viewed either by an individual student or for the whole classroom.

Get a quick tour of the Reports tab in the video below. 

Reports can also be viewed by deck by going through the Library tab to locate the specific deck you'd like to see a report from. Click on the blue "Action" button to open the drop-down menu and then click on "View Report" to open that deck's report. 

From the classroom report, teachers can see assigned decks, who has not yet started on assignments, who has completed all assigned decks, and who is in the process of working through a deck. With some of our memberships, we also offer a Live Monitoring feature for just-in-time interventions. 

You will also see their score so far as well as the number of times they have played through the deck. Find additional information on how to understand and use Student Reports here. 

Creating and Organizing Boom Cards

Boom Cards are created using the Deck Editor within the Studio page. Click here to be taken to your Studio page, where you can begin to upload images and record sounds to create cards from. Creating Boom Cards is fun and rewarding.

To get started making your own Boom Cards, go to your Studio tab and open the "Get Started Creating Boom Cards" deck that we provide automatically. This deck will walk you through the basic Studio tools and give you an opportunity to explore. 

To continue on your journey of learning how to make your own Boom Card decks, activities, assessments, and games, check out our FAQ: Quick Start Guide for Creating Boom Cards.

Getting Connected To Our Community

Teaching with Boom Cards

Creating Boom Cards

Discuss selling those decks you've made in the Boom Store in the Boom Publisher group, which is reserved just for Public Author-related topics and techniques. 

 

Organizing as you Create

For help organizing images, see our FAQ: Managing Images in your Studio

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!