Remind 101 has been busy to start 2014. Earlier this month they introduced the option to download your message history as a PDF. This week they introduced the option to send text messages to subgroups of students and parents. Previously you could only send messages to your entire class list. Now you can send text messages to a group as small as three students and parents. When you use this new feature that Remind 101 calls “send a few” you still have all of the protections of Remind 101’s system that hides your real phone number from students and hides your students’ phone numbers from you.

Learn more about Remind 101’s “send a few” feature in the video below.

Applications for Education

Remind 101’s “send a few” option could be great for sending out messages to the students who were absent from your classroom on a given day, sending reminders to parents who haven’t sent in permission slips, or for sending messages to students who have forgotten to bring in the permission their parents signed. Remind 101’s “send a few” does require that messages be sent to at least three people so it would not be a way to send updates to parents about their individual child’s behavior or grades.