In Elementary, a great way to touch base with students and parents about events and reminders

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Community Review for Remind

Jenny A.
Jenny A.
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I love this tool and I intend to use this next year! I wish that all teachers at my school would use it so that it would be a cohesive platform for families at our school. The drawback that I see are for parents or students who don't sign up for this tool. It's great if they sign up, but if they don't, they miss the opportunities to get reminders.

How I Use It

The wonderful aspect of this app is that you can send out information to students AND parents about reminders such as events or a mistake in the homework without having to give out your phone number. I send out reminders for PTA fundraisers, homework corrections, homework (if homework was written down at school), changes in homework or flipped learning videos, and also event reminders such as Open House or Back to School Night. I thought it was great because you won't have to give out your phone number to students nor to parents but the tricky part that I found was that in case students or parents needed to contact you, it wouldn't be possible. Just yet.

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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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