Seesaw Critical Information

The settings wrench in the upper right corner allows you to control important aspects of your classes.

• Rename the class (please include the grade level, teacher name, and year)
• Manage Coteachers
• Manage Students (if necessary)
• Change colors
• Manage and Invite Families
• Enable Blog
• Manage Folders and Skills

In each of your classes, click settings and 'Enable Family Access.' This allows families to see the class in their Family Account.

• 'Manage Families' to see what students have connected family members
• 'Invite Families' offers several ways to connect (via email or text)
• Control the 'likes, comments, and sharing' for families

Drawing has been significantly updated:

• External links (websites, youtube, etc.) create image thumbnails
• Up to 20 slides per drawing
• Record up to 5 minutes of embedded video on each slide
• Voice recording now can cover multiple pages and creates a cover video on slide 1
• Students and Teachers can save a 'draft'
• "Undo' and 'Redo' buttons

Google Slides added from Drive open in Drawing and the above tools can apply to the slides.

Students now have a "To Do," "In Progress," "Done," and "Calendar" view of their activities in each class. This will help students with assignment organization.

Teachers also now have a Calendar view for activities. This allows teachers to click on a day to see what activities were assigned and see student submissions.

*If not yet visible in your account, updates are live for all on the 15th. Make sure your iPad/iPhone apps are updated then as well--district devices should update automatically.

In addition to the Activity Calendar, the Journal feed also has a calendar view. Click on a date to see a thumbnail of each student submission for that day. This is one way to track assignment completion.

Seesaw and other applications typically sync with Clever each evening/morning. These 'Soft Syncs' add new students and transfer students from one school to another. A Soft Sync does not affect custom work to your classes such as co-teachers and students you have manually added from other classes.

From time to time, a 'Hard Sync' happens. This is more likely at the beginning of the year as new sections and staff are added to Synergy, but this can also be prompted by data errors. A Hard Sync can (but not always) overwrite custom work in your Seesaw class.

If you see you are missing coteachers in your class or you have been removed as a coteacher in another class, use 'manage teachers' in settings to reconnect.

If other issues happen that appear difficult to fix, contact Steve Simpson

Teachers can access Clever badges in their Clever portal. Click 'classes' and select your class. You can download an individual badge, a class set, and void badges, if necessary.

Families can access student passwords in ParentVue under student information. 'StudentVUE Original' Passwords are at the bottom of the information page (click 'additional information) if using the app.

This document is for elementary principals and all elementary certified staff. New updates will be added as new guidance and guidelines become available. New revisions will be dated.