Classroom Management (SPED-friendly) Motivation (KAT) Gamification Description
ClassDojo is a school communication platform that teachers, students, and families use every day to build close-knit communities by sharing what’s being learned in the classroom home through photos, videos, and messages. Students and parents are also able to log onto the site to monitor behavior and discover areas of improvement. This platform allows students to take ownership of their behavior in a fun way. Students are able to log on and create their own avatar, talk with friends, and track their data. Class Dojo works by awarding (or taking away) points for certain behaviors. Teachers is to document the day in class and share that with students families via a web browser so that nearly any device can access the content.
Teachers are able to use their smartphone or tablets to take pictures and videos in the classroom to share using ClassDojo. This could be a photo of a completed piece of work with grades, a video of a student explaining a task, or perhaps a hypothesis written for a science lab.
Teachers can assign activities to students in the form of videos, test, images, or drawings. When students submit the work, it is then approved by the teacher before being published on the profile, which can then be seen by the family. These tasks are then saved and logged, following the student from grade to grade, to provide a broad overview of progress.
Features- Track class points and individual student points
- Generate reports and dive into the analytics, viewing the attendance report or whole-class behavior metrics
- Post images, videos, and messages for parents and guardians to see what's happening in class
- View multiple student accounts, ideal for families with more than one child at the same school
Affordances- Directly communicate with the entire class, individual students, and parents.
- Stories are instantly updating streams of pictures and videos from the school day.
- Easy access via the website or the iOS and Android app
- Message is either as an email or an in-app message, and parents can decide how they wish to be contacted
- Help teachers and parents support students' growth through goal-setting, formative assessment
Limitations- Behavior point system could prove problematic if used punitively and/or publicly
Educator Usage
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Web browsers (Latest Chrome, Safari, Edge), Mobile & Tablet
Other Resources
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