Remind.com
Remind.com is free and a great tool for parent communication. Works great for coaches!
And best of all its free and only takes 15 seconds to set up!!! That grabs teacher’s attention right away. We are always looking for inexpensive ways to make our lives easier as well as the lives of the families we are dealing with. It is a site that will allow you to contact your students/parents via text message without having to give out your phone number.
Here is how Remind.com works. You can visit their website or download the app for your device and create a free account. Once your account is created you have the ability to create classes within your account. This will allow you to make a “class” to whom you can send messages. You are able to create multiple classes, so you can have one for parents as well as classes for each of your student groups. For each class you create you will receive a code along with a number to text the code to. Give that information to each person you want to invite to that class. When they text the code to the number given they receive a text back asking for their name. Once they reply with their name they are registered to that class. There is nothing for you to do with the information…it is done for you automatically!
