Frequently asked questions

Forever. Each school YearBoxx for each year will be available for purchase through the website forever.

Forever

Absolutely NOT

No, there will NEVER be an additional charge to access your yearbook

You will simply go back into the software you created the yearbook with, YearBoxxCreate, make any correction/edit needed, and instantly, every copy of your yearbook will have the correction/edit pushed into it

You will use YearBoxxCreate, a software suite designed to make building your yearbook easy. It is Drag & Drop SIMPLE, taking hours, not weeks and months 

YearBoxx has been designed to be accessed on your CELLPHONE, Tablet, Laptop and Desktop computers

Never. Privacy is of great importance to us

Yes, it is. We host your material on AWS (Amazon Work Space) which uses the latest security measures available. Companies such as Netflix, Adobe and NASA us AWS to host their sites.

In the HIGHLY UNLIKELY event something was to happen, you will be able to download a PDF copy of your yearbook.

Yes, you can, and all the money is kept by the Yearbook Club/School

1. They Yearbook Staff will need to make sure inappropriate material is not initially put into the yearbook. This is the same protocol as with a print yearbook. The Yearbook Staff if the first and best defense
2. YearBoxx has filters like Meta has to reject inappropriate material
3. In the unlikely event something inappropriate gets into the yearbook, it can easily be deleted/edited in the build software, YearBoxxCreate

Yes, this can be done on the website.

YES! Many schools will have both, the print yearbook as an archival copy and YearBoxx that that can be updated and accessed anytime, anywhere for life.

Yes, there are in app protocols to help the class stay connected

You can’t! It is safely stored in the cloud for you to access anytime, anywhere for life. 

No

We at Idiom are awfully excited about the inclusion of Embedded Video to yearbooks! Be aware that you can add not just A video, but multiple videos to every section of your Yearbook.

1. Every Club, Activity and Sport can have videos
2. The Administrators can include a video with their letters.
3. The Theme Section can have text, pictures, and video.
4. There is a special section we have created just for Idiom Yearbooks called School/Class Videos, where you can make videos celebrating your School and Class.

All the videos can be unedited footage or highly produced. Videos are going to redefine what a yearbook is! All the videos can be rough footage or highly produced. Videos are going to redefine what a Yearbook is!

Be imaginative and have fun as you come up with different and creative ways to enhance the memories of such an important year

VIDEO SIZE: Up to 100MB (NOTE – the School and Class videos can be 500MB) – NOTE, Nikolay, please confirm this

VIDEO FILES: avi, mpeg, quicktime, mp4 – NOTE, Nikolay, please confirm this

IMAGE SIZE: Up to 5MB

IMAGE FILES: jpg, jpeg, png

As opposed to a print yearbook, that needs up to 8 weeks to be printed and delivered, YearBoxx has NO DEADLINES. The yearbook staff decides when they want the yearbook to be distributed, and that will be the ‘deadline.’ However, even after YearBoxx has been finaled, the yearbook staff can STILL add pictures and video to any section as well as create new sections that frequently occur after print yearbooks have been distributed.

As addressed above, YearBoxx does not have deadlines and has been designed to add Prom and Graduation post distribution! The sections are already setup making it easy to build. Once they are completed, they will be ‘pushed’ into the existing copies.

Because YearBoxx is digital, it really doesn’t have pages, it has pictures/artwork, video and text. So, the real question is how much ‘MATERIAL’ can you have in your YearBoxx yearbook. The answer… there is NO LIMIT. You can put as many pictures/artworks, videos, and text as you would like. With YearBoxx, you can truly capture all the memories of the school year, from small clubs that a print yearbook may not have room for to end of year events that happen after a print yearbook deadline!

The Future Events section is where Seniors can share milestone life events:

• Higher Education
• Career
• Marriages
• Birth Events
• Reunions

Once the yearbook has been completed, the Yearbook Advisor will select the – Publish – icon. Everyone who has purchased a copy or has a copy been purchased for them, will receive an email with a link to download their copy. All Seniors and Faculty/Administration who have not purchased a copy will also receive an email giving them a link to purchase one.

After your yearbook has been distributed, anything can be corrected/edited. This can be done the day it has been released or twenty years later! To make corrections, simply go back into your YearBoxxCreate account, Main Table of Contents for that particular year, choose the – UNPUBLISH – icon and make the edits just like you did to build your book. The edits will be made instantly in everybody’s yearbook.

There are several sections that Seniors can update post distribution:

1. Future Events: This section is where Seniors can share life milestone events –

1. Higher Education
2. Careers
3. Weddings
4. Babies
5. Reunions

1. MY PAGE (Faculty can also do this on their MY PAGE)

Every Senior who is uploaded into YearBoxx will have a MY PAGE. Think of a MY PAGE as a personal portal or their own Yearbook within the Yearbook, a way to brand themselves. Here they can –

1. Leave a Quote
2. Have classmates leave a text AND a digital SIGNATURE
3. Seniors can upload photos to their MY PAGE for life, classmates will be able to view them here
4. List Activities
5. Share Future Plans
6. Include a personal Write UP, where they can tell their story

NOTE: When the Seniors/Faculty portraits are uploaded, an email will automatically be sent to them giving them a link where they can fill out their questionnaires. This information will be auto populated to their MY PAGES. The yearbook staff nothing to do here, although, we recommend that they proof the questionnaires.  

Yearbooks are FOREVER… and that is what YearBoxx will be, safely stored in the cloud, always accessible.

The yearbook staff will build YearBoxx using a program called YearBoxxCreate. YearBoxxCreate is the software designed to be Drag & Drop simple, taking just a few hours to build your yearbook.

The yearbook staff (and classmates) will take photographs AND VIDEO of everything that will capture the entire school year. The Professional Yearbook Photographer typically takes the portrait photos and sometimes additional things.

Yes, there are directions to do this in YearBoxxCreate.

The first line of defense to protect against inappropriate material getting into your yearbook is the yearbook staff. After that, we have similar software that will scan images for inappropriate material that Facebook uses. In the unlikely event something gets through, it will be possible to go back into YearBoxxCreate and make the deletion/edits there.

Tech Support is available at – support@yearboxx.com