How do I add people directly to my school or class?
For Remind Hub administrators. If you already have people in your organization, click here to learn how to add them to a class in bulk.
You can create Remind accounts for your organization's teachers, staff members, students, and parents without transferring data from your student information system.
This article contains the following sections:
- Choose how you want to add people
- Create a class
- Add people to a class or school
- How to add co-owners to a class
- Additional Resources
Choose how you want to add people
There are two different ways to manually add individuals to your organization:
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Create classes for your teachers and add parents, students, and/or staff to them.
- Anytime you add individuals to a class linked to your school, they'll automatically get added to your school. We highly recommend choosing this method as it is the fastest and easiest way to add people to your Remind community.
- Anytime you add individuals to a class linked to your school, they'll automatically get added to your school. We highly recommend choosing this method as it is the fastest and easiest way to add people to your Remind community.
- Add teachers and other staff members to your school.
- You can have your teachers log in to their Remind account, create their classes, and add their students and parents to their respective classes. If you choose this method, we highly recommend you lead training sessions for your staff as part of implementing Remind. For more information, check out our article on training staff members here.
- You can have your teachers log in to their Remind account, create their classes, and add their students and parents to their respective classes. If you choose this method, we highly recommend you lead training sessions for your staff as part of implementing Remind. For more information, check out our article on training staff members here.
Create a class
- Log in to your Remind account on the web.
- Click Add class on the left navigation menu.
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Select Create new class.
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Add a Class name.
- As you enter the class name, a Class code will automatically populate.
- Click the dropdown menu to select the School the class should be linked to.
- Uncheck the I will only message people 13 or older box if the class has students under 13.
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Click Create. The class will automatically appear under your Classes owned list.
- Repeat steps 2 through 8 for additional classes.
- Click here to learn how to add students, parents, teachers, or staff to the class.
Add people to a class or school
Things to keep in mind
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To add people to a class you created, select the class from the Classes owned section of your left navigation menu → click the Add people button on the top right.
To add people to a school you created, click on the desired school on the left navigation menu or click your district → click the Schools tab → click on the school → and click the Add people button on the top right.
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If you want to add people in bulk to a class or school, skip to this section and use a Google or Excel spreadsheet. To add a few individuals:
- Select their role - Students, Parents, Teachers, or Staff.
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Enter their first name, last name (optional), phone or email address, secondary phone or email (optional), and preferred language (optional) in the respective column.
- You must enter an email address for every teacher and staff member.
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Click here to see accepted preferred language codes
Language ISO-639-1 Code English en Spanish es Chinese zh French fr Portuguese pt Afrikaans af Albanian sq Amharic am Arabic ar Armenian hy Azerbaijani az Basque eu Belarusian be Bengali bn Bosnian bs Bulgarian bg Catalan ca Chichewa ny Croatian hr Czech cs Danish da Dutch nl English en Esperanto eo Estonian et Finnish fi French fr Galician gl Georgian ka German de Greek el Gujarati gu Haitian Creole ht Hausa ha Hebrew he Hindi hi Hungarian hu Icelandic is Indonesian id Irish ga Italian it Japanese ja Javanese jv Kannada kn Kazakh kk Khmer km Korean ko Latin la Lao lo Lithuanian lt Latvian lv Macedonian mk Malagasy mg Malay ms Malayalam ml Maltese mt Māori mi Marathi mr Mongolian mn Myanmar (Burmese) my Nepali ne Norwegian no Persian fa Polish pl Portuguese pt Punjabi pa Romanian ro Russian ru Serbian sr Sinhala si Slovak sk Slovenian sl Somali so Spanish es Samoan sm Sundanese su Swahili sw Swedish sv Tagalog tl Tajik tg Tamil ta Telugu te Thai th Turkish tr Ukrainian uk Urdu ur Uzbek uz Vietnamese vi Welsh cy Yiddish yi Yoruba yo Zulu zu Language ISO-639-2 Code Cebuano ceb Hawaiian haw Hmong hmn Kurdish kur Pashto pus Shona sna Language BCP-47 Code Chinese zh - Although only five rows will show initially, more rows will appear as you add information up to the limit of 150.
- 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.
- Repeat steps 1-2 above for each additional class participant role you need to add.
- Click Add people on the bottom left.
- Select their role - Students, Parents, Teachers, or Staff.
All the individuals you added will appear on the People lists for the class or school. You may need to refresh the page to see the new entries.
Add people in bulk
- Open Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel, and create a spreadsheet with four separate tabs - one for Students, Parents, Teachers, and Staff.
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On the Students tab, enter the first name and last name (optional) of each student in the first and second columns respectively. Then enter their phone or email address in the third column, an optional second point of contact in the fourth column, and their preferred language in the fifth column.
- Enter contact information for Parents, Teachers, and Staff members on their respective tabs.
- You must provide an email address for every teacher and staff member.
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Click here to see accepted preferred language codes
Language ISO-639-1 Code English en Spanish es Chinese zh French fr Portuguese pt Afrikaans af Albanian sq Amharic am Arabic ar Armenian hy Azerbaijani az Basque eu Belarusian be Bengali bn Bosnian bs Bulgarian bg Catalan ca Chichewa ny Croatian hr Czech cs Danish da Dutch nl English en Esperanto eo Estonian et Finnish fi French fr Galician gl Georgian ka German de Greek el Gujarati gu Haitian Creole ht Hausa ha Hebrew he Hindi hi Hungarian hu Icelandic is Indonesian id Irish ga Italian it Japanese ja Javanese jv Kannada kn Kazakh kk Khmer km Korean ko Latin la Lao lo Lithuanian lt Latvian lv Macedonian mk Malagasy mg Malay ms Malayalam ml Maltese mt Māori mi Marathi mr Mongolian mn Myanmar (Burmese) my Nepali ne Norwegian no Persian fa Polish pl Portuguese pt Punjabi pa Romanian ro Russian ru Serbian sr Sinhala si Slovak sk Slovenian sl Somali so Spanish es Samoan sm Sundanese su Swahili sw Swedish sv Tagalog tl Tajik tg Tamil ta Telugu te Thai th Turkish tr Ukrainian uk Urdu ur Uzbek uz Vietnamese vi Welsh cy Yiddish yi Yoruba yo Zulu zu Language ISO-639-2 Code Cebuano ceb Hawaiian haw Hmong hmn Kurdish kur Pashto pus Shona sna Language BCP-47 Code Chinese zh
- Save your Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
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Select the Students role on the Add People dashboard in Remind.
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Copy all the information on the Students tab in your Google or Excel spreadsheet, and paste it onto the Students section in Remind. Do not copy and paste the headings, such as first and last name, email, phone number, etc.
- Repeat Step 5 for the Parents, Teachers, and Staff tab on the Google Sheet or Excel spreadsheet for the respective tabs in Remind. Be sure to copy from the correct tab on your spreadsheet and paste the information to the same tab in Remind.
- If you need to start over, simply 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 Remind dashboard.
All the individuals you added will appear on the People list of the class or the People list of your school. You may need to refresh the page to see the new entries.
Add co-owners to a class
There are two ways to add a co-owner to a class. You can add them through your class's Settings dashboard or People dashboard.
Once you've made a person an owner of a class, you cannot remove their ownership. They have to remove themselves via their Remind account. However, you can remove your ownership of a class at any time.
Depending on their notification preferences, we'll send the new class owner an email or an SMS about the change.
From the Settings page
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From the People page
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Additional Resources
- After adding students, parents, teachers, and staff to your organization, we highly recommend connecting students to their parent or guardian's account. On the People list, click the plus sign
under the Family members column to add a parent/guardian. Learn more here.
- Once you've created accounts for everyone in your community, notify them about their new Remind account. You can use our non-SIS-linked email templates here.
- You can update the contact information of people in your community via your dashboard at any time. Learn more here.
- You can manually add people to your school and/or create classes for them instead of creating SIS-linked accounts or classes using an SIS sync method. However, if you want to manually add people and use an SIS Sync method to provision accounts, you'll want to read our article here.