Star Week 5: ClassDojo

Hello everybody!! 

I’m Marta Saura and this different week and as all my team members I’m in the role of the star.

The task for this session, as you would already know, consisted on choosing one online tool and evaluate it using two different tolls which will consider amongst other things the app´s privacy, security, functionality, and accessibility.

In my case, I chose “ClassDojo” as the online tool. It is known as “a communication app for the classroom. It connects teachers, parents, and students who use it to share photos, videos, and messages through the school day” according to the Common Sense website.

Thanks to the first tool for evaluating: “The rubric for eLearning Tool Evaluation https://teaching.uwo.ca/pdf/elearning/Rubric-foreLearning-Tool-Evaluation.pdf” I could observe the following strengths and weaknesses.

 

Likewise, the second evaluating tool:  https://privacy.commonsense.org/ brings the opportunity to investigate "privacy policies so that parents and teachers can make smart choices about the learning tools they use with their children and students, and so that schools and districts can participate in improving the technology used in K–12 classrooms". Finally, the results were:

And the principal security aspects of ClassDojo are:

Data collection: 60%

Data sharing: 85%

Data security: 90%

Data rights: 85%

Data sold: 75%

Data safety: 60%

ADS & tracking: 90%

Parental consent: 90%

School purpose: 90%

If you are more interested in seeing the details of its evaluation, please click here and be sure about what you are using for your education:  https://privacy.commonsense.org/evaluation/classdojo