Stay in touch with parents and students with Remind

My Take

My students are proactive in asking me to send out reminders. I love that I can schedule reminders--I can create them during the school day, but set them to be sent when students are not in classes or on the weekends. I also like that I can choose to send reminders to multiple classes at once. Just as my students really like it, their parents are very appreciative that I've started doing this. A drawback is that my students don't seem to understand/share my belief that if I remind them about every single responsibility, I feel I will be enabling them. It is important to me that they are accountable for their obligations. On the other hand, I definitely see more completed work as a result of the reminders. I have chosen to disable all chat features, as I want to keep any communication with students public as opposed to private unless it is through my school email. I see many potential advantages of using the chat feature, but I am not comfortable with that. This program really could not be any easier to use!