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How Much Is A Boom Card Membership

Boom Card Membership

Over the last few summers, I have done a “What Are Boom Cards” challenge for teachers who want to know how to use the Boom Learning platform from start to finish. One of the challenges was choosing the right membership level for your classroom. In order to do that, you’re probably wondering, “How much is a boom card membership?”

With any digital platform, there’s always change, at various times, Boom Learning Cards has changed its membership levels. Their last membership change and price increase was in October of 2021.  This article is going to walk you through those level changes and how they affect your Boom Card Membership.

This is what the current Boom Card membership levels look like.

Let’s look over the types of memberships in the Boom Learning program and any major changes over the last few years.

Free Boom Card Membership

  • 5 Students
  • 5 Self-Made Decks (no custom sounds)
  • Boom Cards Fast Play
  • Detailed Reports For Your Students

The free membership looks about the same as before, so if you’ve been dabbling with Boom Cards using the free plan, it looks like you’re not going to be affected by these changes at all. However, if you were thinking about upgrading your membership, I’d do it asap before the prices are raised.  They have offered locked in prices in the past.  Be sure to watch your email for any specials they may offer.

Boom Card Membership - Free

Essential Boom Card Membership

  • $25 per year
  • Previously “Basic Membership”
  • 17 Classrooms Or Groups Of Students
  • 5 Self-Made Decks (no custom sounds)
  • Boom Cards Fast Play
  • Detailed Reports
  • Sharing Capabilities For Reports
  • Sharing Capabilities For Self-Made Decks
This replaces the “basic” boom card membership. There is a price increase of $10, they raised the price of this plan from $15 a year to $25. But you do have a few more perks this way. You have 17 groups of students instead of three. Awesome for differentiation with your small groups! You also have up to 150 students! If you team teach with multiple classrooms, this is going to be helpful for you. There are sharing options too! Now you can share Boom Decks that you’ve made with other teachers, and you can share your student reports with their parents.
Boom Card Essential Membership

The Premium Boom Cards Membership

  • $40 per year.
  • Previously the “Power” Membership
  • 150 Students
  • 17 Classrooms or Student Groups
  • Unlimited Self-Made Decks WITH Custom Sounds
  • Boom Cards Fast Play and Live Monitoring
  • Sharing Capabilities For Self-Made Decks
  • Sharing Capabilities For Student Reports
  • How to Create A Boom Card Tutorial
This membership looks like it combined the “Power” and the “PowerPlus” memberships. The price increased to $40.You’ll have everything the Essentials membership offers, plus live monitoring for your students and a “Creating Your Own Boom Card Tutorial”. You’ll also have the ability to use custom sounds of your own when you make your own Boom Decks. So if you’ve wanted to make your own decks with your own sounds, this is where to begin. You can make as many as you’d like too!
Boom Cards Premium

The Publisher Boom Cards Membership

  • $50 per year
  • Previously the “Ultimate” Membership
  • 150 Students
  • 17 Classrooms or Student Groups
  • Unlimited Self-Made Decks WITH Custom Sounds
  • Boom Cards Fast Play and Live Monitoring
  • Sharing Capabilities For Self-Made Decks
  • Sharing Capabilities For Student Reports
  • How to Create A Boom Card Tutorial
  • How to Sell Boom Card Tutorial
This membership level has everything that the previous levels have, but more for teachers who would like to make and sell their Boom Decks. This is the new version of the “Ultimate” membership. The price raised from $25 to $50, an increase of $15 a year. But you’ll have access to a helpful Boom Card tutorial showing you how to create AND sell your Boom Cards.
Boom Cards Publisher

The Boom Plus Membership

This membership is available for schools to customize a Boom Learning account for their student body. It reminds me of a “Seesaw For Schools” account. This would be a Boom Learning Account for everyone in your school, or a selected portion of teachers. Your administration can move a student to another class as the school year ends and the next one begins. Your school would have to contact Boom Learning with the number of classrooms and students enrolled to get a custom Boom Plus Membership.
Boom Cards Plus membership

Other Thoughts On Boom Card Memberships

Something else new: You can purchase spots for students now! Or maybe you could before, but it was in teeny tiny fine print that I couldn’t see. Either way, if you have a free account, and would like to increase the number of students, but not upgrade to the next boom card membership level, this option is available.

A quick word on price increases. Nobody likes it when this happens. Nobody. Especially when you’re talking about something you pay for out of your own pocket to use for your students. However, comparing the Boom Card prices to other similar education platforms, the previous prices were relatively low. These new prices are about average for the cost of using an educational platform. Keeping that in mind might help the sticker shock feel a little less painful.

Which Boom Card Membership is right for you? Find any special hacks or savings?  Let us know in the comments!

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