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. Note: This app was originally reviewed for iPad/iPhone. Some differences might apply. Amazon rating: Guidance Suggested

• 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)

• 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

• 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