What this helps you do
Setup gets your school ready to send: your profile and branding, your timezone and interface language, the school-controlled Blasts account, your email sending address, and the preferences page where families choose what they receive and in which language. A new school sets all of this up through onboarding, and the Hub activates with its first credit purchase from BlastCredits.
When to use it
Do this once before enrollment or back-to-school, and revisit it if your website, your timezone or the person who holds the account changes.
How to do it
- Sign in at /hub/signin/ with an email code, a passkey, or Sign in with Blasts, then open Settings.
- Enter your school name and website so your logo and colors can be captured automatically.
- Set your timezone and country so a 6 p.m. Sunday note actually goes out at 6 p.m. where your families are.
- Choose your interface language. Families choose their own language on their preferences page, which matters in a school where families read several.
- Confirm the school-controlled Blasts account: a mailbox on your school's own domain (not a principal's personal address), which is the root of ownership and recovery. Publish the DNS TXT record Settings shows you to verify the domain, and leave it published.
- Check Email sending: the Hub provisions a sending address for you, and you can pick the weekday your weekly digest goes out. Every new Hub starts with 50 email credits.
- Copy the family preferences link into the back-to-school email and the enrollment confirmation; that is where each parent or guardian picks Blasts, email or both, and their grades and activities.
- Turn on auto-accept for enrollment season, and decide whether a coordinator's Blasts need an administrator's approval.
Example
In July the office manager enters the school name and website, and the Hub pulls the logo and colors so every Blast looks like the school. She sets the timezone, verifies the domain, turns on auto-accept, and puts the preferences link in the back-to-school email so families set their language and their grades on the day they read it.
Good to know
- The Blasts account belongs to the school, not to one person, so it keeps working when a principal or an office manager moves on.
- Add a passkey on Home so step-up confirmations for All Families sends use Face ID, Touch ID or your device PIN.
- You can change the interface language anytime; only the Hub chrome changes, never what families wrote or chose.
- In a small district, each school can run its own Hub, or one Hub can carry campus audiences. Decide before you start inviting families, because that choice shapes the audiences.