Super way to stay in touch for online courses!
Submitted 11 years ago
Community Review for Remind
Karen V.
Spackenkill High School
Poughkeepsie NY, US
My Take
Remind101 makes it super easy to send out reminders! The set up is super quick and it's easy to sign in and send messages. Students don't know your cell number and vice versa. There's also an app for it and if students don't have cell phones they can use email. Students grades have gone up simply because they are doing the assignments!
How I Use It
I teach online courses at the high school level and the biggest problem all learners have is remembering to sign into the course to complete the work assigned for that week. I'm also using it with middle school students taking an extra online science course and their parents can sign up for alerts too.
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Amanda H.
Teacher
March 12, 2022
New limits have ruined the free service
They've recently changed the character count so even individual messages are limited to 140 characters. The 140 character limit for whole group announcements was Remind's biggest flaw - making that applicable to individual messages as well means it is not longer useful at all. I can't limit all my communications with students to 140 characters and I can't ask them to receive 2 or 3 or more texts every time we communicate. I will be researching and finding another service for the fall. (It also sucks that they are implementing this in the middle of the school year. :/)
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AVA W.
September 27, 2021
Great way to keep in contact with your class outside of the classroom!
I really like how this sends reminders out to students cell phones rather than in email format. I think it's a more effective way of communicating with students because they are always on their phones and so they're more likely to see it. It's great because you can do this without giving out your phone number to students!
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Mandy F.
Teacher
Sheep Harney Elementary
Elizabeth City, NC
February 13, 2019
Great for Parent Communication
I love Remind for simply keeping in touch with Parents. it is especially helpful to communicate with my Parents who speak a different language. I love that it has a translator for both myself and the parent to use. The only con I have is when I am sending a group message to inform ALL parents, there is a limit on how may characters may be used. I usually have to send multiple messages to get out what I am trying to tell the whole class.
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