Absolutely terrible!
I have been using Dojo for almost ten years and I miss it so much! Our district switched to Apptegy/Thrillshare/Connect this year and it is terrible. So glitchy and missing so many of the features of dojo that have been critical to my classroom management and communication. We were promised automatic translation and it won’t translate at all in a district with a large Spanish speaking population. Behavior tracking is tedious and not at all fun for the kids. There is no “buy-in” for them. We miss the cute monsters and fun sounds. Also missing the events feature. Being able to schedule classroom events and announcements and automatically send reminders is really hurting family engagement in my class. Very upset with this app.
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Pretty Awful
The most sensible things are missing for this communication tool. who needs a calendar, right? The app consistently freezes when trying to add or remove users to your room. The app gives an emoji and comment option, but those don’t work at all. Outside of being able to private message, this is a one way communication tool with very few options.
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Response from developer
We really appreciate your feedback. Please contact our Support team at support@apptegy.com so that we can better understand the issues you're describing and help troubleshoot along with you. You're describing bugs we haven't encountered before, but our team is investigating these aspects of the platform and conducting testing to clear up any potential issues.
Ugh
This app is a disservice to teachers. If your school or district is considering adopting Rooms as its primary form of home-school communication, DON’T.
Teachers already have more than enough on their plates without being forced to rely on a communication platform that makes a basic part of our job more complicated, frustrating, and inefficient than it needs to be. A school communication app should make it easier to connect with families—not create another layer of problems teachers have to troubleshoot and manage.
When districts choose a platform like this, they need to seriously consider the experience of the people who are expected to use it every single day. “It technically works” is not the same thing as being intuitive, reliable, or teacher-friendly.
Home-school communication is too important to be handled by an app that creates more work instead of reducing it. There are far better options available. Teachers deserve tools that support their work, not tools they have to fight with just to communicate with families.
If you are a district administrator researching communication platforms: please listen to the teachers who will actually have to use them before signing a contract.
Teachers already have more than enough on their plates without being forced to rely on a communication platform that makes a basic part of our job more complicated, frustrating, and inefficient than it needs to be. A school communication app should make it easier to connect with families—not create another layer of problems teachers have to troubleshoot and manage.
When districts choose a platform like this, they need to seriously consider the experience of the people who are expected to use it every single day. “It technically works” is not the same thing as being intuitive, reliable, or teacher-friendly.
Home-school communication is too important to be handled by an app that creates more work instead of reducing it. There are far better options available. Teachers deserve tools that support their work, not tools they have to fight with just to communicate with families.
If you are a district administrator researching communication platforms: please listen to the teachers who will actually have to use them before signing a contract.
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One of the Worst Apps
This is by far one of the worst apps I’ve ever used for communication I schools. Closes out or resets all the time, when trying to edit a message it closes out completely, freezes a lot, and just not ideal for fast quality communication.
New update still not good
I was hoping the new update would fix some of the issues. One issue is when you go to crop the image for Instagram it only gives you the square option in the app. If you use the desktop version, you get the other crop options, including portrait and landscape. Additionally, the times are off when it tells you when something is scheduled and when something has posted. They must be using their time zone and not whichever one is set for the account. Again, no problem on the desktop version. Lastly, when you try to do alternative text, if you copy from something else say a list of names or detail, detailed important information included on the flyer, it will not allow you to paste in the app, but again, no problem on the desktop.
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