ClassDojo

ClassDojo is a system where teachers can encourage students through giving points in different categories, both achievements, good behaviour and discipline.

URL: www.classdojo.com/

When is ClassDojo the right choice?
If one of your goals is to set basic rules in the classroom and track your student's classroom behaviour.

If you are tired of making your own register of the class every year, counting the red and black marks, or dates or percentages or whatever you were using in that notebook and answering the "How many have I got?" questions.

If you want a close connection with the parents, it is important for you to share your class' daily improvement - although you can fully use ClassDojo without it with a trick...

What are the strengths of it?
The monsters are really cute and the children can customize their own one in their account.

The display is whiteboard friendly, the teacher's rewarding is open, clear and it gives instant feedback (even visually and audibly if you prefer).

The teacher's rewarding and punishment system is fully customizable with values, icons and a short description. It is possible to track attendance and select multiple students.

The students can share their improvement with the parents in a digital portfolio.

There is a built-in chat function with the parents to share news, events, important announcement.

It is 100% free without any restriction or advertisement and the developers are improving and updating it continuously.

What are the weaknesses?
You cannot share an announcement with your group. You can send individual messages but you cannot share the homework with the students (just the parents).

What is the recommended age?
It is a comfortable and useful tracking system with a lot of additional tools like timer, random, goals, groups which can help the classroom work with any groups.

Most of its features are enjoyable mainly with smaller children like 4-10-year-olds but as a classroom tool, it can be used with teenagers as well. For a similar system aimed at teenagers and adults, see Classcraft.

How can it be customized?
While registering the students, the system randomly adds the monsters. Before the student customizes his avatar, its type can be changed.

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