Fantastic Communication Tool

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Community Review for Remind

Bobbi G.
Bobbi G.
Santa Fe South Charter High School
Oklahoma City OK, US
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My Take

I love being able to communicate with my students the way they communicate. All of my students text, so having the ability to send a text is great.

How I Use It

The majority of my reminders go to my Team (a group of students I often have to get forms and signatures from). We only meet with our team twice a week, and it is often difficult to catch the students in the hall to remind them of anything. This is where Remind 101 comes in handy. I just set a reminder to be sent to my students at a certain time and day as soon as I realize they will need to return something to me. The students love it, and I get all of the paperwork back.

I have also used Remind 101 with all of my students during snow days. I am able to text my students to inform them of an online assignment. It is a great and safe way to communicate.

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Amanda H.
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.
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.
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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