1. Using the Remind App to facilitate Learning
Issam Affaneh and Phillip Wren
Qatar University, Foundation Department of English (FPDE)

2. Qatar also ranks in the top 10 in Wi-Fi and Internet accessibility
Qatar ranks in the top 10 in time spent on smartphones (nationals and non-nationals)
Qatar also ranks in the top 10 in Wi-Fi and Internet accessibility
worldbank.org March 24, 2015

3. Reasons to use a smartphone in class (Odom, 2015)
Learner-centric
Collaborative interactions
Motivates students to learn
Supports alternative learning environments
Increases teacher/student communication
“Remind is used in over 70% of US public schools”

4. Remind functions WhatsApp-like Similar layout
Individual or group chats
No phone numbers needed!
Announcements: Teachers update students or send documents such as PDF, Word/Excel/PPT, voice notes, videos, pictures (most formats – JPG is recommended)
Chat: Teachers can also choose to initiate personalized, group, or whole class conversations. Students can share information and teachers can project for class to see.

5. Reasons we love this app/website
Clarity in communication
Personalizing communication
Ease of content delivery
Web-links
Handouts
Communicating with Parents (grade k-12)
Build relationships
Listen to parents
Document every communication
Used in over 70% of US school

6. Quick overview of Remind
Follow me

7. Let’s join remind Computer, smartphone or tablet
Change language setting on your phone to ENGLISH
Let’s join remind
Tips:
When joining Remind, make sure to use a full name… especially if you are named Muhammad or Fatima

8. Let’s start the workshop
Teachers –
Create a class
In settings: “People in this class can see and message each other”
Set Office Hours
Add a profile picture
Get in groups of 4 to 5
1 Person = Teacher
Others = Students
Teacher – get students to join a class
Teacher - Send students a welcome announcement, Students respond
Teacher – create a scheduled announcement for 5 minutes from now
Tips:
When you create a class, make the class code easy to remember
If you want to send a long ANNOUNCEMNT with more than 140 characters, you can send a screenshot of the text or a file

9. more than Words Teachers send pictures to the students
Students do the same
Teachers share a Youtube video to the class
Students send a website to the teacher
Teachers send a voice recording to a specific student
Students send a voice recording to another student
Teacher put students in pairs
Send messages between each other
Tips:
Once you send an ANNOUNCEMENT, you can’t take it back… Just like on most messaging apps

10. Spring cleaning Teachers choose one student to remove from the class
Other students attempt to leave the class
Teachers try to archive the class
Tips
You can reuse or restore a class that has been archived

11. Joining with parents (under 13)
Research using Remind at a Mixed-Income Middle school “revealed easy and convenient messages resulted in a higher response rate from parents/guardians (Opp & Nisbet, 2017).”
If students input their birthdate incorrectly, don’t worry. You can simply have them sign up again with a different .

12. Other Features Website has more options under Account
Can connect services like Quizlet or OneDrive
Can post an HTML Widget of your class to a website
You can export PDF records of all announcements sent in class
You can export a list of all participants in a class
See list of Blocked Users
Under Organize Classes, can see all classes ever made in Remind
In a one-on-one chat with a student, you can be sent an record of all interactions (Phone and Website versions)