Excellent tool to communicate with students and parents!
Submitted 11 years ago
Community Review for Remind
Ed H.
Cabell Midland High School
Ona WV, US
My Take
Overall - it's great! information to the students/parents is quick and easy. It now also offers the ability to attach documents, etc., to messages.
How I Use It
I have set up individual classes in Remind. With this tool, I send reminders about homework, suggested sites to visit, reminders about performances, parent meetings; anything that I want students to be "reminded" about can be sent via text and/or e-mail. (They can sign up to get messages either or both ways) It is also helpful to parents who want to be in the loop about coming events/homework/etc. Messages can be sent right away, scheduled for later and repeated.
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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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