SeeSaw Parents

Engage families in conversations centered on student learning. Families connect to their child’s Seesaw journal to participate in their student’s learning, see student work, and celebrate progress.

Families can connect to their child’s journal on the web (app.seesaw.me) or by downloading the Seesaw Family App, available on iOS and Android. Connecting families to their child’s journal helps you keep families in the loop and engaged in their child’s learning through personalized, easy to use, safe, and visual updates.

Note: Parent / family accounts are different than students logging into SeeSaw. Parent / family accounts using the SeeSaw Parent & Family App cannot submit items in SeeSaw - they must be logged in with the student account in the SeeSaw Class App to submit items.

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When families connect to their child’s journal, they can only see their individual child’s work, or group projects that their child is tagged in.

1. Log in to your teacher account from the web (at app.seesaw.me).

2. Go into the class you'd like to connect families to and tap the + Families button located under your class list.

3. Family Access has been turned on as a default setting on all classes. Remember, family members only see posts that their child is tagged in or posts that the teacher adds to “Everyone”.

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How do I invite parents and families by email?

Every BK-2 teacher has been shared a Google spreadsheet from instructionalservices@howellschools.com with a snapshot of their SeeSaw roster (as of 8/17). The spreadsheet includes the email addresses of the first and second parent / family contacts for the student from PowerSchool.

In SeeSaw, to invite family members by email, add family member email address next to each student’s name. You can invite up to 10 family members to connect to each student’s journal. Once you’ve added their email address, they will receive an email invite (in English) to connect to their child’s journal.

4. After clicking the + Families button, a pop up will appear listing each of your students with a space for the parent / family email address

5. Click the + Add Another Family Member link to invite more than one parent for a student

6. Click the Invite Families button at the bottom

Once you’ve added email addresses, you can look back at any time to see the family members who have connected to each student journal. You can always remove connected family members through your Class Settings menu.

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Right now you can use Seesaw to send individual messages to parents / family members, but not individual students.

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To send a private message to an individual family members:

1. Tap ‘Inbox’.

2. Tap the name of the family member you want to message.

3. Type your message in the box at the bottom. To add an attachment, tap the blue Add button. You can select from any of Seesaw’s Creative Tools to add in your message.

4. Tap the green check to add the attachment. Attachments will appear below your text message.

5. To send the message, tap ‘Send’.

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1. To send an announcement, tap the Green Plus+ and select Send Announcement.

2. Under the Send to… drop down menu, select All Students, All Families, or All Students and Families.

3. Type your announcement. To add an attachment, tap Add attachment’ You can select from any of Seesaw’s Creative Tools to add to an announcement.

4. Tap the green check to add the attachment. Attachments will appear below your text message.

5. To send the announcement, tap Send Now on the web, or the green check on the app.

6. Tap Inbox’to see all of your messages and replies. This is also where you can privately message individual family members.

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