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Below, and accessible from the drop down menu above, is a list of tutorials of "Need-to-Know" information for using Seesaw. While they are intended to be read in order, feel free to reference individual tutorials at your leisure.
These guiding questions and resources can help this feel like a manageable and enjoyable alternative to learning in a physical school classroom.
How to get into Seesaw as a teacher, student, or parent, and an explanation of how Seesaw is arranged. Also, learn how to connect students to their Seesaw account from home so that they can complete assignments.
SeeSaw allows you to connect with families and engage 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 and growth.
Among Seesaw's most powerful features is its ability to establish clear, safe, and private communication with the families of your students. Use this to learn more about Seesaw's amazing communication features.
5 - Class Settings
5 - Class Settings
Seesaw allows you to vary certain settings for students, such as whether students can see each others’ posts, and whether or not you as a teacher must approve their posts. Learn more about these settings and how to access them here.
Students can share their learning using a variety of tools. This is an overview of the ones that are most commonly used to respond to an activity or post in the journal.
7 - The Drawing Tool
7 - The Drawing Tool
The drawing tool is one of the most powerful tools used on Seesaw for students to show their work. Many options make this tool a favorite for all activities.
Learn about the difference between a student's journal and activities that you create, a crucial component of understanding how student's submit work.
Browse through a large collection of resources created by teachers around the world. You can search by grade level, subject area, and easily assign the activity to your students.
10 - Creating Activities
10 - Creating Activities
Seesaw allows you to use a variety of tools to create your own learning activities. You can incorporate templates, include audio directions and multimedia files, and include visuals to enhance student understanding of activity directions.
Learn how to provide feedback to student work submitted through Seesaw.
12 - Adding Co-Teachers
12 - Adding Co-Teachers
Learn how to add Co-Teachers, like interventionists and specialists, to your class.
As students submit assignments for your class, as well as specialists connected to your class, organization can become a challenge. Learn how you you can use the Folders feature of Seesaw to help get organized.
As you continue to add new activities to Seesaw, you may find that your list of activities becomes cluttered. Learn how to archive old activities to clean things up.
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