Ottumwa Community School District
Teacher Webinar Training
September 11, 2020
Team Introductions
Brandy Dean, Customer Support Specialist
Background in food service and education
Started with Remind in June
Fun fact: My name came from the John Wayne movie “Hatari”
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Audience cameras and mics will be turned off for today’s session.
Instead, we’ll be using the Chat feature in Zoom.
Meeting Norms
Objectives for Today
Important Notes
Today’s Agenda
What is Remind all About?
First, here’s Remind in a nutshell
Reach students and parents when you need to—on any device.
Remind is built for education, so personal information always stays private.
Administrators and teachers use Remind to help strengthen relationships with students and parents.
Reach families on the devices they use
Parents are not picking up the phone or listening to voicemail
40
of phone calls go to voicemail
33
%
%
of voicemails are listened to
Reach families on the devices they use
Parents are not picking up the phone or listening to voicemail, but they do open and read their text messages.
99
of text messages are opened
90
%
%
of text messages are read within three minutes of receipt
Why teachers use Remind
�85% say they save time in their day��65% say they increase parent participation in events�
92% say that messages on Remind are more likely to be read than other forms of communication
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Family Engagement
Chat about it:
How Does Remind Work?
Claim SIS Sync Rostered Classes
View all classes owned and joined
View class announcements and �1:1 conversations
How to Create a Class
Choose a name for your class.
Choose a class code that people will use to join your class.
Be sure to join to your school (unless this class is not related)
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Add people to your class
If you’re in class, use In-person Instructions.
If you’re sending instructions home, go to Printable PDFs.
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Messaging your way
Send announcements to your entire class, or start conversations with groups and individuals.
You can also message just the students or just the parents in your class.
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Messaging
Announcement:
A message sent to all members in a class.
Use Cases:
Messaging
Role-Based:
A message sent to type of members in a class (teachers, parents, students)
Use Cases:
Messaging
1:1 Conversation:
An individual message between you and one other participant.
Use Cases:
Messaging
Small Group Conversations:
A group conversation with up to 9 recipients.
Use Cases:
Reach ELL families
Translate messages into 80+ languages before you send.
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Identify your ELL students and parents and create groups to send exclusive messages in the appropriate language.
BEST PRACTICE
Teacher
Parent
Remind App Auto-Translate
Share photos and other files
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BEST PRACTICE
Integrated Apps
Ensure assignments and resources are delivered to students and parents.
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Use SurveyMonkey, SignUp, and SignUp genius to drive parent engagement.
BEST PRACTICE
Integrating with Google Classroom
Schoology
After you add Remind as an external tool to your course, you can open your Remind message compose directly in Schoology.
This will allow you to easily distribute Schoology assignments via Remind messages.
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Make a voice call
Use Remind to call members of your community to keep personal number private.
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Set a cadence for how often staff should call home to praise student behavior and foster a supportive school culture.
BEST PRACTICE
Keep a call log
Calls are automatically logged in message history
Record call details in call notes
Email call history to share
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Account Settings
Choose how to receive notifications
Set office hours
Class Settings
Customize class for each class.
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Control class settings district or school wide
BEST PRACTICE
Need Support?
Reach out from your school email address to support@remindhq.com for prioritized support!
Help Center
From our help center at rmd.me/help
Directly from your Remind account!
Crafting an Effective Message
2pm: Class announcement:
Conferences start today after school, please come at your designated time.
Chat about it:
What makes this message ineffective?
Tell the group in chat!
Audience
Purpose
Time
Keep it Simple
Make it Personal
8am: Parents: Parent teacher conferences begin next week! I’m looking forward to discussing your student’s progress and setting goals! Come see their recent book report projects! You can sign up for a time using the attached link.
Chat about it:
What make this message effective?
Tell the group in chat!
Building a Message Campaign
How do you currently use backwards planning?
Stages of a Message Campaign:
Example
I want (audience) to do (desired outcome) by (date).
I want parents to attend a parent teacher
conference by April 19th, 2019.
Learnings
Chat about it:
What is one things you learned today?
How did we do?
Let’s revisit today’s objectives…
Next Steps and Resources
Resources
Get Help:
Training:
Resources
Q&A