Just no
This app is not good. I used dojo for 10 years before our district was forced to switch to this and it’s such a sad app in comparison. Drab colors, the messages don’t fully show and parents most likely won’t click them to see the rest. Photo uploads take FOREVER and then parents can’t even open them. Photos sent from parents to teacher and vice versa through the messaging feature don’t open or show on mobile. On the desktop you can’t see them all. It will say 14+ photos and only let you click on 4 of them. To see them you have to manually download all of them (no one will be doing that!) can’t post videos on the main announcement page. As others mentioned, it’s hard to find the parents to message them because it says their first and last name but not the child’s name so you have to go figure out which guardian goes with the child you are messaging about. On dojo it would say “Sally’s parent” so you knew easily. Also, I have parents connected to me from previous years which makes it really confusing as well. I don’t like this app at all and I know the parents don’t because they barely log in and read the messages or complain about it crashing and freezing. ALSO PLEASE ADD EVENTS FEATURE! Dojo had it and it was so much easier to schedule all the days off or events so parents could see them.
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Horrible
Literally one of the worst communication apps for school. I miss being able to use Band so much. Not having a calendar feature for Theater is ridiculous, can’t message a group of 6 or more people, you post an update for students and parents to see AND THEY CANT COMMENT! So you get the same question 15 times. The students just made their own Band app group instead and keep up with each other instead and don’t want to use the app because it does not function well. School districts are idiots for choosing this platform.
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Run away from this app
My district is forcing this on all buildings across the district. This is such a clunky app. It’s not user friendly. Lacks appeal for elementary schools. It lacks all of the things that make Class Dojo a great app. If I could give it less than a zero rating, I would. Promises are made about new features, but no timeline is given. Run from this app.
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Not Great
This app is not user friendly, doesn’t look nice or appealing, and is just overall poorly made. It’s inconvenient for staff and parents.
Great App for Schools!
I use this for constantly posting on social media for our organization. It’s easy to use and is consistently improving features!
Terrible
Doesn’t give notifications (even though that setting is turned on) so you miss time sensitive information, such as telling a student to ride car vs bus, etc.
Hate that we are forced by our district to use it.
Hate even more that it’s the same complaints over and over and the developers have done nothing to address this.
What a waste of school funds!
Hate that we are forced by our district to use it.
Hate even more that it’s the same complaints over and over and the developers have done nothing to address this.
What a waste of school funds!
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Not Great
All I’m asking for is to have a calendar function on this platform.
I’m 25 and chronically online, this app stinks
This app is prehistoric. I miss Remind. I have checked my notifications settings a million times and I still am not notified every time I receive a message. It goes to my work email which I don’t check after work. All my messages are difficult to locate. I’m 25 and chronically online. I can’t even figure out this app. Imagine the older teachers who don’t use technology on a regular basis.
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Unreliable
Frustrating and unreliable
FIX IT NOW
It keeps looping into the same message again and again and it won’t dare work. It keeps glitching and glitching. Why do schools even use this app?
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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Poor quality - possibly AI coded
App changes often. So often I wonder if it’s coded by AI. Changes are frustrating and glitchy
Go with any other messaging app
My district switched to this app from Remind, and it has been a disaster. It is not user friendly, and many messages get lost in the wireless abyss. I have always had good communication with the parents of my students, this year I have not.
Buggy
The app freezes a lot. I have to use my desktop to post across multiple classrooms.
Worst app ever!
My school district made the foolish mistake of purchasing this app. I only get notification of messages on the hour and sometimes at that point I miss a lot of them and it’s difficult to create small group conversations. Overall, it is awful would not recommend anyone.
Not great
My school used to use Remind and then switched to thrill share. It’s so much more complicated to use and does not work as well. I don’t like that I can’t just added parents with their phone numbers myself like I used to be able to. It takes longer to send photographs
Do NOT use this for your school!!
This app and platform as a whole is a disaster and in our 2 years of using it, they’ve fixed one (1) thing we’ve asked for. You will always and forever have hundreds of notifications if you teach multiple classes because there is no way to clear out all notifications without taking hours to do so. Our teachers hate it, our parents hate it, and if our students used it, pretty sure they’d hate it too!!
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Horrible app
This app is absolutely horrible to use! We are required to use it for our school district…. We need to upgrade to something better. This has way too many glitches.
Awful
This is a terrible platform. It is difficult to use. Parents get kicked off. They cannot read teachers messages. It is not user-friendly and it is very difficult to figure all of the ins and outs of using it. I hate that they made us get rid of ClassDojo, which was a perfect app for everything that we needed!
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Waste of taxpayer dollars
This app is a less functional and less attractive Class Dojo.
