How to Use Class Dojo (Download the app on your phone, great advantages)

Sign up

  1. Go to Classdojo.com
  2. Click the “sign up as a teacher button
  3. Put in your email address and make up a password you can remember
  4. Save this URL
  5. go to “ teacher login” any time you use Classdojo
  6. if you are logged into your email, you will never have to log into Class Dojo because it is linked. (in Google Chrome you just need to type in ClassDojo Teacher--once you click on it, it should put you right into your classes.)

Set up a class

  1. Click on “add your class”
  2. Pick a class icon
  3. Give your class a name (ELA-7)
  4. Put the year
  5. Import student names
  6. Go to e-school / List students / ID # only
  7. Highlight students / COPY
  8. Open Google Spreadsheet / Paste (Ctrl V)
  9. Remove the Id numbers
  10. Copy names (Ctrl C)
  11. Go to Class Dojo to import names (Class Dojo will put them in as first name first)
  12. edit class
  13. students
  14. click the button “copy / paste” (to import a list of students)
  15. paste names from spreadsheet (right mouse click /paste)
  16. Delete any part of the student name you do not want (a second last name, middle name, etc)
  17. Add, Remove, or Change Behaviors (Positive or Negative)
  18. Go to Edit Class
  19. Click on “Behaviors”
  20. click on any behavior to edit it or click on the “plus sign” to make a new one
  21. You can change the name of the behavior or change the icon
  22. (tip) do not create too many because it becomes overwhelming
  23. Think about PBIS (Ready to Learn, Respectful, Responsible)because these could cover many behaviors.

Using the behaviors

  1. You can call on students randomly (get rid of those popsicle sticks or cards with student names on them that sit on your desk and take space)
  2. You can award multiple students or the whole class
  3. Click “award multiple students”
  4. Select students below or Select all students (this is great when they are working in groups)
  5. Click on the blue button “Give award” (positive or negative)
  1. Print parent invitation or email / phone
  2. Go to Edit Class
  3. Click on the BLUE button “Print parent invitation”
  4. Save it somewhere on your computer
  5. This opens in PDF and then you print, give to students
  6. It will have student code and parent code
  7. Give extra credit if they get their parent signed up (This is a good way to communicate with parents instantly)
  1. Connect teachers to your class
  2. Go to Edit Class
  3. Click the “Teacher” button
  4. Enter a teacher’s email

How and Why to use the Attendance

  1. Go into a class by clicking on a class on the home screen
  2. Click on the attendance button
  3. click on the green circle once to mark an absence
  4. click on the green circle twice to mark a tardy (I do not bother with this one, your choice)
  5. WHY mark a student absent?
  6. When you give awards to the whole class, the absent student does not get an award

Advantages and Disadvantages of the timer

  1. Advantages
  2. can be used as a countdown (click countdown and set the minutes, then start the timer)
  3. so students can see how much time there is to finish a task
  4. puts pressure on students to stay on task
  5. helps the teacher monitor time
  6. Timer can be used as time by just starting the clock (I don’t use it this way, and haven’t found a reason for this)
  7. Disadvantages
  8. at first it becomes a distraction
  9. students go off task talking about their avatar
  10. some students in groups cannot see the timer

Reports

  1. Click on “Reports”
  2. generate behavior reports for any date range
  3. View it as a spreadsheet (great way to print it out for the gradebook)
  4. Look at attendance

Class Story

  1. Click on the class story icon
  2. Type anything about your class
  3. take a photo right there in class and upload it immediately
  4. take photos to store on your phone and upload later.
  5. Once a parent views it, it notifies you right away.
  6. Click on the 3 small circles to the right if you want to edit or delete a post. (on the left is a heart that says like.)

Groups

You can now give points to a whole group of students. I group students by seating chart. I create my seating chart and the 2 or 4 students sitting next to each other become partners or a group of 4. (really think out your seating chart to make harmonious groups)

  1. click on the GROUP icon
  2. click on “add your first group”
  3. it will bring you to your class and just click on the students you want to group together
  4. after your first group is created, you will click the plus + sign
  5. name your group, on top (I do it by numbers)
  6. award points, click on group points
  7. to edit or delete a group click on the group, then the wheel to the left.

Link for a refresher for today

Another Link to help (Teacher. Parent or Student)

Another Link

Class Dojo resources

Session evaluation link: bit.ly/show-eval