For all Remind users.
You can send three different types of messages to your community members on Remind - individual, group, or role-based. Participants will receive your announcement as a text, email, or push notification, depending on how they receive messages.
This article contains the following sections:
Things to keep in mind
- If your class is not linked to an organization with Remind Hub, the character limit for your message is 140. You can add more information to your message by attaching a photo or document to your announcement.
- If you want to schedule an announcement, you can't add individual participants to it. Also, you can only schedule role-based messages on the web and not via the iOS or Android app.
- Your class must be linked to a school to send role-based messages.
- Only class owners and administrators will see the option to send an announcement.
Web
Individual Message
An individual message is a conversation between you and one other participant. You and the participant are the only people who can see the message.
- On the left navigation bar, click New message.
- Select Message.
- Type the name of the person you want to reach in the search box at the top, or scroll down until you get to the People section and select the box next to their name.
- Click Continue.
- Type your message.
- Click Send.
Group conversation
You can select up to 9 other participants to include in a group conversation. When you start a group conversation, all of the participants will see one another as well as each other's responses. This type of message is popular for group or class assignments.
- On the left navigation bar, click New message.
- Select Message.
- Scroll down and click Create New to the right of Recent Group Conversations.
- Click on each participant.
- Click Continue.
- Type your message.
- Click Send.
Things to keep in mind
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Rename a group conversation
- Click on the group conversation you would like to rename, then click on the three horizontal dots in the upper right-hand corner.
- Click Rename.
- Delete the old group conversation name.
- Type the new group conversation name and click Save. The name change will appear in the group conversation profile, header, and thread.
Class or role-based message
When you send a class announcement, all the participants in your class will receive the message. You can also filter your announcement by teachers, students, or parents to send a role-based message. Also, you can send your announcement to a select group of participants. You can do so by finding them via the search bar and individually selecting them to receive your announcement. You cannot send a class role-based message to employees at this time.
As a class owner, you'll be the only one who sees any replies to your announcement. To send a class or a role-based announcement on the web:
- On the left navigation bar, click New message.
- Select Message.
- Scroll down until you get to the Classes section.
- Select the class you want to receive your message.
- Click on Everyone from the drop-down menu to choose a role-based group (teachers, students, or parents).
- You can also add individuals to a class announcement, or select additional classes to send the same announcement to multiple classes.
- Click Continue.
- Type your message.
- Click Send.
App
iOS app
Send an individual or a group message
- Sign in to the Remind app.
- Select a class.
- Tap the pencil icon located on the bottom right side of the screen.
- Choose Conversation to send it to an individual or group of people.
- Select the group of people and/or person you want to receive your message.
- Tap Next.
- Type your message.
- Tap Send.
Rename a group conversation
- Tap on the group conversation that you would like to rename.
- Tap on the info button in the top right-hand corner.
- Tap on the name of the group conversation.
- Type the new name of the group conversation.
- Tap Save.
- Tap Done. You'll notice the name change in the group conversation, profile, header, and thread.
Android app
Send an individual or a group message
- Sign in to the Remind app.
- Select a class.
- Tap the pencil icon located on the bottom right side of the screen.
- Choose Group conversation to send to multiple people or Individual message to send to one person.
- Select the group of people and/or person you want to receive your message.
- Tap Next.
- Type your message.
- Tap Send.
Rename a group conversation
- Tap on the group conversation that you would like to rename.
- Tap on the info button in the top right-hand corner.
- Tap on the name of the group conversation.
- Type the new name of the group conversation.
- Tap Save.
- Tap Done. You'll notice the name change in the group conversation, profile, header, and thread itself.
Additional Resources
- The message composer
- I can't find an unread message/notification
- How do I schedule, edit, or delete a scheduled message?