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This is amazing
As a kid in the classroom and a home I use this a lot and never want to stop I love all the ideas however I want t suggest to add more profile monsters please .my class and I would very much like to also have dances on here for when the whole class points gets to 1 thousand .but I would definitely recommend this t people .buy this it will motivate you to do more god to others that you work with in school and play with at home 😃😃😃😃♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️Show lessvslicorn2.0
Revolutionized my classroom
This program has revolutionized my teaching style. I use this program as a point system in my class. When a student has a certain number of points then s/he may sit in a certain chair. I also use this program to individually correspond with my parents daily regarding behavior challenges on particular students; but most importantly, I push out at up to 3 good behavior messages to my well behaved kids, so that I can give an extra thanks to these kids for being such great students. (Which in turn helps my classroom climate”). I also love using the Class Stories aspect of this program. The photos keep the parents feeling connected and I have a pictorial record of my class activities. Dojo offers all this and more free of charge plus they have no ads! This program has helped me improve my classroom climate. Thank you for the use of this program.Show lessLynda Louise
Disappointed
We used Dojo at a different school and the difference was huge. My first experience was really great. We only saw only items that were related to our specific classroom and those that were sent by the principal and vice principal or reminders that were sent out for the whole school. This school We see every post for every class whether or not it is related to our classroom. Also purchasing the premium program so you can do dojo points at home was pretty useless. It does not interact with the schools character development process. So basically you make up the rules on your own and you have to find incentives to prompt your student into the behavior that you want your student to have. It was not worth the amount of effort it takes to develop a program at home that may conflict what is being done at school. Also there is no way to check on what your student is getting rewards for. All I know is that on Friday he gets to spend his Dojo points to buy trinkets from the “Dojo Store” or change his login Dojo character. This program has so much potential, but it is riddled with missed opportunities for parents to be informed and included in their students learning experience. Very, very disappointed.Show lessSassy3ddawn
Developer Response
Hello, thank you for providing us with this feedback! Could you please also send us an email at hello@classdojo.com with this feedback? We are very passionate about making ClassDojo the best tool it can be and would love to hear more of your experiences!Mixed review
I’ve used this app for 3 years now. As a parents I see a lot of room for improvement. 1. I am not notified via text and no way I have found to be notified- I am very busy and I don’t enjoy needing to go to yet 1 more app to look at my kids progress or homework etc. adds more work for me and not worth it. 2. It’s very elementary. As my son moved to upper elementary - they still use it but now there’s no progress on him- they find it’s too beneath the grade level which I agree on. 3. I like the anonymity other apps gives me and still allows me to communicate w other parents - like to remind them it’s the teacher bday etc. this app offer nothing like that. 4. I have to have the app! I have plenty of storage space now but some parents don’t! And I hear complaints often that they don’t have room for yet another app- other programs allows communication via text and no need for the app! They send sms! My kids are 3rd and 4th grade. This apps has potential to grow w the students yet it has not!! Please consider adding features for age progression. And I’m trying the at home feature- would have been great when my kids were younger but at their ages the monsters and points don’t mean near as much as the cool
Games they could be playing. Over all- the younger the kid the better and only communication with teachers and no way to make a play date w a classmate even between students! Please consider adding features !Show lessGunMik
Overall okay
This is the second app of its kind I’ve had for school-related stuff. My kids had Seesaw in years prior at a former school, and I really enjoyed that I only saw info that pertained to my kids in particular, unless it was something the whole school needed to see in Seesaw.
In dojo, I see everything from every teacher, it seems. I also wish I had the ability to unfollow some people, as in instagram, in order to not see some of the overzealous school personnel who share things that have nothing to do with my kids whatsoever. With 4 kids in 3 different schools, who each have their own list of extracurriculars, and my spouse and I having our own multiple responsibilities outside of home and work... The unnecessary info sharing is just tedious, which leads me to ignoring the app and therefore occasionally missing vital information, as it seems to be the elementary school’s primary form of communication.Show lessAmanda Megan
Honest app review
This app is amazing !!!!!!! When I am at home or at work and my daughter is at school and I am curious about how her day is going, all I have to do is open this app and look up her report for the day. Her teachers will mark her for either being really good, neutral, or disruptive, which allows me to know how my child’s school day is going. They do this throughout the entire day. The teachers will also post pictures of the class and what they are doing throughout the day which is always fun to see. This app also gives me the ability to communicate directly with her teacher, without having to send an email. Not only does it allow me to communicate with her teacher, it also gives me the ability to message anybody that is working with my child in the school. Whether it be a counselor, the nurse, the principal, anyone that works in the school, I am able to communicate with. This app was a complete game changer for me. My daughter is developmentally delayed and this app has literally given me so much peace of mind I don’t know what I would do without it. This has taken away so much stress that I have about wondering how my child is doing at school during the day and I’m very grateful for this app. I think it should be made available to every single school in the whole world. THANKS DOJO!!!!Show lessSerapheenie
Notification problems and no one is interested
When the app works it’s fantastic. Can be used as an amazing communication and reward tool. However when something goes wrong no one is interested. This is now the second time Class Dojo has stopped sending notifications. First time I reported and worked with the help desk team it was sorted within a couple of days. This second time. It’s been down 9 weeks. It takes 3 days for anyone to respond and when they do it’s the same “delete and re -install”. “Log out and log back in” it’s impacting more than half of the parents at school which means we have to log in regularly to see what’s happening. Miss urgent messages or details about what has been happening in our child’s day. It seems sorting notifications out is not a priority and nobody is interested in sorting it out or listening to the impact it has.Show lessJensxxxxxop
Scheduled Messages
I really LOVE the ability to schedule when direct messages will be sent out to parents. This way to can type something up at night but not have it send until 8:30am the next morning.
Would it be possible to have this feature for when it came to posting on class stories too? This way I could type up an announcement late at night if I’ve forgotten and have it send the next morning.
Love the app so far though!Show lessBambi__91
Perfecttttt!!
Whoever created this app deserves a massive pat on the back.. This app is amazing, I love that’s I’m able to keep in contact with my sons teacher during the day and at the click of a button I can look at the daily progress by looking at the amount of points he has collected or lost throughout the day. My 7 year old absolutely loves being able to create and recreate his little monster! I love that all communication is done by this app it’s such a handy little app!! Happy happy Mum 💜Show lesstdollasign9
Good idea, bad implementation
Classic case of an app designed by people who never use it.
Class Dojo is essentially a good idea, a reward system that parents and kids can monitor. But the app developers don’t seem to understand how or why people use it the real world. That’s the question they should ask.
If most parents are like me they want to see how many Dojos their child has got, but getting this takes 4-5 key presses...why?? Furthermore to doesn’t show anything more than the current week’s score and that gets reset every Monday.
You open the app on a screen that has two things - message teacher and Share ClassDojo. Surely the home screen would be better as a dashboard with your kids’ scores on a day and week basis, perhaps with an average weekly score as well, or comparison with the class average.
The designers ought to look at the Fitbit dashboard to see a really good implementation. Instead, the home screen is just a call to share the app, but honestly, with such poor UI design I wouldn’t bother.Show lessCarlF-UK
