Community Review of Remind | Common Sense Education

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I loved this app! But our school now uses Google Apps for Edu for almost everything and the Remind account that was set up was before we had Google Apps for Edu. I think this year we will be moving away from Remind and going to create a Google Classroom for NHS. This way students will be individually invited by the their email and will not have to specially follow on remind. So when students say they do not know what is going on or did not get the assignment/announcement then the teacher can say that students were invited to classroom and all announcements are there. Students will not longer had the excuse of saying they didn't know the remind code to follow (which they were all given at the first NHS meeting in the agenda). This is not really a critique on app. The apps itself was so easy to use and I love how it easy it was so communicate with students.

How I Use It

For the last five years, I have been a Library Media Specialist and a National Honor Society advisor for three of those years. I used this tool to communicate with students. I would send messages from my computer on remind. com and it would send text messages to students. I loved it and it was really effective in communicating with students. I liked that it popped up on the kids phones like text messages (without actually texting to students... I do not like the idea of having students numbers and it might be against school policy anyway) because I knew they would get the messages as they are always on their phones. Example of some messages that I would announce to NHS were: NHS' Red Cross Blood was successful. 19 units of blood were collected and this can save up to 57 lives. Thank you to all who donated, Call for Bio tutor! Let me know if you can. Thanks!, and Reminder: Meeting tomorrow in the auditorium. Mandatory.

More community reviews for Remind

Amanda H.

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!

Mandy F. 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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