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Seesaw Resource Guides

Seesaw is a student engagement platform that allows students to document their learning, create digital portfolios, and share their work with teachers and parents. It supports multimedia submissions, including photos, videos, drawings, and text.

Leveraged by: Pre-Kindergarten through 5th grade students and elementary staff

See tutorials from real GISD teachers using this tool everyday! Check out the i3 tutorials:

Dive into Seesaw! (blog)
Click, Share, Learn: Ditch the Paper with Seesaw! (blog)
Seesaw in Pre-K (blog)
Seesaw Stars Formative Assessments (video)
Demuestra lo que sabes con Seesaw (video)
Seesaw with Laken J (podcast)

⭐️ Quick Start Guide for Teachers

⭐️ Logging in

Step 1: Launch the Seesaw app in Clever

Step 2: Sign in to your Seesaw account

Once you have opened the Seesaw app, click on "I'm a Teacher".
Select Sign In with Google. Accept the prompts to connect with your Google account.

Step 3: Seeing your classes

Classes will automatically populate for teachers of record at the beginning of the school year. The only set-up required is adding co-teachers, if desired.

⭐️ Learn How to Use Seesaw

Seesaw Basics

Learn the Basics of Seesaw in just 6 steps: https://seesaw.com/get-started/

Getting Started Guides (Prek-2, 3rd-5th) have everything you need to introduce Seesaw to your students, including the Seesaw Student Challenge, task cards, and badges and certificates!

Seesaw Resources for Teachers webpage

Seesaw YouTube Channel

Videos on getting started, mini-trainings, Pd in your PJs, etc.: https://www.youtube.com/c/SeesawEdu/featured

Seesaw Mia Minute Playlist: 5-minute or less videos to learn quick and actionable tips on Seesaw workflow, tools overview, feedback, classroom routines, and more!

Become a Seesaw Pioneer/Ambassador/Certified Educator!

Pioneer: This one-hour course helps you feel comfortable with getting the most out of Seesaw in your classroom: https://web.seesaw.me/pioneer-program. Become a Pioneer to qualify for the next two certs below.

Ambassador: After you’ve journeyed as a Seesaw Pioneer for 6 months, you can qualify to become a Seesaw Ambassador.

Certified Educator: Seesaw Certified Educators have maintained their Seesaw Ambassador status for 3 years and are personally invited into the community to share, lead, and inspire educators globally.

AI-embedded features

Seesaw AI tools, including: question assistant, translate, autograding and feedback, reading fluency assessment, read-with-me narrated passage tool, and more!

Using the Question Assistant for creating Formative Assessment questions

Aligning TEKS and Monitoring Progress

Assign and Grade using TEKS in Seesaw

As teachers review student work, they'll have the ability to grade standards. This data is rolled up for their class and viewable on the Progress Dashboard which can be used to monitor progress across standards at the class level or the student level.

Track Student Progress using TEKS in Seesaw

The Standards View is a dashboard that provides a complete overview of student progress on standards tagged to posts in Seesaw classes. With Progress, teachers and admins can easily track growth and progress against standards. As Standards are graded, all data tracking is reflected in the Standards dashboard, simplifying standards-based report cards, progress reports, data collection for RTI, and differentiation.

Archive Activities

How to archive activities

Archive Class Activities to keep your Seesaw feed manageable, particularly when new students join your class later on in the year. Please note, student responses for the activity are still visible in Student and Family accounts. See the Seesaw Support page: How do teachers archive an Activity for additional information.

Archive an Individual Activity

In the Activities tab, tap the 3 dots (...) at the bottom right of the activity.
Tap Archive Activity.

A screenshot of a digital classroom platform showing a list of activities. The options menu for one activity is expanded, highlighting the "Delete Activity" option in red. Other options in the dropdown include Archive, Edit, Get Student Link, Pin to Top, Print, and Share Activity with Teachers.

Archive Activities in Bulk

In the Activities tab, tap the Bulk Archive Activities
Select date preference; tap Archive Activities.

A screenshot of a purple navigation bar in a classroom platform showing the "Activities" tab selected. On the right side, a button labeled "Bulk Archive Activities" is highlighted, indicating an option to archive multiple activities at once.

Class Settings

Class Settings is where teachers are able to customize their Seesaw class. You can name your class, select your grade level, invite teachers, and select a class color scheme and class icon. Additionally, teachers can manage students and sign in modes, manage families, set up a blog, and manage folders.

Class name: Name your class.
Manage teachers: Invite co-teachers, either by sending them an email invite or generating a co-teacher sign-in link. Remember: All teachers in a class have the same permissions!
Class Theme: Select a color theme for your class. Simply tap on Class Theme and select your preferred color! Class color theme can be changed at any time.
Class Icon: Select an icon to represent your class.

Student-related Class Settings

Student likes and comments: Enable/disable the ability for students to like and comment on their classmates’ posts.
Students can see each other’s work toggle: Enable/disable the ability for students to view each other’s posts in the class journal. Note: Changing this setting will sign out all student devices and students will have to log back in. By default, all students can see each other’s work. This includes posts by the student and posts the student is tagged in, either by you or by other students. To make student Journals private, turn this setting off in Class Settings (🔧). Scroll down to the STUDENTS section and toggle the button OFF for 'Students can see each other's work'.
New items require approval toggle: If toggled on, student posts will have to be approved by a teacher before they are uploaded to the journal and visible to connected family members.
Item editing: Enable/disable the ability for students to edit posts as well as enable/disable students to edit who is tagged in posts

Check for Understanding Resources

This One-Pager for K-2 and 3-5 has ready-made activities to use across content areas. View part of the Seesaw Check for Understanding library. Learn more.

Feedback

Send back work with actionable feedback and monitor student progress with Seesaw Skills. TEKS have already been uploaded to your campus accounts. Learn more.

Formative Assessments

Assessment:

These lightweight assessments allow teachers to frequently and quickly gauge student understanding throughout a content unit. Save time and get insights with a question generator and auto-grading while supporting all students with multimodal tools. This 5 minute video will show you how.

Also, view related support pages:

Icon Shortcuts

Use these shortcuts in the "Student Instructions" portion of Activities.

Type in the text shortcut and it will transform into the icon after you tap save!

"Reflect in Seesaw" Chrome Extension

Adding the Reflect in Seesaw extension to the Chrome browser will allow teachers and students to grab a screen clipping of any website (article, Google Slide, etc.) and it will quickly be placed into Seesaw where you can edit and assign/submit. Both teachers and students can add and use this extension. Learn more.

Standards & Curriculum Alignment Tool

Browse the Seesaw Library based on curricula and educational standards.

Search by Standard

Click the “Standards” tab and select Texas. Then, choose a subject and grade level.
To view more than one grade level at a time, choose an option below!
Click Search.
Click the blue “Correlations” button to see which Seesaw lessons align to the standard. Click on a title to access the lesson!

Search by Curriculum

Click the “Curriculum” tab and select your curriculum of choice, such as Frog Street, Amplify, or Eureka. Then, choose Texas.
Next, select the grade level(s) alignments you want to explore.
To view more than one grade level at a time, choose an option below!
Click Search.
Find the unit or module you are teaching and explore corresponding Seesaw lessons by clicking the blue “Correlations” button. Click on a title to access the lesson!

Disclaimer:The curriculum alignments provided by Seesaw detail the correlation between the standards addressed in the above-mentioned curricula and the lessons in the Seesaw Library. Seesaw’s curriculum alignments are provided by Seesaw directly and are not affiliated with, sponsored by, reviewed, approved, or endorsed by any of the above-mentioned curriculum publishers or any other third party. All other intellectual property rights (e.g., unregistered and registered trademarks and copyrights) are the property of their respective owners.

Student Groups

Student groups support teachers to differentiate instruction for students with similar characteristics, ensuring every student receives the right level of support and challenge.

Creating Student Groups

Open Class Settings by selecting the wrench in the upper left hand corner.
Select Manage Student Groups.
Type the name of your new student group in the box, and select the Add Student Group button.
Customize your group.
1. Select Edit Icon to add your preferred icon.
2. Keep your group name as is, or edit it.
3. Tap the blue checkbox to add students (uncheck the box to remove).
4. Tap the green checkmark in the upper right hand corner to save your changes. Your group is now created!

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