Covers the following topics: What makes Seesaw great, making the most of Seesaw's workflow, and how to app smash

1. The Ultimate Guide to Documenting Learning
in the k-5 Classroom

2. • What is Seesaw?
• Idea Poster
• Why use Seesaw?
• Everyone Feature
• Copy and Edit
• Links and Google Forms
• Doodle Buddy
• Adobe Voice
• Chatterbox
• Book Creator
• Felt board

4. Seesaw is a student-driven digital
portfolio that empowers students to
create, capture and share what they’re
learning at school.
Seesaw simplifies classroom
workflow by collecting and organizing
all students’ digital and physical work in
one place.
Seesaw engages parents by giving them
a real-time, personalized glimpse into
their child’s school day, via automatic iOS
or Android app notifications, text
messages or emails.
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5. Students can “show
what they know”
using photos, videos,
drawings, text, PDFs,
and links.
You can also import
directly from many
popular apps. (App-
smash)
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8. Can sign in to class
using a QR code -
perfect for shared
devices or primary.
Students can use
their school email
address to login.
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9. When students add to
their Seesaw journal,
content is uploaded,
organized by student,
and immediately
accessible to teachers
from any device and on
the web.
Seesaw makes it easy for
students and teachers to
review progress over time
and demonstrate.
Collect and Organize Student
Work from Any Device
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10. Browse work from the
entire class, or for a single
student.
Optionally, use folders to
organize work by subject
area or project.
Teachers can flag items for
follow up or to review at
parent-teacher conferences.
Journals are Organized,
Sortable and Accessible
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11. Seesaw gives students
an authentic audience
of their peers and
parents, encouraging
better work and real
feedback.
Teachers can control
who can see what,
and what feedback
options are available.
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12. Teachers approve all
student journal entries and
comments before anything
is shared with parents.
Teachers can customize all
of the settings for their
class, like:
● Student sign in mode
● Can students like or
comment?
● Can students edit?
● Can students see each
other's work?
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13. Seesaw helps capture
the learning process,
not just the end result.
Students can use
Seesaw's built-in audio
recording and drawing
tools to reflect on what
they've learned or
explain how they got
an answer.
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14. Include families in the
learning process by inviting
them to view updates to
their child’s Seesaw journal.
Seesaw’s immediate, visual
updates actually get seen by
parents, provide
encouragement for students,
and cross language barriers.
Parents can access Seesaw
via iOS app, Android app or
on the web.
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16. The "Everyone" feature can be
used to send out pictures,
announcements, or newsletters.
This works best when
most parents have
signed up with the
parent app. Teachers can
also control whether
parents can like or
comment on posts and
their student's work.
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17. Teachers can send out
assignments to everyone
or select students.
Students can "Copy and
Edit" to finish and turn it
in to their own journal.
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18. Add a link and send it
out to the whole class, a
group, or a student.
Link to a google form for
quick and easy assessment.
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20. Great tool for math.
Students can write out
math problems and
demonstrate by using
the apps stamps.
Just have students save
picture to the camera
roll and then upload in
Seesaw
This app is free, but has
adds. For $.99 you can
have the adds removed
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21. This is one of my favorite
tools for video creation. It is
very easy to use, and makes it
simple for kids to create high
quality videos.
Have students save video to
camera roll and then upload
to Seesaw.
This app is free! Just need to
create a generic account
Adobe account for the class
and share sign in information
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22. Allows
students to
take pictures
of anything
and make it
talk.
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23. Student or teacher
can create e-Books
that can easily be
shared in Seesaw.
Free version allows
for one book. Full
version is $4.99
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Link to video

24. Very versatile. Used
for math problems,
venn diagrams, T-
charts, word
building, and more..
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26. Teacher Resource Center
Seesaw has tons of resources available at help.seesaw.me, like
getting started guides, intro presentations for your students and
parents, tutorial videos, and activity ideas.
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27. Send an email:
help@seesaw.me
Reach out on Twitter:
@Seesaw
Join #SeesawChat on Twitter. 2nd and 4th Thursdays at 4 pm PST.
Shelley Frey
sjfrey@rsd7.net
Follow me on Twitter @shelleyfrey
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