When multiple people at the same school are using AOM, something powerful happens: you start building a shared picture of how students at your institution respond to this curriculum. An institutional plan makes that possible by connecting everyone's data, lowering costs, and giving your school the tools to coordinate across departments.
The biggest reason isn't cost (though it does cost less). It's knowledge.
When instructors use AOM individually, each person sees their own class results in isolation. An institutional plan connects those results across your school, so you can see patterns: which topics resonate with your student population, how outcomes compare across departments, and how engagement changes over time. That shared knowledge makes everyone better at using the platform.
The practical benefits stack up too. Institutional pricing drops the per-person cost significantly. Your school's branding appears on marketing materials, registration pages, and evaluation pages. And department-level organization means each area of your school can manage its own classes while still contributing to the bigger picture.
When 10 or more people at the same school are subscribed individually, we will reach out to let everyone know the school could benefit from a shared plan. We track subscriptions by email domain, and when the threshold is hit we will send all the subscribers at your school a celebratory email and let them know how they could benefit by upgrading to an institutional subscription.
That said, if an institutional account is right for your school, you don't have to wait for our reaching out threshold. Any school can start an institutional plan at any time by emailing support@artopeningminds.org.
Everything individual subscribers already have, plus:
If people at your school were already individual subscribers, they won’t lose anything. Their class history and evaluation data will carry over. We also add up all the remaining subscription time across every individual subscriber at your school and convert it to a dollar-value credit on the school's first institutional invoice so you are not paying twice for any instructors.
