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Post by ahall005 on Jan 5, 2022 9:29:27 GMT -6
Does anyone use any good apps for communicating with your team? Schedule updates, reminders, ext. I don't teach in the building that I coach at and am looking for the best way to communicate with my players. I don't text with players, I have set up team facebook and twitter pages but most of the kids don't have either of those and I am too old for Instagram or tik tok. Thanks!
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Post by poundit52 on Jan 5, 2022 15:09:20 GMT -6
Try the Remind app (it might be called Remind 101). I believe that it’s free and you can easily add/communicate with both players and parents. Because it is an app, you don’t actually have anyone’s cell phone number (parents can be touchy about that) but all communication shows up as a regular text message.
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Post by M4 on Jan 5, 2022 20:00:50 GMT -6
Try the Remind app (it might be called Remind 101). I believe that it’s free and you can easily add/communicate with both players and parents. Because it is an app, you don’t actually have anyone’s cell phone number (parents can be touchy about that) but all communication shows up as a regular text message. What’s app is good. Set up a group chat. You can print off a QR invite and have your kids scan and join the group Free. Easy. You can private message kids. And keeps records of your convos |
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Post by migoo33 on Jan 6, 2022 7:33:40 GMT -6
SportsYou is the best one that I've found. I've used it for a few years now. It has everything that I needed and was a huge tool for us. Parents loved it. It has a calendar feature that you can add anything to and will send reminders, a schedule feature, you can load video/pictures to share, and it has unlimited characters. I used to use Remind, but there is a limit on how many characters that can be used per post. In SportsYou, you can type out huge messages and send them with no issues. And, it's free!
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Post by CanyonCoach on Jan 6, 2022 7:49:35 GMT -6
SportsYou is the best one that I've found. I've used it for a few years now. It has everything that I needed and was a huge tool for us. Parents loved it. It has a calendar feature that you can add anything to and will send reminders, a schedule feature, you can load video/pictures to share, and it has unlimited characters. I used to use Remind, but there is a limit on how many characters that can be used per post. In SportsYou, you can type out huge messages and send them with no issues. And, it's free! Our school now has 7 programs that use SportsYou and the next most used is our schools canvas classes. Parents like SportsYou because they can create groups for parent led activities. |
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Post by coachwoodall on Jan 6, 2022 8:44:03 GMT -6
Try the Remind app (it might be called Remind 101). I believe that it’s free and you can easily add/communicate with both players and parents. Because it is an app, you don’t actually have anyone’s cell phone number (parents can be touchy about that) but all communication shows up as a regular text message. What’s app is good. Set up a group chat. You can print off a QR invite and have your kids scan and join the group Free. Easy. You can private message kids. And keeps records of your convos plus you can have many subgroups using the same app... coaches, DBs, starting offense, etc... |
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Post by rudyrude9 on Jan 6, 2022 9:59:11 GMT -6
Hudl works good. All your players should have hudl on their phones
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Post by hornetfan63 on Jan 7, 2022 14:57:27 GMT -6
SportsYou is what we have started using for the last two years. It works well.
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Post by teachcoach on Jan 7, 2022 21:04:05 GMT -6
I would second the Remind app. My district sets it up and controls it. I also have it for my daughters activities in her school, activities such as band and sports that are outside of my district on the same app. All of the messages are visible to the district which takes pressure off of the staff and you can call through it as well with no numbers attached.
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Post by wolfden12 on Jan 8, 2022 9:44:07 GMT -6
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Post by aznando on Jan 9, 2022 16:47:31 GMT -6
We use Whats App, but some of these other sports centric chat apps intrigue me.
Aznando
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