ClassDojo, a teaching, managing, and communication tool for schools

Description: ClassDojo is a platform for communication and classroom management between teachers, students, and parents. It provides a virtual space where teachers can assign tasks, send reminders, display schedules, give feedback, track student progress, and more, while students can upload their work. Parents can stay updated on their child's progress through notifications and messages from teachers. For classroom settings, ClassDojo provides useful functionalities such as playing background music, arranging groups, and even measuring classroom noise. The platform also offers instant translation in more than 30 languages. ClassDojo is available for free and does not require an account to access basic features, although signing up offers additional benefits and customisation options. It is available in browser and app forms. ClassDojo was developed by Sam Chaudhary and Liam Don.

Evaluation: ClassDojo is a valuable tool for classroom management and communication between all stakeholders involved in the teaching and learning process. For teachers, it can be a time-saving platform that helps manage virtually any task. Unfortunately, it seems to target exclusively early-age education, since adolescents might feel infantilised using an app that rewards positive behaviour, contains colourful funny characters—or “monsters”—and allows guardians/parents to be so easily in touch with their teachers. The interface is intuitive, and the app can be used in different languages.

Cost: Free with registration for teachers.

Respect for privacy Privacy evaluations indicate how a tool handles personal data collection, storage, and sharing, including GDPR compliance and security measures, among others. The ICT-REV team provides them for informational purposes, reflecting our best understanding at the time of review, but assumes no legal responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of these evaluations and encourages users to conduct their own assessments: High. ClassDojo mainly collects personal data to improve services, although it shares user data with some third parties, yet without selling or renting it for business purposes. Moreover, personal information collected from students is never used for behaviorally targeted advertising to students and is erased in case of account inactivity after 12 months. Interestingly, ClassDojo has a two-tier privacy policy, where privacy guarantees for pupils are more comprehensive than for teachers. Its privacy policy notice is extensive and easy to understand, at least if focusing on the “Basically,” or summary sections. ClassDojo complies with GDPR. See more here.

Type Of Interaction: Whole class,

Content: Website/other users supply, You supply,

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