Understanding Your Options: School Signals vs. Bloomz
Both Bloomz and School Signals offer ways to help schools share news, organize events, and keep families involved, but they take slightly different paths to get there.
Bloomz is familiar to many teachers for its classroom-based messaging and behavior tracking features. School Signals is built for school-wide and district-wide communication management.
School Signals integrates easy parent signup to the platform. In School Signals, parents do not need to enter multiple invitation codes but rather their student’s grade and classroom determines the parent’s access rights, making the onboarding and adaptation for a parent much faster.
For school admins, the School Signals app provides access to manage everything, including admin, teacher and parent accounts.
While usability is not a clear metric, we recommend you booking a demo for School Signals and experience our app first-hand as a user.
| Item | Bloomz | School Signals |
|---|---|---|
| Communication Features | + Classroom posts, and grade-level posts + Commenting and reactions on teacher posts + Post notifications + Group and direct messaging + Auto-translation into 200+ languages + Behavior, attendance, and assignment notifications + School-wide posts available (less structured than dedicated feeds) | + School Feed for news and announcements + Commenting and reactions on teacher posts + Post notifications + Scheduled posts for announcements + Parents can participate in the discussion feeds + AI driven profanity checks for content monitoring + Classroom communication + Discussion threads integrated to most features + Direct messaging between teachers and parents + Event announcements with RSVP tracking + Parents are automatically included to applicable grade-level communication; they do not need to join each audience separately. Just one invitation message instead of many. |
| Parent Engagement Features | + Volunteer Signup + Parent-teacher conference scheduler + Behavior tracking and student portfolios | + RSVP-enabled events + Volunteer Signup + Parent Groups by classroom and activity. + School directory profiles with hobbies/interests/pictures for community networking + School-wide Parent-Teacher Conference scheduler and management |
| Other Features | + Student behavior tracking (PBIS support) + Student portfolio and assignment sharing | + Online Forms (surveys, permission slips, feedback forms) + Documents management + School Calendar for important dates + Photo Galleries for school/classroom sharing + Staff Groups for internal school communication |
| Mobile App | Yes. Masquerade (account management) features are not included to the mobile app. | Yes. + School Signals includes all admin features (including account management) to the App. + Easy to navigate |
| Audience | • Originally designed for classroom-level communication • Scales up to schools and districts with premium plans • Popular among individual teachers who initiate adoption | • Always provided for the entire school and school district, for school's all communication needs. • Designed for admins, teachers, office staff, and volunteers to coordinate together |
| Pricing | + Free basic plan for classroom communication + Premium plans required for school/district-wide features • Pricing details not fully public | + Free 30-day trial + $0.32 to $.0.55 cents per student per year |