Communicate with students and parents quickly and easily!

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Community Review for Remind

Leah K.
Leah K.
Cobb County School District
Marietta GA, US
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As a teaching tool, Remind101 primarily serves as a way of communicating easily and quickly with students and parents. A potential way of making this more of a two-way communication tool would be allowing students and parents to reply back to the Remind101 number. However, overall, I do love this tool, and I think the premise behind it is great.

How I Use It

I use Remind101 for every class. At the beginning of the semester or school year, I have all students take out their phones and register using my Remind101 code for their course. I also post this code to my blog and let parents know about it during Open House nights. This app allows you to send text messages directly to students and parents without knowing their phone numbers or you knowing theirs. If it's been a little while since my last message, my students actually ask me about them and request that I send out reminders about projects and assignments.

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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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