For Remind Hub district and school administrators. Available on the web only.

With default class settings, you can set expectations for class-level communication across your organization. 

If you're a district administrator, your default class settings can apply to all schools across your district. Default settings are district recommendations within each school’s default class settings. School administrators can only make changes to their organization's default class settings if a district administrator has not locked the default class settings for the district.

If you're a district or school administrator, class owners will see your school-wide default class settings on the Settings page of their class. School default recommendations will be listed under each setting. If a district or school administrator locks default settings, class owners cannot update their class settings.

This article contains the following sections:

• Set default class settings

• Default class settings page for school and class

• Details about each class setting

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Set default class settings

To access and update the default class settings for new classes created in your organization:

1. Log in to Remind on the web.
2. Click on your district. Or, select a school if you want to update a specific school's class settings.
3. Select the Settings tab.
4. Click Default class settings on the sidebar.
   • Here, you can set the settings for classes across your organization, which include:
     • Class visibility - Making classes visible so people can find and join them 
     • Require approval to join - Making it mandatory for class owners to approve who joins their class
     • Participant messaging - Setting how class participants message each other 
5. Optional - Check the Apply changes to existing classes box if you want all of the current classes in your organization to have these default settings. If you do not apply changes to existing classes, the changes will only affect new classes created at your organization. Existing and new class owners will still see your organization's default class settings on their Settings page.
6. Optional - Check the Lock settings of existing classes box to prevent anyone from changing the class settings of any classes they own. 
   • When you lock the settings at the district level, district and school administrators won't be able to change the default class settings for individual schools or classes they own.
7. Click Save.                                 
8. Click Apply changes to confirm your action.   

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Default class settings page for school and class

If you're a school administrator and the default class settings are locked at the district level, and you need to change the default class settings for your school, please reach out to your district administrator.

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Details about each class setting

• Class visibility

With class visibility, you can determine whether classes are searchable in Remind and visible on each class owner’s Remind profile. Deselecting this option hides classes from Remind searches and profile views.

• Require approval to join

When you require approval to join, class owners must approve or deny participants who request to join their classes. Participants will receive class announcements once they are manually approved. Anyone you add to a class through an SIS sync or whom a class owner manually adds to their class will be automatically approved to join a class. 

• Participant messaging

With participant messaging, you can choose how participants message others in a class. There are three available options for participant messaging:

1. On: All class participants can view other class members and send messages to anyone, regardless of their role. 
2. Role-based: All class participants can view other class members. But, they can send messages to the class participants who have the same role. For example, parents can view other parents and also students connected to those parents, but they can only message another parent and cannot message students.
3. Off: Class participants cannot view the People list of the class or have conversations with other class participants.

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