Seesaw Reviews

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.

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.

Also, the drawing and other creation tools are very basic and could use some updating.

I loved how easy it was for students to access Seesaw on their own, especially during remote learning. It’s also a great way to keep families in the loop because of the messaging system. Having the activity library is another great feature. We could easily find activities to use as is or change to fit our needs. Being able to save them and organize them within our personal library is very helpful too.

It’s clunky to add links and pictures/video lessons within a lesson/activity, but once you get the hang of it, it is definitely worth it.

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.

I don't think there are many drawbacks. Students can navigate this easily enough that a 6 or 7 year old can largely handle their work without too much parent involvement.

I receive updates all day long in real-time regarding my son's progress and classroom activity
Together my son and I can access his assignments anytime to correct and resubmit

It's sometimes difficult to navigate. We were not given training on the software, so occasionally I have to fumble around to find the options I need to use

Being able to see what kids are doing in their classroom is very important

I cannot download any of the pictures posted.

We can view pictures of our kids and communicate daily with the teacher.

Some links sometimes seem to not work properly through seesaw. Not sure if that is the fault of the app

I love the staff can share photos, messages and timely communication on this platform and receive timely notifications and app alerts. Helps with conversations with my children about their day to know what they ate, what projects they are working on etc.

Nothing really - overall great platform to get a snapshot inside the classroom.

I love the ability to communicate with families in real time and share all the wonderful things happening in my classroom. I also love that even my youngest students can create short videos and add their voice to drawing in order to explain their learning.

This company really listens to its users! The only suggestion I had would be to add more pages to each activity, and they already added that as soon as customers requested it.

It’s easy to use, has an iPhone app that is easy and intuitive to navigate. Great for seeing the progress by my child in school - I can see photos, sometimes photo collages, and also videos of my child uploaded by the teachers. The teachers also upload their weekly curriculum so I know what they’ve been learning.

It’s not as feature rich and when I used this during lockdown to respond to home based learning assignments and tasks assigned to my child, there’s no function to sort and filter through the many tasks . There’s no search option either. The only option is to scroll and look for the tasks and rely on memory on what the teacher uploaded. If a task had several subtasks, it was not always easy or possible to edit the previously submitted task so I end up creating a new task and the teacher has to figure out that it’s part 2 or part 3 of one assignment. There’s also no schedule functionality so that we can see the class timetable easily.

This product is easy to use, free and helps me keep track of my childs progress at school.

I have had seesaw over five years a d so far I haven't found any cons to Seesaw!

Seesaw is very intuitive and easy to use for teachers as well as students. Our students use it weekly, and have become experts on this, showing the adults how to use it. In a year like we just had, transitioning from remote to hybrid and back to in person multiple times, Seesaw was a constant and became an anchor for our district.

Nothing here to complain about! Seesaw works as it’s intended to work. We have not had any failures with the product in the three years we have used it.

Not only is it a great way to virtually post and submit school work, it's a great way to send messages to parents

If your child has more than 1 seesaw teacher, you have to log out and log in to each individual teacher

There is little guess work with the app- you know exactly how it works.

I do not have any cons for the Seesaw app

I use this app to share pictures and track progress of my students with their parents. They can comment on their child's work or pictures. They can also send private messages to me.

I use this app for certain features, but a different app to send out reminders to all parents at once. It would be nice to only use one app.

Seesaw was so fun and easy to use. I loved getting daily reports from my child and getting to see her work. I loved that I could leave an encouraging note back and also communicate with the teacher.

Nothing - overall a really positive experience. As long as the teacher provides balance and moderation (which is on the teacher not the software) I think it is a very positive tool for classrooms.

I loved how organized and user friendly it is. Having multiple kids it allowed me to keep track of each one.

The notifications didn’t always come through as priority