App+Rubric

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Application Review
Name: Application Name: iTunes Link: Price:

Educational Evaluation (Check Applicable)
___ Content Knowledge ___ Higher Level Thinking/Problem Solving ___ Practice ___ Application of Content Knowledge ___ Skill Development ___ Other

Functional evaluation (Check Applicable)
___ Account sign-up required (direct or indirect) ___ Embedded browser ___ Access to content outside device Subscription service

Potential Risks
___ Account Creation (Note GC if this directly tied to Game Center, an Apple in-house app)

___ Adult Content (sometimes noted as vulgar speech on elementary list)

___ Internet Content (Example - Wikinodes)

___ Third Party Browser (Example - SmartNote)

___ Backdoor Access - Allows access to the internet through a method of clicking links

___ Advertising (Example - Forge of Neon)

___ Overuse (Example - Angry Birds, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Games)

___ Age Requirement (Example - Facebook)

**About Screen**
Locate the about link and then a series of clicks until you arrive at a browser. We are referring to this as backdoor access. Examples of this might be 3D Brain, Financial Football. This is the category that causes the most issues. The access is purposeful, but none the less, access to inappropriate sites can be achieved and the tolerance level at the elementary schools is nearly none.

Non-functional evaluation (Check Reviews for…)

 * Performance
 * Scalability
 * Security