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How do I add people to my class?

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Byanka Campos
Customer Support

For Remind class owners. Click here if you're an administrator. Click here if you need to add people from one class to another. 

There are two ways to add people to a class in Remind:

  1. You can add them to your class from your Add people dashboard - This option is best if you have a list of class participants' phone numbers or email addresses. You can also add people in bulk by copying and pasting from a spreadsheet.
  2. Share instructions for joining your class - This option is best if your class participants can access a computer or phone and join your class on their own. Provide class participants with your class code, a printable PDF, in-person instructions, or a shareable link.

Remind Chat free members - when you add someone, they'll receive an invitation to your class that they must accept before they become a class participant. 

Remind Hub paid members - when you add people to a class, they'll automatically become members of the class. 

This article contains the following information:

  • Invite people to join your class (Remind Chat members)
  • Add people directly to your class (Remind Hub members)
  • Add people to your class in bulk (Remind Chat and Hub members)
  • Share instructions for joining your class (Remind Chat and Hub members)

Invite people to join your class

The following instructions are only for Remind Chat customers (click here if you're a Remind Hub customer):

  1. Select the class from the Classes owned section in the left navigation menu.
  2. Click on the Add People button on the top right.
  3. Select a role (Students, Parents, Teachers) for the individuals you want to add.New_add_people_dashboard.png
  4. Enter the first name and last name (optional), phone or email address, secondary phone or email (optional), and preferred language (optional) of each person you want to add to the class.Add_people_Table_w_data.png
    • An email address is required when inviting teachers to Remind. You can also add a phone number or secondary email address.
    • Click here to see accepted preferred language codes

      Language ISO-639-1 ISO-639-2 ISO-639-3
      English en ENG  
      Spanish es SPA  
      Chinese zh CHI ZHO
      French fr FRE FRA
      Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) pt POR  
      Afrikaans af AFR  
      Albanian sq ALB SQI
      Amharic am AMH  
      Arabic ar ARA  
      Armenian hy ARM HYE
      Assamese as ASM  
      Aymara ay AYM  
      Azerbaijani az AZE  
      Bambara bm BAM  
      Basque eu BAQ EUS
      Belarusian be BEL  
      Bengali bn BEN  
      Bhojpuri bho BHO  
      Bosnian bs BOS  
      Bulgarian bg BUL  
      Catalan ca CAT  
      Cebuano ceb CEB  
      Corsican co COS  
      Croatian hr HRV  
      Czech cs CZE CES
      Danish da DAN  
      Dhivehi dv DIV  
      Dogri doi DOI  
      Dutch nl DUT NLD
      Esperanto eo EPO  
      Estonian et EST  
      Ewe ee EWE  
      Filipino (Tagalog) fil FIL  
      Finnish fi FIN  
      Frisian fy FRY  
      Galician gl GLG  
      Georgian ka GEO KAT
      German de GER DEU
      Greek el GRE ELL
      Guarani gn GRN  
      Gujarati gu GUJ  
      Haitian Creole ht HAT  
      Hausa ha HAU  
      Hawaiian haw HAW  
      Hebrew he or iw HEB  
      Hindi hi HIN  
      Hmong hmn HMN  
      Hungarian hu HUN  
      Icelandic is ICE ISL
      Igbo ig IBO  
      Ilocano ilo ILO  
      Indonesian id IND  
      Irish ga GLE  
      Italian it ITA  
      Japanese ja JPN  
      Javanese jv or jw JAV  
      Kannada kn KAN  
      Kazakh kk KAZ  
      Khmer km KHM  
      Kinyarwanda rw KIN  
      Konkani gom GOM  
      Korean ko KOR  
      Krio kri KRI  
      Kurdish ku KUR  
      Kurdish (Sorani) ckb CKB  
      Kyrgyz ky KIR  
      Lao lo LAO  
      Latin la LAT  
      Latvian lv LAV  
      Lingala ln LIN  
      Lithuanian lt LIT  
      Luganda lg LUG  
      Luxembourgish lb LTZ  
      Macedonian mk MAC MKD
      Maithili mai MAI  
      Malagasy mg MLG  
      Malay ms MAY MSA
      Malayalam ml MAL  
      Maltese mt MLT  
      Maori mi MAO MRI
      Marathi mr MAR  
      Meiteilon (Manipuri) mni-Mtei MNI  
      Mizo lus LUS  
      Mongolian mn MON  
      Myanmar (Burmese) my BUR MYA
      Nepali ne NEP  
      Norwegian no NOR  
      Nyanja (Chichewa) ny NYA  
      Odia (Oriya) or ORI  
      Oromo om ORM  
      Pashto ps PUS  
      Persian fa PER FAS
      Polish pl POL  
      Punjabi pa PAN  
      Quechua qu QUE  
      Romanian ro RUM RON
      Russian ru RUS  
      Samoan sm SMO  
      Sanskrit sa SAN  
      Scots Gaelic gd GLA  
      Sepedi nso NSO  
      Serbian sr SRP  
      Sesotho st SOT  
      Shona sn SNA  
      Sindhi sd SND  
      Sinhala (Sinhalese) si SIN  
      Slovak sk SLO SLK
      Slovenian sl SLV  
      Somali so SOM  
      Sundanese su SUN  
      Swahili sw SWA  
      Swedish sv SWE  
      Tagalog (Filipino) tl TGL  
      Tajik tg TGK  
      Tamil ta TAM  
      Tatar tt TAT  
      Telugu te TEL  
      Thai th THA  
      Tigrinya ti TIR  
      Tsonga ts TSO  
      Turkish tr TUR  
      Turkmen tk TUK  
      Twi (Akan) ak AKA  
      Ukrainian uk UKR  
      Urdu ur URD  
      Uyghur ug UIG  
      Uzbek uz UZB  
      Vietnamese vi VIE  
      Welsh cy WEL CYM
      Xhosa xh XHO  
      Yiddish yi YID  
      Yoruba yo YOR  
      Zulu zu ZUL  
    • If you need to start over, click Clear table on the bottom right and confirm the deletion of all information for the role you selected.
    • Although only five rows will show initially, more rows will appear as you add information. 
    • Repeat step 4 for each additional class participant role you need to add.
    • You can have a maximum of 150 participants in a class.
  5. Click the Add People button on the bottom left of the table.

When people accept your class invitation, they'll automatically get added to your class People list.

Note: If your People list has not been updated, refresh the page to populate the new data. You can also update the contact information of people in your community via your dashboard at any time. Learn more here.

Example of an invitation:

Invitations_-_join_a_class.png

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Add people directly to your class

These instructions are only for Remind Hub customers. Click here if you're a Remind Chat customer.

  1. Select the class from the Classes owned section in the left navigation menu.
  2. Click on the Add People button on the top right.
  3. Select a role (Students, Parents, Teachers) for the individuals you want to add.New_add_people_dashboard.png
  4. Enter the first name and last name (optional), phone or email address, secondary phone or email (optional), and preferred language (optional) of each person you want to add to the class.Add_people_Table_w_data.png
    • An email address is required when inviting teachers to Remind. You can also add a phone number or secondary email address.
    • Click here to see accepted preferred language codes

      Language ISO-639-1 ISO-639-2 ISO-639-3
      English en ENG  
      Spanish es SPA  
      Chinese zh CHI ZHO
      French fr FRE FRA
      Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) pt POR  
      Afrikaans af AFR  
      Albanian sq ALB SQI
      Amharic am AMH  
      Arabic ar ARA  
      Armenian hy ARM HYE
      Assamese as ASM  
      Aymara ay AYM  
      Azerbaijani az AZE  
      Bambara bm BAM  
      Basque eu BAQ EUS
      Belarusian be BEL  
      Bengali bn BEN  
      Bhojpuri bho BHO  
      Bosnian bs BOS  
      Bulgarian bg BUL  
      Catalan ca CAT  
      Cebuano ceb CEB  
      Corsican co COS  
      Croatian hr HRV  
      Czech cs CZE CES
      Danish da DAN  
      Dhivehi dv DIV  
      Dogri doi DOI  
      Dutch nl DUT NLD
      Esperanto eo EPO  
      Estonian et EST  
      Ewe ee EWE  
      Filipino (Tagalog) fil FIL  
      Finnish fi FIN  
      Frisian fy FRY  
      Galician gl GLG  
      Georgian ka GEO KAT
      German de GER DEU
      Greek el GRE ELL
      Guarani gn GRN  
      Gujarati gu GUJ  
      Haitian Creole ht HAT  
      Hausa ha HAU  
      Hawaiian haw HAW  
      Hebrew he or iw HEB  
      Hindi hi HIN  
      Hmong hmn HMN  
      Hungarian hu HUN  
      Icelandic is ICE ISL
      Igbo ig IBO  
      Ilocano ilo ILO  
      Indonesian id IND  
      Irish ga GLE  
      Italian it ITA  
      Japanese ja JPN  
      Javanese jv or jw JAV  
      Kannada kn KAN  
      Kazakh kk KAZ  
      Khmer km KHM  
      Kinyarwanda rw KIN  
      Konkani gom GOM  
      Korean ko KOR  
      Krio kri KRI  
      Kurdish ku KUR  
      Kurdish (Sorani) ckb CKB  
      Kyrgyz ky KIR  
      Lao lo LAO  
      Latin la LAT  
      Latvian lv LAV  
      Lingala ln LIN  
      Lithuanian lt LIT  
      Luganda lg LUG  
      Luxembourgish lb LTZ  
      Macedonian mk MAC MKD
      Maithili mai MAI  
      Malagasy mg MLG  
      Malay ms MAY MSA
      Malayalam ml MAL  
      Maltese mt MLT  
      Maori mi MAO MRI
      Marathi mr MAR  
      Meiteilon (Manipuri) mni-Mtei MNI  
      Mizo lus LUS  
      Mongolian mn MON  
      Myanmar (Burmese) my BUR MYA
      Nepali ne NEP  
      Norwegian no NOR  
      Nyanja (Chichewa) ny NYA  
      Odia (Oriya) or ORI  
      Oromo om ORM  
      Pashto ps PUS  
      Persian fa PER FAS
      Polish pl POL  
      Punjabi pa PAN  
      Quechua qu QUE  
      Romanian ro RUM RON
      Russian ru RUS  
      Samoan sm SMO  
      Sanskrit sa SAN  
      Scots Gaelic gd GLA  
      Sepedi nso NSO  
      Serbian sr SRP  
      Sesotho st SOT  
      Shona sn SNA  
      Sindhi sd SND  
      Sinhala (Sinhalese) si SIN  
      Slovak sk SLO SLK
      Slovenian sl SLV  
      Somali so SOM  
      Sundanese su SUN  
      Swahili sw SWA  
      Swedish sv SWE  
      Tagalog (Filipino) tl TGL  
      Tajik tg TGK  
      Tamil ta TAM  
      Tatar tt TAT  
      Telugu te TEL  
      Thai th THA  
      Tigrinya ti TIR  
      Tsonga ts TSO  
      Turkish tr TUR  
      Turkmen tk TUK  
      Twi (Akan) ak AKA  
      Ukrainian uk UKR  
      Urdu ur URD  
      Uyghur ug UIG  
      Uzbek uz UZB  
      Vietnamese vi VIE  
      Welsh cy WEL CYM
      Xhosa xh XHO  
      Yiddish yi YID  
      Yoruba yo YOR  
      Zulu zu ZUL  
    • If you need to start over, click Clear table on the bottom right and confirm the deletion of all information for the role you selected.
    • Although only five rows will show initially, more rows will appear as you add information. You can add up to 150 people at one time.
    • Repeat step 4 for each additional class participant role you need to add.
  5. Click the Add People button on the bottom left of the table.

You’re now done! All the individuals you added will appear on the People list of the class and get added to the school connected to the class. They'll start receiving your messages immediately.

Note: If your People list has not been updated, refresh the page to populate the new data. You can also update the contact information of people in your community via your dashboard at any time. Learn more here.

Example of a confirmation email:

Confirmation_email_-_direct_add.png

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Add People to your class in bulk

  1. Open Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel, and create a spreadsheet with separate tabs for Students, Parents, and Teachers (the same headings shown on the Add people dashboard in Remind).
  2. For the Students tab of your spreadsheet add the following:
    • First and Last names of all the people that should be in the class are in the first and second columns.
    • Their Phone or Email address is in the third column.
    • Add an optional Secondary phone or email in the fourth column.
    • Add an optional Preferred language in the fifth column.Spreadsheet_for_Add_people.png
  3. Complete the same columns for Parents and Teachers on their respective tabs. Be sure to add individuals to the correct tab.
    • An email address is required when inviting teachers to Remind. You can also add a phone number or secondary email address.
  4. Save your Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
  5. Copy all the information on the Students tab in your spreadsheet, and paste it onto the Students table in Remind. Do not copy and paste the headings, such as first name, last name phone or email, and preferred language.Copy_and_paste_2.png
  6. Repeat these steps for the Parent and Teachers tab on the spreadsheet for the respective roles in Remind. Make sure you’re copying from the correct tab on your spreadsheet and pasting the information to the correct role in Remind.
    • If you need to start over, click Clear table on the bottom right and confirm the deletion of all information for the role you selected.
  7. Click the Add People button on the bottom left of the table.

You’re now done! All the individuals you added will appear on the People list of the class or on the People list of your school. 

Note: If your People list has not been updated, refresh the page to populate the new data. You can also update the contact information of people in your community via your dashboard at any time. Learn more here.

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Share instructions for joining a class

  1. Select the class from the Classes owned section in the left navigation menu.
  2. Click on the Add people button on the top right.
  3. Select one of the following options: shareable_options_-_whole_page.png
    • Printable PDF - Download or print out instructions for joining Remind. The PDF provides text or email sign-up options and is available in Spanish, French, and Portuguese.     
      • Tip: Post these in a high-traffic location, such as a classroom door or pick-up area, or send them home as a handout or email attachment.         
    • In-person instructions - If people have their mobile phones with them, they can sign up in seconds via text message. 
      • Tip: Share this information in an announcement or include it somewhere with high visibility, like a board, syllabus, or newsletter.
    • Share a link - With this link, people can join your class directly from their phones or computers without entering your class code. 
      • Tip: Copy and paste this link into an email (or on a website where you feel comfortable sharing this information).
  4. Let your class participants know that they must follow all the required prompts they receive on their phone or email (such as replying with their name or date of birth) because they won't appear in your class until they do. Shareable_instructions_-_all_together.png

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  1. Help Center
  2. Using Remind
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How do I add people to my class?

Avatar
Byanka Campos
Customer Support

For Remind class owners. Click here if you're an administrator. Click here if you need to add people from one class to another. 

There are two ways to add people to a class in Remind:

  1. You can add them to your class from your Add people dashboard - This option is best if you have a list of class participants' phone numbers or email addresses. You can also add people in bulk by copying and pasting from a spreadsheet.
  2. Share instructions for joining your class - This option is best if your class participants can access a computer or phone and join your class on their own. Provide class participants with your class code, a printable PDF, in-person instructions, or a shareable link.

Remind Chat free members - when you add someone, they'll receive an invitation to your class that they must accept before they become a class participant. 

Remind Hub paid members - when you add people to a class, they'll automatically become members of the class. 

This article contains the following information:

  • Invite people to join your class (Remind Chat members)
  • Add people directly to your class (Remind Hub members)
  • Add people to your class in bulk (Remind Chat and Hub members)
  • Share instructions for joining your class (Remind Chat and Hub members)

Invite people to join your class

The following instructions are only for Remind Chat customers (click here if you're a Remind Hub customer):

  1. Select the class from the Classes owned section in the left navigation menu.
  2. Click on the Add People button on the top right.
  3. Select a role (Students, Parents, Teachers) for the individuals you want to add.New_add_people_dashboard.png
  4. Enter the first name and last name (optional), phone or email address, secondary phone or email (optional), and preferred language (optional) of each person you want to add to the class.Add_people_Table_w_data.png
    • An email address is required when inviting teachers to Remind. You can also add a phone number or secondary email address.
    • Click here to see accepted preferred language codes

      Language ISO-639-1 ISO-639-2 ISO-639-3
      English en ENG  
      Spanish es SPA  
      Chinese zh CHI ZHO
      French fr FRE FRA
      Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) pt POR  
      Afrikaans af AFR  
      Albanian sq ALB SQI
      Amharic am AMH  
      Arabic ar ARA  
      Armenian hy ARM HYE
      Assamese as ASM  
      Aymara ay AYM  
      Azerbaijani az AZE  
      Bambara bm BAM  
      Basque eu BAQ EUS
      Belarusian be BEL  
      Bengali bn BEN  
      Bhojpuri bho BHO  
      Bosnian bs BOS  
      Bulgarian bg BUL  
      Catalan ca CAT  
      Cebuano ceb CEB  
      Corsican co COS  
      Croatian hr HRV  
      Czech cs CZE CES
      Danish da DAN  
      Dhivehi dv DIV  
      Dogri doi DOI  
      Dutch nl DUT NLD
      Esperanto eo EPO  
      Estonian et EST  
      Ewe ee EWE  
      Filipino (Tagalog) fil FIL  
      Finnish fi FIN  
      Frisian fy FRY  
      Galician gl GLG  
      Georgian ka GEO KAT
      German de GER DEU
      Greek el GRE ELL
      Guarani gn GRN  
      Gujarati gu GUJ  
      Haitian Creole ht HAT  
      Hausa ha HAU  
      Hawaiian haw HAW  
      Hebrew he or iw HEB  
      Hindi hi HIN  
      Hmong hmn HMN  
      Hungarian hu HUN  
      Icelandic is ICE ISL
      Igbo ig IBO  
      Ilocano ilo ILO  
      Indonesian id IND  
      Irish ga GLE  
      Italian it ITA  
      Japanese ja JPN  
      Javanese jv or jw JAV  
      Kannada kn KAN  
      Kazakh kk KAZ  
      Khmer km KHM  
      Kinyarwanda rw KIN  
      Konkani gom GOM  
      Korean ko KOR  
      Krio kri KRI  
      Kurdish ku KUR  
      Kurdish (Sorani) ckb CKB  
      Kyrgyz ky KIR  
      Lao lo LAO  
      Latin la LAT  
      Latvian lv LAV  
      Lingala ln LIN  
      Lithuanian lt LIT  
      Luganda lg LUG  
      Luxembourgish lb LTZ  
      Macedonian mk MAC MKD
      Maithili mai MAI  
      Malagasy mg MLG  
      Malay ms MAY MSA
      Malayalam ml MAL  
      Maltese mt MLT  
      Maori mi MAO MRI
      Marathi mr MAR  
      Meiteilon (Manipuri) mni-Mtei MNI  
      Mizo lus LUS  
      Mongolian mn MON  
      Myanmar (Burmese) my BUR MYA
      Nepali ne NEP  
      Norwegian no NOR  
      Nyanja (Chichewa) ny NYA  
      Odia (Oriya) or ORI  
      Oromo om ORM  
      Pashto ps PUS  
      Persian fa PER FAS
      Polish pl POL  
      Punjabi pa PAN  
      Quechua qu QUE  
      Romanian ro RUM RON
      Russian ru RUS  
      Samoan sm SMO  
      Sanskrit sa SAN  
      Scots Gaelic gd GLA  
      Sepedi nso NSO  
      Serbian sr SRP  
      Sesotho st SOT  
      Shona sn SNA  
      Sindhi sd SND  
      Sinhala (Sinhalese) si SIN  
      Slovak sk SLO SLK
      Slovenian sl SLV  
      Somali so SOM  
      Sundanese su SUN  
      Swahili sw SWA  
      Swedish sv SWE  
      Tagalog (Filipino) tl TGL  
      Tajik tg TGK  
      Tamil ta TAM  
      Tatar tt TAT  
      Telugu te TEL  
      Thai th THA  
      Tigrinya ti TIR  
      Tsonga ts TSO  
      Turkish tr TUR  
      Turkmen tk TUK  
      Twi (Akan) ak AKA  
      Ukrainian uk UKR  
      Urdu ur URD  
      Uyghur ug UIG  
      Uzbek uz UZB  
      Vietnamese vi VIE  
      Welsh cy WEL CYM
      Xhosa xh XHO  
      Yiddish yi YID  
      Yoruba yo YOR  
      Zulu zu ZUL  
    • If you need to start over, click Clear table on the bottom right and confirm the deletion of all information for the role you selected.
    • Although only five rows will show initially, more rows will appear as you add information. 
    • Repeat step 4 for each additional class participant role you need to add.
    • You can have a maximum of 150 participants in a class.
  5. Click the Add People button on the bottom left of the table.

When people accept your class invitation, they'll automatically get added to your class People list.

Note: If your People list has not been updated, refresh the page to populate the new data. You can also update the contact information of people in your community via your dashboard at any time. Learn more here.

Example of an invitation:

Invitations_-_join_a_class.png

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Add people directly to your class

These instructions are only for Remind Hub customers. Click here if you're a Remind Chat customer.

  1. Select the class from the Classes owned section in the left navigation menu.
  2. Click on the Add People button on the top right.
  3. Select a role (Students, Parents, Teachers) for the individuals you want to add.New_add_people_dashboard.png
  4. Enter the first name and last name (optional), phone or email address, secondary phone or email (optional), and preferred language (optional) of each person you want to add to the class.Add_people_Table_w_data.png
    • An email address is required when inviting teachers to Remind. You can also add a phone number or secondary email address.
    • Click here to see accepted preferred language codes

      Language ISO-639-1 ISO-639-2 ISO-639-3
      English en ENG  
      Spanish es SPA  
      Chinese zh CHI ZHO
      French fr FRE FRA
      Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) pt POR  
      Afrikaans af AFR  
      Albanian sq ALB SQI
      Amharic am AMH  
      Arabic ar ARA  
      Armenian hy ARM HYE
      Assamese as ASM  
      Aymara ay AYM  
      Azerbaijani az AZE  
      Bambara bm BAM  
      Basque eu BAQ EUS
      Belarusian be BEL  
      Bengali bn BEN  
      Bhojpuri bho BHO  
      Bosnian bs BOS  
      Bulgarian bg BUL  
      Catalan ca CAT  
      Cebuano ceb CEB  
      Corsican co COS  
      Croatian hr HRV  
      Czech cs CZE CES
      Danish da DAN  
      Dhivehi dv DIV  
      Dogri doi DOI  
      Dutch nl DUT NLD
      Esperanto eo EPO  
      Estonian et EST  
      Ewe ee EWE  
      Filipino (Tagalog) fil FIL  
      Finnish fi FIN  
      Frisian fy FRY  
      Galician gl GLG  
      Georgian ka GEO KAT
      German de GER DEU
      Greek el GRE ELL
      Guarani gn GRN  
      Gujarati gu GUJ  
      Haitian Creole ht HAT  
      Hausa ha HAU  
      Hawaiian haw HAW  
      Hebrew he or iw HEB  
      Hindi hi HIN  
      Hmong hmn HMN  
      Hungarian hu HUN  
      Icelandic is ICE ISL
      Igbo ig IBO  
      Ilocano ilo ILO  
      Indonesian id IND  
      Irish ga GLE  
      Italian it ITA  
      Japanese ja JPN  
      Javanese jv or jw JAV  
      Kannada kn KAN  
      Kazakh kk KAZ  
      Khmer km KHM  
      Kinyarwanda rw KIN  
      Konkani gom GOM  
      Korean ko KOR  
      Krio kri KRI  
      Kurdish ku KUR  
      Kurdish (Sorani) ckb CKB  
      Kyrgyz ky KIR  
      Lao lo LAO  
      Latin la LAT  
      Latvian lv LAV  
      Lingala ln LIN  
      Lithuanian lt LIT  
      Luganda lg LUG  
      Luxembourgish lb LTZ  
      Macedonian mk MAC MKD
      Maithili mai MAI  
      Malagasy mg MLG  
      Malay ms MAY MSA
      Malayalam ml MAL  
      Maltese mt MLT  
      Maori mi MAO MRI
      Marathi mr MAR  
      Meiteilon (Manipuri) mni-Mtei MNI  
      Mizo lus LUS  
      Mongolian mn MON  
      Myanmar (Burmese) my BUR MYA
      Nepali ne NEP  
      Norwegian no NOR  
      Nyanja (Chichewa) ny NYA  
      Odia (Oriya) or ORI  
      Oromo om ORM  
      Pashto ps PUS  
      Persian fa PER FAS
      Polish pl POL  
      Punjabi pa PAN  
      Quechua qu QUE  
      Romanian ro RUM RON
      Russian ru RUS  
      Samoan sm SMO  
      Sanskrit sa SAN  
      Scots Gaelic gd GLA  
      Sepedi nso NSO  
      Serbian sr SRP  
      Sesotho st SOT  
      Shona sn SNA  
      Sindhi sd SND  
      Sinhala (Sinhalese) si SIN  
      Slovak sk SLO SLK
      Slovenian sl SLV  
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      Sundanese su SUN  
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      Swedish sv SWE  
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      Tajik tg TGK  
      Tamil ta TAM  
      Tatar tt TAT  
      Telugu te TEL  
      Thai th THA  
      Tigrinya ti TIR  
      Tsonga ts TSO  
      Turkish tr TUR  
      Turkmen tk TUK  
      Twi (Akan) ak AKA  
      Ukrainian uk UKR  
      Urdu ur URD  
      Uyghur ug UIG  
      Uzbek uz UZB  
      Vietnamese vi VIE  
      Welsh cy WEL CYM
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      Yiddish yi YID  
      Yoruba yo YOR  
      Zulu zu ZUL  
    • If you need to start over, click Clear table on the bottom right and confirm the deletion of all information for the role you selected.
    • Although only five rows will show initially, more rows will appear as you add information. You can add up to 150 people at one time.
    • Repeat step 4 for each additional class participant role you need to add.
  5. Click the Add People button on the bottom left of the table.

You’re now done! All the individuals you added will appear on the People list of the class and get added to the school connected to the class. They'll start receiving your messages immediately.

Note: If your People list has not been updated, refresh the page to populate the new data. You can also update the contact information of people in your community via your dashboard at any time. Learn more here.

Example of a confirmation email:

Confirmation_email_-_direct_add.png

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Add People to your class in bulk

  1. Open Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel, and create a spreadsheet with separate tabs for Students, Parents, and Teachers (the same headings shown on the Add people dashboard in Remind).
  2. For the Students tab of your spreadsheet add the following:
    • First and Last names of all the people that should be in the class are in the first and second columns.
    • Their Phone or Email address is in the third column.
    • Add an optional Secondary phone or email in the fourth column.
    • Add an optional Preferred language in the fifth column.Spreadsheet_for_Add_people.png
  3. Complete the same columns for Parents and Teachers on their respective tabs. Be sure to add individuals to the correct tab.
    • An email address is required when inviting teachers to Remind. You can also add a phone number or secondary email address.
  4. Save your Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
  5. Copy all the information on the Students tab in your spreadsheet, and paste it onto the Students table in Remind. Do not copy and paste the headings, such as first name, last name phone or email, and preferred language.Copy_and_paste_2.png
  6. Repeat these steps for the Parent and Teachers tab on the spreadsheet for the respective roles in Remind. Make sure you’re copying from the correct tab on your spreadsheet and pasting the information to the correct role in Remind.
    • If you need to start over, click Clear table on the bottom right and confirm the deletion of all information for the role you selected.
  7. Click the Add People button on the bottom left of the table.

You’re now done! All the individuals you added will appear on the People list of the class or on the People list of your school. 

Note: If your People list has not been updated, refresh the page to populate the new data. You can also update the contact information of people in your community via your dashboard at any time. Learn more here.

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Share instructions for joining a class

  1. Select the class from the Classes owned section in the left navigation menu.
  2. Click on the Add people button on the top right.
  3. Select one of the following options: shareable_options_-_whole_page.png
    • Printable PDF - Download or print out instructions for joining Remind. The PDF provides text or email sign-up options and is available in Spanish, French, and Portuguese.     
      • Tip: Post these in a high-traffic location, such as a classroom door or pick-up area, or send them home as a handout or email attachment.         
    • In-person instructions - If people have their mobile phones with them, they can sign up in seconds via text message. 
      • Tip: Share this information in an announcement or include it somewhere with high visibility, like a board, syllabus, or newsletter.
    • Share a link - With this link, people can join your class directly from their phones or computers without entering your class code. 
      • Tip: Copy and paste this link into an email (or on a website where you feel comfortable sharing this information).
  4. Let your class participants know that they must follow all the required prompts they receive on their phone or email (such as replying with their name or date of birth) because they won't appear in your class until they do. Shareable_instructions_-_all_together.png

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