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ClassDojo

Mindprint Rating

Tags

Social-Emotional Learning All Ages iOS App

Skills

Self-regulation Organization Attention

Mindprint Expert Review

Pros

  • App has clean interface and uses cute animations.
  • Parents and students can conveniently keep up with classroom announcements as well as monitor behavior through a single interface.
  • Communication can be for the whole class, a sub-group, or confidential between teacher and an individual student or parents.

Considerations

  • Teachers will need to effectively manage student and parent expectations about the frequency of comments and not to over-react to feedback.
  • Could encourage over-monitoring and reporting on students' actions and behavior.

Mindprint Expert Review

Class Dojo is a free service for teachers to communicate more effectively with parents and students, and is an effective tool to motivate student attention and good behavior. Teachers create a virtual classroom, assigning a cute character to each child and providing each student and parent an account. Teachers use Class Dojo to track attendance, record student behavior, instant message parents, and share videos, photos and announcements with individual students and their parents or with the entire class. Parents and students can check the class story (photo, video or message), view student awards or positive feedback, and be alerted when a student "needs work". Teachers, parents and students can message each other through the application. Students earn points from their teacher for good performance and behavior, and teachers determine how to appropriately reward students when they reach a certain number of points. Reports reflect measures of students’ Perseverance, Teamwork, Leadership, Resourcefulness and Curiosity. The app has a clean, colorful interface and can be integrated with smartboards, tablets, phones, iPhones or iPads. This app can be an effective way to provide information on student behavior and progress to parents on a regular basis so teachers, parents and students can be partners in developing a student's classroom habits.

Academic Benefits

Improves academic skills

  • Provides sufficient and varied types of practice problems to maximize understanding and generalization of the targeted skill/concept
  • Manufacturer claims alignment with Common Core/Known Standards
  • Presents educational concepts accurately
  • Explains answers so students can learn from mistakes
  • Better for teaching the skill to new or struggling learners
  • Better for practicing or refreshing the skill
  • Skills are practiced through authentic, meaningful problems (not just rote practice)

Fun

Engaging for the Mindprint recommended age range

  • Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
  • Subject matter and problems are relevant, interesting and authentic to students
  • Visually appealing to children in the target age range
  • Provides virtual rewards or incentives after meeting specified goals or objectives
  • Provides a "break activity" between academic problem sets
  • Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
  • Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option

Easy to Use

Understandable for children in the Mindprint recommended age range

  • Has a free or trial version
  • Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
  • Provides an age-appropriate tutorial/first time users can work independently
  • Student should be able to use independently after first use
  • Has a multi-player option to foster in-person collaboration or cooperation
  • Multiple users can save a profile
  • Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
  • Can play without sound and not distract others
  • Students can save work between sessions
  • Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
  • Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
  • Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
  • Overall - Easy to use

Manufacturer Description

Ready to build an amazing classroom community?

ClassDojo is a beautiful, safe, and simple communication app for teachers, parents, and students.

* Teachers can encourage students for any skill, like “Working hard” and “Teamwork”
* Teachers can bring parents into the classroom experience by sharing photos, videos, and announcements
* Teachers can also safely and instantly message with any parent
* Parents see their child’s updates at home, as well as a stream of photos and videos from school

ClassDojo helps teachers build a positive classroom culture by encouraging students and communicating with parents.

ClassDojo is free for everyone, and K-12 teachers, parents, students, and school leaders in over 180 countries have joined. It works on all devices, like iPhones, iPads, tablets, phones, and smartboards.

"I’ve divided my time teaching as B.C. and A.C.: before ClassDojo, and after ClassDojo. I never want to go back!" — Jen E., an elementary school teacher :)

See how much people love ClassDojo at: https://www.classdojo.com/wall-of-love/

Join the ClassDojo community today!


ClassDojo is completely free for parents, teachers, and students!


Optional: parents may subscribe to ClassDojo Beyond School for extra features for at-home use.

A charge will be added to your Apple ID account at the end of the 7-day free trial. Depending on your subscription choice, this may be $7.99 monthly, $39.99 for 6 months or $59.99 for 1 year (this pricing is for the US; pricing in other countries may vary). The subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period at the same rate ($7.99/$39.99/$59.99 depending on the subscription term). You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your App Store account settings after purchase (on the App Store home screen, tap on the top right account icon).

Read our Terms of Service here:
https://www.classdojo.com/terms

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https://www.classdojo.com/privacy