Remind is one of my favorite tools for keeping parents informed about what’s happening in your school. Last week Remind released a new feature that could help you organize and keep track of registrations for school events like field trips. The new feature is called activities.

Remind’s new activities feature enables you to create activity registrations that are sent through Remind’s platform to parents and students. Teachers and or school administrators create the activities and invitations are sent to specified students and or parents. Parents and students can respond through the Remind apps to register for the activity.

Activities created in Remind can be free events or events that require a payment such as for a field trip. If you choose to create an activity that requires a payment, parents can pay through the Remind app. Remind charges a transaction fee for events that require a payment. The transaction fee is paid by the parent in a manner that is similar to buying tickets to a sporting event and having a “convenience fee” tacked on to the purchase. As Audrey Waters pointed out, the transaction fee is clearly part of Remind’s plan to move away from reliance on venture capital funding.

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Free events should be fairly easy to create and track in Remind’s activities function. There could be plenty of problems enabling the payment option in schools. The people at Remind must be anticipating that because they have published a bunch of resources about managing activities and money collected through the app.