Seesaw Plus premium features are open for all pre-k and kindergarten teachers in Fort Worth ISD. These features help teachers record assessments on student work and understand student progress, which helps inform instruction.

Seesaw Plus premium features include:

• View Student Progress Towards Key Skills: Teachers using Seesaw for formative assessments can tag student posts with their own set of skills or standards. Optionally, assign a simple 1-6 rating to student work and get a real-time understanding of how students are progressing towards key curriculum objectives.

• Multipage: Students can create posts of up to 20 pages and use powerful creative tools (drawing, voice, labels, photos, shapes, etc.) on every page. Teachers can assign Multipage activities, create Multipage activity templates, and create announcements for students and families that include Multipage posts.

• Drafts: With Drafts, students can save work in progress and finish it later. Drafts give students the flexibility to create and reflect on work at their own pace! With Send Back Drafts, teachers can leave comments and send back work to students for revision.

• Private Folder: Teachers can add student work to a private folder to keep assessments in one spot without sharing everything with families.

• Private Notes: Teachers can take private notes (and even collaborate with other teachers and administrators) on student work. Private notes are only visible to other teachers, not students or families.

• Scheduled Activities: With Seesaw Plus, you can now schedule activities for dates and times in the future!

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If you want to organize student work by subject area or learning objectives, you can create folders in your class. Using folders to organizing student work by subject matter or learning objective can make it much easier to find the posts later on. Folders are visible to teachers and students, as well as family members if you have invited them to your class.

Watch the video below to learn how to:

• Create folders

• Tag posts and activities to folders

• View and approve work by folder

• Keep folders organized

Folders Mini-Training

Folders Cheat Sheet

Enable Students to Tag Folders when they Post

If you want your students to be prompted to add work to folders, you need to turn folders ON for your students.

How to turn folders ON for students:

1. Tap wrench icon.

2. Scroll down to "Show add to folder step".

3. Turn this to "Students and teachers".

4. Press the back arrow to save.

Seesaw Plus premium features include access to private folders and notes. You can add student work to a private folder to keep assessments in one spot without sharing everything with families.

Creating a private, teacher-only folder is quick and easy!

During add post:

First, make sure you have folders ON for your class. Tap on Your Profile > Manage Class > Show Add to Folder Step and make sure it says either 'Teachers' or 'Teachers and Students'.

When creating a new post, you can add a post to your Private (Teacher Only) Folder from the Folders selection screen. Tap on the small blue lock icon on the bottom right corner of the folders selection screen, then make sure the 'Teacher Private' switch is green. Then hit the green check to finish uploading the post. The post will not be visible, and no notifications will be sent to students or connected families.

From the approval queue:

You can also add student work into your Private (Teacher Only) Folder from the Approval Queue. This might be useful for student assessments that you don’t want shared with students or families just yet. Tap on the folder icon below the post, then tap on the Private (Teacher Only) folder to add it to the folder. When you approve the post, it will not be visible to students or families.

To remove a post from the private teacher folder:

Tap on the folder icon or the Edit Folder option in the [...] menu and remove the checkmark next to the Private (Teacher Only) Folder. The post will now be visible to students and connected families.

Teachers can take private notes (and even collaborate with other teachers and administrators) on student work. Private notes are only visible to other teachers, not students or families.

With Drafts, students can save work in progress and finish it later. Drafts give students the flexibility to create and reflect on work at their own pace! With Send Back Drafts, teachers can leave comments and send back work to students for revision.

Note: The Drafts and Send Back features are only available if the class login method is 1:1 or Email/Google sign-on.

How Students Use Drafts

To save work as a Draft, have students choose the Draft option instead of choosing the green check:

Drafts appear in the student’s journal feed with a yellow banner, indicating that the post is a Draft.

Only the student who created the Draft and their teacher are able to view the Draft. If you want to edit the item tap Show Draft > [...] > Edit Item.

Note: If a student accidentally closes their Seesaw app or browser window, Seesaw will save a copy of their work on their device or computer. When they open Seesaw again on the same device or computer, Seesaw will recover the work, and the student can continue working where they left off. For their work to be uploaded to their portfolio and visible to teachers and family members, students should still tap "Draft" or the green check.

Use the Send Back Feature with Drafts

Create powerful feedback loops with your students using the Send Back feature. Turn any piece of student work into a draft, so students can review and improve their work prior to posting to their journal. In the approval queue, tap 'Send Back' to send student work back to the student.

Teachers can also use the comment tool to leave feedback on work in progress. With a comment, students can review specific feedback from their teacher. If you do not want the comment on the final post, you will need to delete the comment.

Teachers using Seesaw for formative assessments can tag student posts with their own set of skills or standards. In addition, teachers can assign a simple 1-6 rating to student work and get a real-time understanding of how students are progressing towards key curriculum objectives.

Watch the video below to learn how to:

• Create skills

• Tags posts and activities to skills

• Give ratings

• Track student progress with skills view

Skills Mini-Training

Skills Cheat Sheet

To learn more about using skills, click the button below.

Customize your Skills Rating Scale

Teachers can create and tag skills that align with a 3-6 star scale.

To change your Skills rating scale:

1. Log in to your teacher account on the web app at app.seesaw.me.

2. Tap the wrench icon in the upper right corner.

3. Scroll down and tap 'Skills Rating Scale'.

4. Select the rating scale that works best for your class!

With Seesaw Plus premium features, you can now schedule activities for dates and times in the future! To schedule an activity, follow the steps below.

1. Tap on an activity in the My Library section of the Activities library.

2. Tap Assign.

3. Tap Schedule.

4. Select the date and time you would like to share the activity with your students, and then tap the green check.

5. Tap the green check to confirm the date and time.

6. Tap Assign On to schedule your activity for the selected date and time.

Using Multipage, students create posts of up to 10 pages, and can use powerful creative tools (drawing, voice, labels, photos, shapes, etc.) on every page. Teachers can assign Multipage activities, create Multipage activity templates, and create announcements for students and families that include Multipage posts. Now, with Annotate docs, students can add 1-20 pages directly from their computer or Google drive and annotate up to 20 pages!

Albums you’ve previously created are now Multipage posts. This gives you and your students options to take the learning further and add Seesaw’s creative tools on every page.

To create a multipage post, students need to choose either drawing, photo, or upload when posting to their student journal. In the lower right corner of the page, click the Add Page icon to add another page.

With Multipage and Annotate docs, students can use the creative tools to enhance 1-20 pages of a Google Doc, Slide, Sheet or PDF:

Take some time to explore the multipage activities. Try to find at least two assignments that you would like to use with your class and save them to your library to assign at a later date. To access the examples, use the button below.