How do I send an organization-wide, individual, or class message?
Remind Hub administrators.
As an administrator, you can send district, school, and class-wide announcements and individual and group message messages to your community via the web or app.
You can also send targeted messages by role to teachers, parents, students, administrators, and staff.
This article contains the following sections:
Send an organization-wide message
- Log in to your Remind account online.
- Click
New message in the upper left corner. - Click Message or Urgent Message.
- Select the recipient(s) of the district or school-wide announcement, and click Continue.
- Click the Everyone filter to send a role-based announcement to teachers, students, parents, admins, and/or staff from the drop-down menu. You can also filter by SIS link or grade level for students and parents. The staff filter is coming soon.
- You can add individuals to a class announcement or select additional classes to send the same announcement to multiple classes.
- Type your message and click Continue.
- Select Send to confirm your action.
View announcements
You can view the Announcements you sent to your district or school on the Messages tab. The announcements will be organized by message recipient target - Everyone, Parents, Teachers, Students, Admins, and Staff. Click an announcement to view its message delivery summary.
Send an individual message
- Log in to your Remind account online.
- Click New message on the left navigation menu.
- Select Message.
- Type in the name of a teacher, student, parent, administrator, or staff in the Search bar to locate an individual participant at your organization and to initiate a conversation with them.
- Click Continue.
- Type your message.
- Click Send.
Send multiple people or classes a message
- Click New message on the upper left.
- Choose Message.
- Look for the people or classes to which you want to send the message via the search bar or select recipient(s) from a school or class.
- Click Everyone under a district, school, or class to select a target audience for a role-based message - teachers, students, parents, admins, and/or staff.
- After selecting your recipients(s), you’ll see them appear under Selected on the right-hand side of the queue. Click the X to remove a chosen recipient.
- Click Continue, and you’ll be directed to the composer screen, where you can type your message
- Click Send.
View Conversations
View individual and group messages under the Conversations section of your Messages dashboard. Your most recent conversation will be at the top. Click on a conversation to view the message history.
iOS
- Open the Remind app.
- Select a class.
- Tap the pencil icon on the bottom right.
- Choose Announcement to send a message to a class or Conversation to send to an individual or group of people.
- Select the school, class, group of people, and/or person you want to receive your message.
- If you select a class, tap Everyone to choose a role-based group from the drop-down menu - teachers, students, parents, admins, or staff. The staff filter is coming soon.
- You can also add individuals to a class announcement or select additional classes to send the same announcement to multiple classes.
- Tap Next.
- Type your message.
- Tap Send.
Android
- Open the Remind app.
- Select a class.
- Tap the pencil icon on the screen's bottom right side.
- Choose Announcement to send a message to a class, Group conversation to send to multiple people, or Individual message to send to one person.
- If you select a class, tap Everyone to choose a role-based group from the drop-down menu - teachers, students, parents, admins, or staff. The staff filter is coming soon.
- You can also add individuals to a class announcement or select additional classes to send the same announcement to multiple classes.
- Select the class, group of people, and/or person you want to receive your message.
- Tap Next.
- Type your message.
- Tap Send.
Resources
Use the following features below to enhance your message:
- Translate: Click translate, and a menu will appear with a search bar at the top where you can translate your message in over 90 languages.
- Drag and drop: Easily drag and drop files such as photos or documents from your computer to attach with your message.
- Add to your message: Link your Google Drive, Google Classroom, and One Drive to your message.
- Schedule: Schedule your message to be sent later by clicking the calendar, selecting a date, and then clicking a time on the time field. Your message will be scheduled at the selected date and time.