How do I send translated messages as a teacher, parent, or student?
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When you use our translation feature, we'll automatically translate your message, and send it to all of your recipients in their preferred language. If your account is set up to receive replies, you'll also receive messages in your preferred language.
Please note that auto translations is currently only available for SMS users whose accounts are connected to a Remind Hub organization.
This article contains the following sections:
Prerequisites
Before you can send a translated message, make sure you've already:
- Set your preferred language for your Remind account.
- Linked your class to your organization.
- Added a preferred language to each of your message recipients' account.
Notes
- Only Google Translate's 90+ languages are available for translation.
- The default setting for translations is off for all messages. Once you activate it, the default setting for translations will be on for all messages; so you do not have to activate the feature every time you send a message. You can turn translations off at any time. Once you do, the default setting for all future messages will be off until you turn it on again.
- If you add a new participant to your class after you've scheduled a message, and their preferred language is not already a part of the list of languages scheduled, we will not translate the message into that user’s language.
- Ex. You've scheduled a message to go out in Spanish, English, and French. If you add a participant whose preferred language is German, we will not send them a message in German. However, if you add a participant whose language is Spanish or French, we'll send them a translated message.
- At the moment, you can only edit and turn off translations on the web. You cannot do so via the Remind app.
- The Remind app is available in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian), and Simplified Chinese. Learn more about setting your mobile device to one of our supported languages.
Send a translated message
Web
- Click
New message located on the upper left. - Choose your message recipients.
- Click Continue.
- Type your message, and then click the translation icon
. - Check the Translate this message box.
- The list shows the number of participants that will receive a translated message in each language.
- Optional: Select a language on the list, and click the dropdown menu to either preview the auto-translated message, edit the translation, or turn translation off for a specific language.
- Note 1: You can make an edit to a translated message by typing on the message composer or selecting Edit.
- Note 2: The edited translation will not reflect any changes you make to the original message.
- Note 3: When you disable translations for specific languages, the recipients will receive the message in the language that you write the message in. For example, if you write a message in English, and disable translations for users whose preferred language is French, they will receive the message in English and not in French.
- Click Send.
- All participants that have a preferred language associated with their account as well as have translations on for their language will receive the message in their chosen language via their notification preference. Please note that SMS users will only receive a translated message if they are connected to a Remind Hub organization.
- Message recipients can always click the message they received to see the English translation.
iOS app
The preferred language feature is only available on the latest version of the Remind app. You must update your Remind app to our latest version before you can follow the instructions below to send translated messages.
- Open the Remind app.
- Select a class.
- Tap the message icon
on the bottom right corner of the screen. - Choose the type of message you want to send.
- Note: You'll only see the option to send an urgent message if you're an administrator connected to an organization with this add-on feature.
- Select the message recipients and click Next.
- Type your message.
- Tap the translation icon .
- Toggle the Translate this message button to the right to activate translations
.
- The list shows the number of participants that will receive a translated message in each language.
- Note: Prior to sending your message, we highly recommend updating the language preference for all message recipients that have No preference set.
- Optional: Select a language on the list to view the translation.
- Click the back arrow to return to the composer screen.
- Select Send.
All participants that have a preferred language associated with their account as well as translations activated for their specific language will receive the message in their home language.
Android app
The preferred language feature is only available on the latest version of the Remind app. You must update your Remind app to our latest version before you can follow the instructions below to send translated messages.
- Open the Remind app.
- Select a class.
- Tap the message icon
on the bottom right corner of the screen. - Choose the type of message you want to send.
- Note: You'll only see the option to send an urgent message if you're an administrator connected to an organization with this add-on feature.
- Select the message recipients and click Next.
- Type your message.
- Tap the translation icon .
- Toggle the Translate this message button to the right to activate translations.
- The list shows the number of participants that will receive a translated message in each language.
- Note: Prior to sending your message, we highly recommend updating the language preference for all message recipients that have No preference set.
- Optional: Preview the translated message. Click the back arrow to return to the composer screen.
- Select Send.
All participants that have a preferred language associated with their account will receive the message in their preferred language.
Translated message examples
