Community reviews for ClassDojo

i love it.

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This is a very engaging and positive way to build classroom culture and communicate with parents. it fairly easy to use and they have solid resources for teachers new to the app and for communicating with families.

I love using class dojo in my classroom! It has been very beneficial in aiding in my classroom management skills and helping to redirect my students. I like that the program is user friendly and and very colorful and engaging for the students. I believe this will help my teaching because I understand the behaviors of my students better and can offer supports to redirect the behaviors and celebrate the positive!

All students love this app and take it seriously! I absolutely love using class dojo in my classroom to assist with classroom management and aid in parent-teacher communication.

It is an outstanding tool and I highly recommend any teacher who is struggling with classroom management to try it out! It is easy to set up and to use. You can use it on an iPad, phone, or a computer. I have used my phone to give them point and it appears on my laptop. Class Dojo also has a great support staff and you can find other resources to help you through this program.

Class Dojo has made communicating with parents stress free! I have developed such a positive relationship with parents by using this website/app. Since Class Dojo, I find myself notifying parents of more positive behaviors, than negative. Students love that!

Overall, I would say this is an easy method of keeping track of student behavior if you see multiple classes throughout the day. A classroom teacher would have an easier time of giving and taking points rather than my way of just taking them. I find that as students reach 5th or 6th grade, this form of classroom management becomes less useful. Whether this is a reflection of my student population, I'm not certain. There are options to engage parents, which would be very useful if our parent's were more interested in keeping track of their student's behavior. This would most likely be implemented in a school-wide fashion.

Initial set up requires that you input each student's name individually in each class you create. This can take awhile if you have a lot of students but once the class is created it is very easy to edit if students add or drop a class. My only advice is that this product won't have as much student "buy in" much past the 8th grade level. I teach 7th graders and my former students (now 8th graders) love to come in and check out the Wall of Fame to see how classes have performed.

I really like that students can receive immediate feedback in class on their behavior. I also like that the website comes with lots of resources- everything from avatar cutouts to parent letters and invitations. It really comes down to how a teacher implements it- you have to be consistent, you have to use it along with your school's behavior system as a supplement, and you have to communicate to kids what you are doing. We "practiced" with it a lot in class to begin with- lots of roll-playing out good and bad scenarios and what would happen to your Class Dojo avatar if that happened, etc. Changing the goal at the end...whether it be a class party or 5 extra minutes of recess or everyone reaches 20 Dojo points...is good to do on a regular basis as students will get bored with it.