Introducing Seesaw to Students

Overview

Before students complete activities in Seesaw, they will need to learn how to sign in and the basics of how Seesaw works.

How to Sign in to Seesaw in SPS

Review the materials for your grade level:

K-1 iPad Directions / Grades 2-5 Chromebook Directions

Seesaw Basics for Students

Seesaw provides videos, lessons plans and information for teachers to use with students. 

Seesaw Codes

You may read about class codes on the Seesaw website, but we do not use them in SPS because Tech Services has automated the class, student account, and enrollment processes.

That's right, our district automatically creates classes and enrolls students for you! 

SPS classroom teachers should disregard information from Seesaw regarding the following:

Although you may be tempted, NEVER, EVER change the Class Settings "student sign in mode." 

This setting MUST be left as "email/Google" as shown in the image on this page.

Always keep this setting.

Let's Get Started

Watch the What is Seesaw For Students video.

Review Lesson Plans

Your next step is to open a resource document from Seesaw. Remember, there are parts of it that are irrelevant to our district that you will skip over.

The resource document contains materials that you may want to use with your students. These include:

Lesson 1: Introduction to Seesaw/Create a Post (the rest is not specific to SPS)

 Lesson 2: Respond to an Activity

Please IGNORE all sign in information contained in the document provided by Seesaw.

Click here to open the document.

Click here for a Create a Post poster.

Click here for a Messages poster for your students.

Responding to Activities

Teaching your students how to respond to an activity (Lesson 2) is critical. 

In this short video, Maple's Ed Tech Leader Amber Verkler walks through how she introduces her students to an activity in Seesaw. 

Seesaw as Sample Student.mp4

Next Step

Click here to learn about Seesaw Family.