Jostens announces enhancements to Yearbook+ digital yearbook

Jostens announced enhancements to its exclusive Yearbook+ digital product, adding the ability to submit their portrait pictures directly to the yearbook. The company says, due to COVID-19, getting student portraits for the yearbook has been especially challenging. Each Jostens customer using the new portrait feature in Yearbook+ has access to a management site where the yearbook adviser has real-time access to review submitted photos, to set submission deadlines, and to customize the visuals of the experience for their school.

“In this unprecedented school year of hybrid schedules and distance learning, it’s been challenging for schools to gather content for their yearbooks,” said Tammy Whitaker, Vice President and General Manager of Jostens yearbook division.  “With these new Yearbook+ features, Jostens can now help schools get the photos they need directly from the students themselves.”

Launched earlier this school year, Yearbook+ offers an interactive yearbook experience by allowing students to upload additional photos to their yearbooks, which are then digitally “unlocked” by scanning each student’s portrait picture in the printed yearbook with their mobile device.

“With our kids on varying schedules and our communities still wrestling with the impacts of COVID-19, it’s almost impossible to get every student’s picture taken through the traditional school photo day experience,” said Stephanie Novello, yearbook adviser at Lenape High School in Medford Township NJ.  “Yearbook+ will provide a much more efficient, easy way to gather these pictures in this unique year, ensuring all students are represented in the yearbook.”