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 though 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

I've had a hard time using the app. When it works it's fine but it will stop working and when you open it, it will white screen with a purple seesaw logo and it never seems to open. I try deleting it and reinstalling it. It will work for a couple of days. I've now done this about 8 times. I have a new top of the line Samsung. It shouldn't be this problematic.

I have been using Seesaw for the last few years with my students. The families have mentioned how much they enjoy the interactive and flexibility of using Seesaw. The children can be creative when completing their tasks and videos. As a teacher, I have enjoyed seeing the students' growth throughout the year. At the start of the year, the parents were helping students complete tasks but by the end of the year, they were completing tasks independently. Sending feedback to students is great, too

1. I need to be able to add multiple photos at once. 2. I need the notifications and inbox to be separate. 3. I need do not disturb/out of the office hours. 4. I need captions to go back to how they used to be. It's harder to add them now. 5. I need add a photo to go back to go it used to be. You added one additional step to add a photo from device which is time consuming. Please separate add from drive/device/etc. again. 6. There are numerous other things I'd change about Seesaw itself.

What's new

- Increased the number of teachers per class from 20 to 30 teachers
- Fixed issue where "copy and edit" activities don't automatically show in the library.
- Fixed issue where the app would not load the "Select Sign-In Role" page.
- Minor bug fixes and product/feature enhancements