Class Dojo real-time behavior feedback platform Apps get updates

<br /><div class="hq gt" id=":ip" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 15px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"></div><br /><div class="ii gt m1407d1cf4d83e409 adP adO" id=":od" style="direction: ltr; margin: 5px 15px 0px 0px; orphans: auto; padding-bottom: 5px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; z-index: 0;"><div id=":oc" style="overflow: hidden;"><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="119" src="http://c.classdojo.com/img/logo2.jpg" width="200" /></div><br /><a href="http://www.classdojo.com/">ClassDojo</a> is a free online system that helps teachers promote positive behavior in their classroom by letting them track and share student progress and positive behaviors and areas of concern. It's easy to use and many teachers who use it have seen positive outcomes from using it with their students.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhryqsZSw8i2HPJFS4gKZm8vGHv1HGjR0XyNwbKkF1jL1Wtkbs8SG-CtMJshCritnFKDjiy9Y6RH_veHT61ZHXb2k-wPGlVkAUKWSB3TN2azBXbW-rZklsSyNNOedCKpulbOEoQgkrsQ6fG/s1600/About+ClassDojo-102200.png"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhryqsZSw8i2HPJFS4gKZm8vGHv1HGjR0XyNwbKkF1jL1Wtkbs8SG-CtMJshCritnFKDjiy9Y6RH_veHT61ZHXb2k-wPGlVkAUKWSB3TN2azBXbW-rZklsSyNNOedCKpulbOEoQgkrsQ6fG/s400/About+ClassDojo-102200.png" /></a></div><br />They had launched an iOS app this past September, and an Android app after that, to help teachers be able to use their tool while moving around the room, and even access it when not in the classroom. They have just announced an update to their iOS and Android apps to make them even better and more useful for teachers and students.<br /><br /><br />The full press release is below:<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ClassDojo Mobilizes More Teachers to Build Students’ Character Anywhere with Version 2.0 of its Popular iOS and Android Apps</span></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ClassDojo 2.0 now lets teacher manage, edit, share and sync up their students’ behavior reports from their mobile devices </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SAN FRANCISCO – August 15th, 2013</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - Today, ClassDojo, the free behavior development platform for teachers, students , and parents, is launching a major update - version 2.0 of its mobile apps for iOS and Android. ClassDojo, already used by over 15 million teachers and students in over 80 countries worldwide, will now offer teachers the full suite of ClassDojo’s web functionality on mobile devices, including setting up and customizing their classes, taking attendance, viewing progress reports, and inviting other teachers.</span></div><br /><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Download the iOS app here: </span><a href="http://www.classdojo.com/ios" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.classdojo.com/ios</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and the Android app here: </span><a href="http://www.classdojo.com/android" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.classdojo.com/android</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div><br /><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The original ClassDojo app was intended to be a lightweight ‘remote control’ for the website, making it easy for teachers to give students positive feedback on their behavior in real-time within their classroom. There were significant limitations, including the inability to customize classes, view reports or even set up a class. In effect, the app made teachers somewhat dependent on the web application to fully manage their classrooms. ClassDojo’s new iOS and Android apps will offer the full set of ClassDojo’s experience.</span></div><br /><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now that roughly two in three teachers have a personal smart device, more teachers can access ClassDojo’s full set of experiences without using a laptop or desktop computer. For many teachers working at underfunded schools with limited school technology resources, this means for the first time they can use ClassDojo with their students to reinforce positive behaviors like persistence, curiosity, and teamwork - and indicates great promise for ClassDojo’s continued ubiquity.</span></div><br /><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The new version also allows teachers to give behavior feedback without needing to have a Wi-Fi connection (although they still need network coverage). This new feature meets one of teachers’ biggest needs: to be able to use ClassDojo in settings outside of the classroom - for example, in lunchrooms, the playground, on field trips, and even just in classrooms with poor Wi-Fi connections.</span></div><br /><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today’s news reflects the company’s continued learnings about the ed-tech market. Classroom adoption of mobile devices is growing quickly, as is evident with the recent news that Apple partnered with the Los Angeles Unified School District to provide students 640,000 iPads. Accordingly, the company has built out its mobile capabilities to allow its mobile development to parallel its web efforts.</span></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“For many teachers and in particular for students, education is now a ‘mobile first’ environment, and we’re excited that ClassDojo is leading the charge,” says Sam Chaudhary, co-founder of ClassDojo. “Our new mobile apps build upon our mission of helping teachers, parents, and students develop the behaviors and character strengths that are essential for lifetime success. Real-time reinforcement of positive behavior, especially when provided consistently across contexts, helps build the character strengths that influence students’ academic and lifetime success.”  </span></div><br /><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ClassDojo’s mission is to address the ‘other half of education’ that goes beyond just building good test scores, to actually helping students develop the character strengths that are essential for lifetime success. The company is a graduate of the ‘Y-combinator for education’, ImagineK12</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div><br /><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About ClassDojo:</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ClassDojo is a real-time behavior feedback platform used by millions of teachers, students and parents to build specific positive behaviors like persistence, curiosity and teamwork at school. It helps teachers solve the most painful problem they face teachers: improving student behavior. It enables teachers to easily conduct their lesson and improve student behavior by providing students with visual and audio feedback triggered using a smartphone, tablet, or computer; it engages parents and students to effect changes in behavior outside of the classroom as well. </span></div><br /><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About the founders:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sam Chaudhary worked as a high school teacher and McKinsey & Co education analyst, and has a degree in Economics from the University of Cambridge. Liam Don was an MMO game developer at Runescape (Jagex), and was doing a computer science PhD in Education Technology, which he left to start ClassDojo. ClassDojo was early-stage seed funded by the incubator ImagineK12.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div><div class="yj6qo ajU" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; outline: none; padding: 10px 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: 22px; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div class="yj6qo ajU" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; outline: none; padding: 10px 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: 22px; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div><div class="yj6qo ajU" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #222222; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; outline: none; padding: 10px 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: 22px; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></div></div></div>

Class Dojo real-time behavior feedback platform Apps get updates

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