How do I add people to my class?
| For Remind class owners |
Click here if you're an administrator. Click here if you need to add people in one class to another.
Note: A user needs to be either a teacher, parent, or student role to be able to add a participant to a certain class.
There are two ways to add people to a class in Remind:
- 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.
- 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):
- Select the class from the Classes owned section in the left navigation menu.
- Click on the Add People button on the top right.
- Select a role (Students, Parents, Teachers) for the individuals you want to add.
- 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.
- An email address is required when inviting teachers to Remind. You can also add a phone number or secondary email address.
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Click here to see accepted preferred language codes
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- 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.
- 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:
Add people directly to your class
These instructions are only for Remind Hub customers. Click here if you're a Remind Chat customer.
- Select the class from the Classes owned section in the left navigation menu.
- Click on the Add People button on the top right.
- Select a role (Students, Parents, Teachers) for the individuals you want to add.
- 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.
- An email address is required when inviting teachers to Remind. You can also add a phone number or secondary email address.
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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 150 people at a time and up to 1,000 people per day.
- Repeat step 4 for each additional class participant role you need to add.
- 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:
Add People to your class in bulk
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- Save your Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Share instructions for joining a class
- Select the class from the Classes owned section in the left navigation menu.
- Click on the Add people button on the top right.
- Select one of the following options:
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.