Remind: Fast, Efficient School Messaging

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Description

Remind, formerly Remind101, is a free text messaging app that helps teachers, students, and parents communicate quickly and efficiently. By connecting school communities, Remind makes it easy for everyone to succeed together. Remind is based in San Francisco, CA and is used by more than 35 million people in 3 out of 4 U.S. school districts.

* Real-time messaging for your school, group, or just a single person.
* Schedule reminders ahead of time.
* Send text messages straight to any phone.
* Translate messages into more than 70 languages.
* See who's read your messages and who's missing out.
* Plan important activities and collect fundson time.

Once a teacher starts to use the tool, it tends to spread through the rest of the school like wildfire. Domonique Roberts, a history teacher at University High School in Newark, N.J., has been using Remind to communicate better with parents. 'I have been messaging one students mom, telling her when hes not doing homework, or if he fell asleep in class today,' Roberts says. 'Shes on top of it and his grade improved by two letter grades from the first marking period to the second, just by keeping up with her.' Fast Company

Reminds features have proved especially popular in low-income districts, where parent engagement is a key issue for teachers, and parents sometimes erratic work schedules can make it difficult to get in touch by phone. Buzzfeed

Link 1: Remind website: https://www.remind.com/

What's New in Version 6.11.2

What we've been up to:
-Improved search when viewing messages, we will show existing conversations first
-On activity creation, the illustration changes based on activity type
-A more helpful error if you can't add someone to a class

Get help or say hi to our Support team rmd.me/help

Customer Reviews

New look, less functional (1 star)
Since leaving for the summer, the new update layout and function has not been very user friendly. There doesn't seem to be any logic or reason for where things are located, and I can only locate the instructions for how to sign up students for classes on the web based version. It seems more effort is being put in to the web interface than the functionality of the app.

Messages used to be its own tab, now messages are grouped by cla