What is seesaw used for?

What is Seesaw? Seesaw is a digital platform where teachers of all grade levels and content areas can create learning tasks and assignments for students. The assignments can incorporate videos, photos, text, images, files, or drawings. 

How do students use Seesaw?


Quote from video: And if your teacher gave you a code to enter you can enter it in the text code box or you can scan a qr code to get yourself into seesaw.

What is the difference between Google classroom and Seesaw?

Seesaw and Google Classroom are both sleek platforms for organizing student work. While Google Classroom is great for streamlining the management of classes, assignments, grades, and parent communication, Seesaw shines as a digital portfolio tool that incorporates teacher, parent, and student feedback.

What devices use Seesaw?

The Seesaw app is available on iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire devices. You can also use Seesaw on the web using a computer or Chromebook on Chrome, Firefox or Edge browser. What platforms and operating systems does Seesaw support? iOS Devices: iOS 13 and newer.

Why would a teacher use Seesaw?

Seesaw is a digital platform where teachers of all grade levels and content areas can create learning tasks and assignments for students. The assignments can incorporate videos, photos, text, images, files, or drawings.

What are the pros and cons of Seesaw?

Pros: Intuitive for students and teachers. Tons of ideas up for grabs in the Activity Library. Cons: In the paid skills feature, skills and standards must be manually entered. Bottom Line: A powerful multimedia learning and communication tool that demonstrates student progress over time.

Why is Seesaw so popular?

Seesaw is a valuable digital tool to add to your tool belt! It encourages creativity for students. It allows students voices to be heard by more than one person (the teacher) and creates authentic communication experiences.

What grades is Seesaw good for?

Seesaw is a wonderful platform for all subject areas and promotes student engagement with curriculum while integrating technology. Although Seesaw can be used across all grade levels, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students are at the perfect age to utilize this platform and all of it has to offer!

What can parents see on Seesaw?



Seesaw tutorial for teachers

Can I view seesaw as a student?

A button to be able to toggle the view from teacher to a selected student (or sample student). Since there is no way to log-on as the sample student, it will make it easier to fully see what the kids are seeing as they complete activities or add posts.

How does a seesaw work for kids?

Seesaw is a platform for student engagement that inspires students of all ages to do their best, and saves teachers time! Students use creative tools to take pictures, draw, record videos and more to capture learning in a portfolio. Teachers find or create activities to share with students.

How does a student message a teacher on seesaw?

Open Seesaw and sign in. Tap the Messages icon. Tap Create New Conversation to start a message with your teacher OR type your reply to an existing message. Tap Send to send your message.