Seesaw is a digital portfolio that shows you real-time glimpses into your kid’s school day, which can be easily shared with parents to help them stay in the loop and support their kid’s learning at home. Thus, this app helps clarify parent-educator communication and give learners more control of their education. It is a tool for drawing and recording, which makes it authentic and fun.

Website: https://web.seesaw.me/

What Users Love About the App

“We use Seesaw in elementary (K-4) as our main learning platform. We started using it during the pandemic for remote learning, but we continue to use it now that students are back on site because it provides easy communication with students and families, create assignments, and curate student work.”

“It is easy to use and the company offers great training, resources and support. They are also very responsive to user suggestions and requests.”

“Seesaw is an intuitive, kid-friendly platform that can be easily utilized in remote instruction. Teachers can post videos, activities, and other lessons, and students can respond in a variety of ways: typing, writing, voice record, video, photos, etc.”

“My child’s preschool uses this program to communicate to parents both as a class setting and also individual communications between myself and the teachers. I appreciate that I can directly communicate to my child’s teachers.”

“I am able to follow up on what the assignments are and whether or not my child had submitted the homework. I can see the teacher’s comments about this too.”

What Users Dislike About the App

“There is no file structure for shared lessons in the shared libraries. It is strictly a subject and/or grade level search. The frequent negative feedback I get from teachers is that they wish they could see folders by subject and grade level.”

“The app itself is somewhat “clunky.” The organization of the program is poor and you can see that you have notifications, but you have to click around to find out where the new items are.”

“At times, I cannot get the push notifications to clear from my phone, and most recently, I stopped getting any notifications at all even though my settings are set to allow them!”

“It is strangely set out. Sometimes you find information in the “home” section, sometimes in the “journal” section and sometimes in the inbox section, and sometimes not at all! Teachers will say they have posted something, some of the kids will receive it and some not.”

“Something I dislike about Seesaw is that it is not very user-friendly. Many of my students are a hard time navigating the platform, and some have not posted at all because they have not figured out how to do so.”