Awesome resource that keeps students and parents informed!

Submitted 10 years ago

Community Review for Remind

Matt H.
Matt H.
North Allegheny School District
Pittsburgh PA, US
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Overall, this is a great tool to use to hold students accountable for upcoming deadlines. I really like how it does not use the teacher's real phone number. Additionally, it is very nice that parents can subscribe to get updates from the teacher as well.

Remind is free to use, and the teacher can access it from any web browser. It is also an app that can be downloaded for a personal device.

If you are looking for a tool to reinforce organization and accountability among your students, Remind is a must have!

How I Use It

I have used this tool to keep students and parents updated and informed with information about upcoming assignments, projects, tests, events, field trips, deadlines, etc. Remind is a great way for a teacher to stay in constant contact with students and their parents.

The nice thing about Remind is that students and parents can sign up to get alerts from the teacher sent via text message. A random number is generated to send out the alerts, thus keeping the teacher's contact information anonymous. Also, students and parents cannot respond to the alerts, therefore the teacher will not be flooded with additional messages.

Both students and parents love Remind because it keeps them up-to-date with necessary information about the class/school.

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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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