ClassDojo to Apptegy
I have used ClassDojo flawlessly for the past 10ish years. Apptegy makes it difficult to find a parent to a child to message them individually. (You can’t search by the child’s name to get to the family.) Giving points in ClassDojo was simple by just tapping a student’s name/avatar. Apptegy makes it very difficult by to scrolling down a list, checking a name, and choosing “add” and selecting points. As far as I know, I cannot take attendance in Apptegy, so selecting all students for points means I need to unselect students every time. Another very frustrating components is navigating the app. I made a class, but my messages aren’t included in my class, so I have to go in and out of that area of the app. Adding pictures is also very challenging as I have to write a description for every photo or choose AI to write for me (which describes the photo in a very silly way). Lastly, the amount of clicks/touches it takes to navigate the app just takes up an absurd amount of time. (Question: Like ClassDojo, can I see when a parent translates my message to their home language?) Suggestion: Call the app the same name for teachers, parents, and students, so there is no confusion.
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New to the app
I like the app but I really wish that we could schedule messages, not just announcements, to parents. It would make my teacher life so much better. I have missed out on so many updates because of this. Scheduling messages to go out when you get new information for future events is just so convenient. I also wish that we could turn off read receipts.
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One Stop Shop for Communication
Apptegy is a wonderful product that has many elements of communication in one place. Highly recommend!
Not the best
App keeps crashing, notifications don’t always come through, sometimes when notifications do come through they are hours or even days late, and this platform in a pain to get a large number of students students in a room since there is not an option for students to join a room themselves.
Horrible to use as educator and parent.
As an educator and parent, this app is horrible. As a teacher, it continues to crash when I try to edit a post, it doesn’t show notifications when I have messages, it is not easy to find a parent for a specific student because the students name is not listed or you see siblings first and not your student, you can only post a limited number of photos and must title each photo, it takes forever to upload photos, you cannot easily archive or group messages from the prior year, I have extra kids with my class for A&H/specials only and since those teacher added a new group to my account those students parents are added to my message roster and now I have to decipher which parents are mine to send groups messages which is difficult since parents have different last names and you can not see student names easily. I have also tried to download a transcript of a message thread between a parent and it is terrible- it puts it in a spreadsheet and you can’t read anything from a message or print it to read.
As a parent, this site crashes and needs updates almost weekly for the last year, I hardly ever get notification when there is a feed update or new message and I have notifications turned on, it is also difficult to save photos sent via the message part of the app and photos don’t always load into the app clearly depending on the teachers phone type, it is also very hard to find a previous post in the feed on your phone.
This app is missing sooooo much that was beneficial for teachers and adults that Dojo had- posting an upcoming event with alerts for parents (not on a calendar, just an event happening to note), posting 20 pictures at once, easy to download message transcript, randomizer for student selection, timers to use in class, calming music to play for transitions or work time, and so much more.
I wish we were still using Class Dojo. This was a terrible move!
I would give zero starts I possible.
As a parent, this site crashes and needs updates almost weekly for the last year, I hardly ever get notification when there is a feed update or new message and I have notifications turned on, it is also difficult to save photos sent via the message part of the app and photos don’t always load into the app clearly depending on the teachers phone type, it is also very hard to find a previous post in the feed on your phone.
This app is missing sooooo much that was beneficial for teachers and adults that Dojo had- posting an upcoming event with alerts for parents (not on a calendar, just an event happening to note), posting 20 pictures at once, easy to download message transcript, randomizer for student selection, timers to use in class, calming music to play for transitions or work time, and so much more.
I wish we were still using Class Dojo. This was a terrible move!
I would give zero starts I possible.
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