The document summarizes several classroom-support websites and their key features and challenges. Class Dojo allows for communication with parents and tracking student behavior and points, while Google Classroom easily allows teachers to create classes and share assignments and feedback. Kahoot! is useful for assessing student knowledge through game-based quizzes, though it may be difficult for early grades who can't read or use devices. Nearpod engages students through interactive lessons on their own devices.
The document summarizes several classroom-support websites and their key features and challenges. Class Dojo allows for communication with parents and tracking student behavior and points, while Google Classroom easily allows teachers to create classes and share assignments and feedback. Kahoot! is useful for assessing student knowledge through game-based quizzes, though it may be difficult for early grades who can't read or use devices. Nearpod engages students through interactive lessons on their own devices.
The document summarizes several classroom-support websites and their key features and challenges. Class Dojo allows for communication with parents and tracking student behavior and points, while Google Classroom easily allows teachers to create classes and share assignments and feedback. Kahoot! is useful for assessing student knowledge through game-based quizzes, though it may be difficult for early grades who can't read or use devices. Nearpod engages students through interactive lessons on their own devices.
The document summarizes several classroom-support websites and their key features and challenges. Class Dojo allows for communication with parents and tracking student behavior and points, while Google Classroom easily allows teachers to create classes and share assignments and feedback. Kahoot! is useful for assessing student knowledge through game-based quizzes, though it may be difficult for early grades who can't read or use devices. Nearpod engages students through interactive lessons on their own devices.
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Classroom-Support Websites
Name of website Features Challenges Evaluation
Class Dojo This apps allows for instant It can be confusing for parents to I have used Class Dojo in my class communication with students’ add different classrooms if they for the past three years, I love all parents. It allows the teacher to have more than one kid enrolled the features that it has. It was very make announcements for a in school. Since it allows parents helpful to have all my parents whole class in the class story, and to message the teacher anytime, enrolled in this app during the also private messages with they might expect quick pandemic closure, I would add students’ parents. It lets you give responses. Students can’t share the assignments and through the points to students based on their work with each other. student portfolio they would take different behavior, it has an pictures or videos of the students’ option to randomly group assignments. It is also a useful app students, and randomly select a for Dual Language classrooms student. It allows to create with a two-teacher model, since portfolios for each student, and you can add co-teachers to your you can add assignments for the homeroom so that both teachers whole class. have access to post in the class and have contact with parents. It is a great tool for classroom management. Google Classroom I had not used this before, but I I did not see an option to send I liked the format of this platform, created a class to see how it personalized messages to if it had the option to send works, it was easy to create the students. personal messages, it would be a class. Students can join the class great option to use for online by just entering a code. It allows learning. you to create and schedule announcements, and to give feedback to students’ posts. I liked that it lets you create units or modules. Kahoot! This website lets you create your This is a great website for This is a great tool for teachers in own questions and it allows students in upper grades. For us higher grades to assess prior and students to answer using an who teach, early grades, would current knowledge of students. It is electronic device. It is a way to be difficult to implement it in the also an engaging way for assess student understanding and classroom, since not all students students to assess and reflect on prior knowledge. It is really easy to know how to use electronic their own knowledge. use for both teachers and devices. Also, the website students. doesn’t allow to insert pictures as answers, and since students in early grades can’t read, they wouldn’t be able to read and answer the questions. Quizlet It lets you create your own quizlets The teacher version is not free. I This is a very helpful tool to assess and create classes. I liked that it am not sure that you can review students’ learning through games lets you import google docs and students’ answers without paying and test. It is a good resource in word documents. You can make for the Teacher account. addition to a different the quizlets you create visible to app/website that allows you to certain classes or to everyone. It add assignments, provide also lets you add people to edit feedback, etc. the quizlet. You can add images to the answers. It lets you share the quizlet on Remind and Google Classroom. It lets you play games with the terms you have entered. Teachr Kit As Class Dojo, this app/website, You have to pay to print or share I would love to use this app if it allows teachers to take the reports created in the app. I gave an option to private attendance and add notes for did not find an option for communication with parents. The behavior. It also has a grade communication with parents. reports that it creates could be keeping option, and it allows you very useful and I like the to add multiple classes. I like that gradebook function. it provides with a seating chart report and. It also creates student reports that include data on attendance, behavior, and grades. Weebly This a very user-friendly generator It is just a website to publish your You can add content based on website. It provides different own information, you won’t be your students’ needs. I actually templates and it lets you make able to create your own class, used this during the pandemic modifications as needed. It allows create assignments, etc. closure, I used it to provide to upload files and embed videos, parents with information about pictures, and slideshows. the end of year expectations and provided them with documents that might have been useful and added videos that we would use in the classroom. https://missbanuelos- pk.weebly.com/ Nearpod With this website, teacher can Lessons have to be teacher Students like to be engaged using create their own lessons or access directed, for students to use their own electronic device and lessons created by other teachers. them on their own or in centers being able to give an answer to Teacher has control to change you would have to pay for a all questions. It is a great way for questions, slides. Students can premium account. Some lessons assessing students’ knowledge access the lesson through a code, are not free. and identify topics/concepts you and you can see students’ need to review. answers. You can create quizzes, match games, free drawing. SignUp This website lets you create There are participation reports This is a great tool to manage different events in which people available, but only for the parent teacher conferences, or can sign up for at different times. premium version. It is only useful volunteering events. I have used it It lets you manage how many to organize certain events. multiple times for P/T conferences people you want to be signed up and school carnivals. All you have in each time slot and the length to do is share the invite through of each time slot. Parents can see email, or copy and paste the link who signed up at different times in text, class dojo, etc. or you can also make this private. Remind This app/website, lets you send If you activate the option for It is a form of instant instant messages to the whole parents to reply to your texts, you communication with students’ class, or individual parents. You might want to set times so that parents. And it is a great tool to can see who read the message they know when you’re keep parents informed of what is already. It also allows you to available. happening in the schedule messages. classroom/school. SeeSaw Like Class Dojo, this app/website It does not have a classroom It is a great way for parents to see lets you assig activities, upload story like Class Dojo has, class and comment on their child’s pictures, videos, and announcements get sent as work and have communication communicate with parents. You private messages to parents. with the teacher. can assign created lessons. I like Does not have a student that posts need to be approved behavior component. by the teacher before being posted.