Tips for driving engagement with Remind
For administrators with Remind Hub.
The Statistics tab in your Remind admin dashboard provides you with usage data to monitor your school's engagement over time, viewing the data by day, week, or month. You can also see how your community interacts with Remind most: app, web, text, or email. Administrators, teachers, and parents can use Remind to become more effective engagement drivers in their community.
This article covers the following topics:
Administrator Engagement
Include Remind in your communication policy
- List Remind as the/an approved communication platform for your district, school, or organization.
- Encourage use by utilizing Remind for district-wide communication.
- Send notifications about schedule changes, reminders about form completion dates, and other district-wide events.
Provide training
- Schedule training sessions for your admin users during designated professional development time.
- Utilize Remind free training resources:
Drive district initiatives with Remind
- Ask school administrators to use Remind to send Social Emotional Learning messages to parents.
- Use Remind for messaging about absences, school meal payments, and overdue library books.
Celebrate building-level success with Remind during monthly administrator meetings.
- Ask school administrators to share specific use cases and their impact. Include sample messages and student, parent, and teacher testimonials.
Teacher Engagement
Create a communication policy
- Create a communication policy to set expectations about how often, when, and what type of Remind messages should be sent.
- Examples:
- Send one class announcement weekly with an overview of the week's assignments.
- Send a monthly newsletter to parents at the beginning of each month listing upcoming topics and expected outcomes.
- Send positive messages to five students per week.
- Examples:
- Track usage by downloading a full teacher activity report from your admin dashboard's Overview tab (standard dashboard) or by viewing messages sent data in the Statistics tab (Enhanced Data dashboard).
Provide training
- Schedule training sessions for your teachers and staff during designated professional development time.
- Utilize Remind free training resources:
- Teacher/Staff Onboarding Guide
- Remind Learning Center
- Download and customize a training presentation
- Incentivize teacher training attendance with stipends or credits.
Share use cases from your staff by capturing example teacher messages from the Overview tab or by viewing recent class announcements from the Classes tab.
- During staff meetings share examples of effective Remind messages. Highlight positive affirmations, photo attachments, and assignment reminders.
Identify champion users and ask them to be onsite Remind Trainers (Use our training resources).
- Encourage them to host lunch and learn sessions for their teammates.
- Encourage them to host follow-up training sessions or "office hours."
Provide additional support for teachers with low usage and support them with Remind self-serve resources and additional training.
Parent Engagement
Provide training during back-to-school nights, PTA/PTO meetings, or other parent meetings.
- Utilize Remind free training resources:
- Parent Onboarding Guide
- Download and customize a training presentation (available in English and Spanish)
Encourage your school PTO leader to join Remind and create a PTO Remind Class for parents to join.
- Send messages to drive attendance for PTO events and to drive participation in school fundraisers.
Send school newsletters through Remind in addition to other communication channels.
- Include the newsletter as a file/PDF or as a Google Drive file through your connected account.
Publicize Remind in your building by hanging posters that encourage parents to join.
- Have teachers hang posters on their door with their class code during Back to School Night or the first day of school to encourage parents to join.
Include information about Remind on your school website and other external parent resources.
- Post a principal's message about Remind and have teachers post their class codes to their classroom pages.
- Let parents know if you use a single sign-on feature to make it easy for them to access their Remind account.