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Healthy usage

My child is in the red overuse section or has reached their daily limit on Doodle

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Written by Jo Kiddell
Updated over a week ago

Weekly Healthy Usage Restrictions

When your child logs in to Doodle, they’ll see a gauge with an arrow in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen. This shows your child whether they’re on target to achieve their weekly star target.

If your child earns additional stars over their weekly target, they'll enter a 'red zone' on the right-hand side of the gauge. Being in this zone will lock all activities in Doodle.

The red zone indicates that your child has used Doodle for more than the suggested time in a week. Locking additional activities helps to promote healthy screen time, as we don't want children to spend too long in front of a screen.

If your child enters the red zone and you're happy for them to continue with their work, you'll then be asked to enter your parent PIN; once you've done this, the activities will be unlocked.

Daily Healthy Usage Restrictions

We have also put measure in place to prevent children from overusing the app on a daily basis. We have set daily 'overuse' as over 200 stars/day. Once the child has reached this point and tries to continue to Doodle, a message will be shown asking for an adult PIN to be entered in order for them to continue using the App as both a school and home user.

This feature can be disabled in the App settings by selecting Menu > Settings > Work programme. From here you can toggle the Healthy Usage Limit on or off.


💡 Need more help? Feel free to contact our lovely customer support team by using the chat bubble in the bottom right corner of the screen, they will be happy to help!

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