Seesaw

Seesaw Learning

About this app

Beloved by teachers around the world, Seesaw is the only educational platform built specifically to address the unique needs of elementary classrooms. Seesaw brings together high-quality instruction, authentic assessments that drive deep learning insights, and inclusive communication – in one place. With Seesaw, students have the power to show their thinking and share their learning, ideas and creativity with their teachers and families.

Used by 10M teachers, students and families in over a third of elementary schools in the US. Beyond the US, Seesaw is used in over 130 countries!

Teachers love Seesaw—out of 1000 teachers surveyed, 92% said Seesaw makes their lives easier.

Built on extensive educational research, Seesaw is validated by industry-leading third-party LearnPlatform as a designated evidence-based intervention, eligible for ESSA Federal Funding with Tier IV designation.

Awarded the ISTE Seal of Alignment. Grounded in learning science research and based on practitioner experience, the ISTE Standards ensure that using technology for learning can create high-impact, sustainable, scalable and equitable learning experiences for all learners.

High Quality Instruction
- Enable teachers to deliver high-quality, standards-aligned instruction that encourages student voice and choice
- Multimodal tools make learning accessible and engaging. Tools include video, voice, screen recording, photos, drawing, labeling and more!
- Present to Class mode designed for front of class modeling, whole class instruction and discussions
- Assign activities to all students for center/stations work or whole class independent work. Use student groups to easily differentiate assignments
- Over 1600 research-based and ready-to-teach lessons created by Seesaw’s curriculum experts with whole group instruction videos, 1:1 or small group practice activities and formative assessments. Includes robust lesson plans to support teacher implementation.
- 100k ready-to-assign activities created by our community of educators and 1600+ ready-to-teach scaffolded lessons

Inclusive Family Engagement
- Engage families as partners in the learning process through inclusive two-way communication through portfolios and messages
- Provide a window into the classroom and insight into their child's progress with frequent sharing of student posts and assignments
- Robust messaging with built-in translation into over 100 home languages
- Message Progress Reports to families to keep them informed

Digital Portfolios
- Capture learning completed within and outside of Seesaw through digital portfolios that showcase student growth.
- Organize student work by folder and skill
- Simplify parent-teacher conferences and report cards

Assessment to Support Data-Driven Decisions
- Routinely assess student learning to glean meaningful insights into their understanding and make data-informed instructional decisions
- Formative assessments with auto-graded questions provided detailed and actionable reporting
- Tie skills and standards to activities for easy progress monitoring of key learning objectives

Accessible and Differentiated Learning
- Enable developmentally appropriate, accessible, and differentiated instruction to reach and engage all learners

Seesaw is COPPA, FERPA and GDPR compliant. Learn more at web.seesaw.me/privacy.

Need help? Visit our Help Center at help.seesaw.me.

Ratings and reviews

This app is so clunky and slow to use on a phone. It being the preferred way to communicate with my child's teacher makes it a very frustrating experience. It's slow to load, slow to respond to the selection to reply to a message, won't attach media (photos, etc). I also can't use the back button to get out of the app. Honestly I wish our school district would use another method. Seesaw is awful.

Update: I just updated the app and I still am unable to use the back button with the app. I initially loved the app. It's a great way to communicate with my son's teacher. However, I am unable to use the back button on my device anymore, I agree with others about being able to add more than one picture, and can you put teacher image announcements back in the main feed as well that was helpful for me to keep track of important information without searching for it in messages.

So difficult to find messages on this platform. Would rather school went back to just using emails, was much easier. Would be better to arrange the messages by topic, rather than by who sent the message. Also having a calendar view to see the events that have been planned would be very beneficial. Only using this app now as it's our schools only method of communication now.

What’s new

- Fix issue where back swipe/back button does not work as desired
- Fix Accessibility button in the Library
- Fix small bugs impacting the Creative Canvas
- Update the Shape of the Green Add Button
- Minor fixes and product/feature enhancements