FAQs
Bored Teachers Community
The Bored Teachers Community is an open platform for anyone who wants to post awesome things about education. It is a place for educators to connect, communicate, relate, laugh, cry, and share stories, materials, experiences or helpful information with each other. Once you’ve registered, you can create and publish articles, photos, videos, quizzes, polls, gifs, lists, and even make your own memes! If people like your posts and they get enough views, they may be featured on the Community Page, or even on the main pages of BoredTeachers.com! If you submit posts that are fake news or include hateful/inappropriate content, you won’t be welcomed into the community and your posts will never be visible. Don’t ruin a good thing!
Bored Teachers reserves the right to delete any post for any reason — read our full user agreement here.
If you are a company, brand, or an individual wishing to promote a product or service by including links or reviews within community posts, your posts won’t ever make it on the site. To learn more about advertising through Bored Teachers, check out this page.
Here are a few other guidelines to keep in mind before signing up:
1. Be cool. Be kind.
You’ve heard the saying: Kindness is cool. So, if you want to be cool and be a part of this community, put your kind cap on and leave your hater hat at the door! If you’re here, it’s probably because you followed the laughter, the fun vibe, or some awesome teaching resources.
2. Just laugh.
Remember that a large portion of the Bored Teachers content is cast in a humorous light to make teachers find laughter in the trials and tribulations of the profession. That’s what comedy is all about! We’re human and we all have the right to express how we feel, laugh about it, and still love our students and our jobs.
3. Don’t hate, appreciate!
We do not tolerate shaming or bashing of ANY kind on Bored Teachers. No one is perfect, we’re all human. All teachers are different, and that’s what makes education so incredible. We all have different approaches, different styles, different ways of managing our classrooms, and different ways of coping, repairing, and preparing outside of the classroom. It’s not a competition, we’re all in this together. Without each other, we’d never make it out alive each school year. So embrace each other’s differences, learn from one another, and appreciate each other, because we can all use the positive reinforcement throughout the year!
Easy peasy! If you’re on a desktop computer, either click on the login icon (that looks like a tiny human) in the top-right-hand corner of the screen in the black bar, next to the SUBMIT button
OR
Open the mobile (burger) menu by clicking on the 3 little lines to the left of the BT logo, and then click on the LOGIN button toward the bottom.
> Then, you can either register with your Facebook, Twitter, or Google+ account, or with your email address.
Open the mobile (burger) menu by clicking on the 3 little lines to the left of the BT logo, and then click on the pink LOGOUT button at the bottom.
Yes, you can! Once signed in, you can request friends with other users, mention them in your updates, send them private messages, and even start groups!
Go to your profile, click on the “PROFILE” tab, then click on “EDIT”. Here, you can change your user name and your biography/description.
Find the “Settings” tab in your profile.
- On mobile, scroll all the way to the right on the profile menu bar.
- On desktop, click on the 3 dots to the far right of the profile menu bar.
> Once in Settings, you will see the option to create a new password.
Go to your profile, click on the “PROFILE” tab, then click on “Change Profile Photo”.
Find the “Settings” tab in your profile.
- On mobile, scroll all the way to the right on the profile menu bar.
- On desktop, click on the 3 dots to the far right of the profile menu bar.
> Once in Settings, you will see the option to change the email address associated with your account.
Submissions
If you’re already logged in to your account, simply click on any of the “SUBMIT” buttons. If you don’t have an account yet, you’ll need to register and sign in, first. A pop-up window will appear with a list of submission options. Find which one you want to submit, upload your content, and hit the “Publish” button when you’re done. *If you’re writing the article inside the submission tool, don’t forget to save your work periodically to make sure it doesn’t get lost, by hitting the “Save Draft” button at the bottom!
Easy peasy! If you’re on a desktop computer, either click on the login icon (that looks like a tiny human) in the top-right-hand corner of the screen in the black bar, next to the SUBMIT button
OR
Open the mobile (burger) menu by clicking on the 3 little lines to the left of the BT logo, and then click on the LOGIN button toward the bottom.
> Then, you can either register with your Facebook, Twitter, or Google+ account, or with your email address.
If you’re already logged in to your account, simply click on any of the “SUBMIT” buttons. If you don’t have an account yet, you’ll need to register and sign in, first. A pop-up window will appear with a list of submission options. Find which one you want to submit (Trivia Quiz, Personality Quiz or Poll), fill out the required fields, and when you’re done, hit the “Publish” button. *Don’t forget to save your work periodically to make sure it doesn’t get lost, by hitting the “Save Draft” button at the bottom!
Due to the high volume of submissions, your submission will be published as soon as humanly possible.
Good question! The photos will not show in your draft until you’ve hit the “Save Draft” button at the bottom. Once you save, the page will refresh and show the photos you’ve uploaded in the draft, AND you’ll be able to preview what the post will look like on the site!
If you tried to save and it didn’t save, then you’ll see an “Error” notice at the bottom. It will tell you how many errors there are that you need to fix before the draft can be saved. Scroll back up in the draft and find the fields you left blank highlighted in red. Once they’re completed, hit the save button again, and that should do the trick!
Articles that get good engagement (views & shares) will get considered to be featured on the front page of our website and/or other main category pages. Once featured on one of these pages, the article is most likely be shared to our millions of followers on social media soon after, as well.
Points & Rewards
When you create a Bored Teachers account, you can earn points by simply having fun! Try making your own article, quiz, poll, list or meme. Submit a photo or video to share with the world of teachers! The more your posts are shared and viewed, the more points you earn. Invite your teacher friends to join the fun and earn even more points! Once you get enough points, you can use them to redeem awesome prizes, classroom supplies, and teacher gear!
You can earn points in a number of ways. The following is a list of the different ways you can earn points and how many for each way:
- Viewing content – 3pts
- Publishing Content –
- Published memes/polls/images – 5pts
- Published videos/quizzes – 10pts
- Published articles – 15pts
- Viewing Videos – 3pts
- Daily visits – 5pts
- Reaching views milestones on single post –
- Every 1,000 views – 15pts
- 5,000 views – 75pts
- 10,000 views – 150pts
- Trending post – 50pts
- Referrals – 100pts
Points can be used to redeem awesome prizes, including:
- Gift cards
- School supplies
- Teacher gear
- Discounts
- And MORE!
*Points do not have a monetary value and cannot be redeemed for cash. For details, read our full terms here.
Rewards Thresholds:
Gift Cards—
- 10,000pts
- $50 gift card
- 15,000pts
- $75 gift card
- 20,000pts
- $100 gift card
School Supplies—A surprise box of classroom supplies and teacher goodies.
- 10,000pts
- Beginner Box of Supplies
- 15,000pts
- Teacher Ninja Box
- 20,000pts
- Educational Rockstar Box
More awesome prizes coming soon!
Once you’ve reached a point threshold, simply send us an email at info@boredteachers.com with your username, mailing address, and the prize of your choice. Once we confirm your points, we will ship you your prize within 10-15 business days.
Confessions
This page is for educators ONLY — the heroes who spend their days surrounded by children and feel the need to get something off their chest, tell a story, share an emotion, or just flat-out vent in total anonymity. Teachers avoid sharing real experiences or true feelings with each other on social media, in fear that a parent, principal or student might see it! Well here, your identity is never revealed and there’s no way for anyone to criticize you or judge you. Readers can react, keep scrolling, or share their own, no comments allowed. It’s a “troll-free” environment!
The rules are simple…
- No racism, no insults, no vulgarity, no trolling, no advertising, no spam, no links, no names, no shaming, no hating. For more detailed rules, see our terms here.
- Feel free to share a funny story, an uplifting experience, a tough moment, something that frustrated you, or something that made you smile.
At the top of the Confession page, you’ll find a button “I WANT TO VENT!” Click on that, enter your confession in the box, hit the “I CONFESS” button, and voilà! You’ll be able to see it once we make sure it’s not spam.
No, once a confession is submitted & published, it doesn’t get removed unless it gets flagged as spam. Don’t worry, it’s anonymous anyway!
No worries! We’re just making sure it’s not spam before it goes live. We do our best to review them as quickly as it’s humanly possible. If you post something over the weekend, then we’ll get to it the following week. We’re not robots, and we take the weekends off!
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Work With Us
We no longer pay for article submissions on our website. However, if you’re a serious writer looking for a part-time or full-time position as a contributor to Bored Teachers, we’re looking for passionate people with an interest in creating quality content for educators or journalistic content about education, on a regular basis. See our Careers page for more info.
Yes! We give out $200 to the best video submission each month. Winners will be selected at the end of every month, must be at least 18 years of age, and must have a valid PayPal account in order to receive their reward. Winners will be contacted by email at the address associated with their user account and must respond confirming a valid PayPal email address within 14 days of being notified.
If you have a series of videos you’ve produced related to education, DIY, or the teaching profession, please contact our Creative Content Development team at: info@boredteachers.com.