- Minor updates to the creative canvas
- Minor bug fixes
- Minor updates to the creative canvas and saving work.
- Minor bug fixes
- Resolved bug when editing assigned activities
- Creative Tools: Fix flashing of some backgrounds
- Creative Tools: Improvements to autosave post recovery
- Family Invites: Allow inviting up to 10 family members to connect to a student
- Creative Tools: New colors and gradients in the Backgrounds tool!
- Improve Preview as a Student for teachers when previewing activities from the Resource Library
- Creative Tools: Improvements to text selection and moving the cursor in text labels tool, plus new support for bold, italics and underline styling in labels!
- Creative Tools: Fix bug where you could not delete an audio recording from a label, shape or image
- Updates to showcase our new app icon and logo that integrate the learning loop imagery. Refreshed fonts and colors.
Bug fixes to flow for teachers to assign assignments to students
Messages Reactions: Quickly react with an emoji ??❤️ ?? to messages.
Messages Reactions: Quickly react with an emoji to messages.
Messages Reactions: Quickly react with an emoji ??❤️ ?? to messages.
Show formative assessment reporting alongside the student post, if an assignment contains assessment questions
Check out the Seesaw Library for hundreds of new lessons designed to save you time and get your students rocking and rolling with Seesaw.
- Getting Started With Seesaw (PK-5)
- First Days of School (PK-5)
- Formative Assessment Inspirations (PK-5)
Fix issues with scroll in Messages
Formative Assessment in Seesaw!
- Add auto-graded questions, like multiple choice, true/false or drag and drop questions into your Seesaw activities
- Add polls into your Seesaw activities
- Use Find Questions Question Assistant to search for questions. Now find True/False questions as well!
- Improvements to editing and assigning activities
New: Formative Assessment in Seesaw!
- Combine the time savings of auto-grading with the power of multimodal tools to get deep insights into learning.
- Use Find Questions to select from pre-made multiple choice or true/false questions – or write your own questions or polls.
- Automatic class-level reporting allows you to quickly see who needs more support, enabling responsive instruction.
Allow teachers to share their activities with other teachers in their school via Messages
Fix a bug saving posts to the camera roll on some devices
Fix a bug where dates and times were displayed incorrectly for the selected language and region
Small font and styling fixes in Messages
Improvements to uploading multimedia
Improvements to Student Groups to support filtering by Student Group in the Journal view.
- Improvements to Frames in creative tools
- Improvements to upload reliability
- Additional improvements for uploading videos
- Fix issue where creating Android audio labels shows an incorrect error message on playback
- Updated error handling and “retry” improvements to improve the robustness of “real-time” message receipt.
- Fix for viewing PDFs
- Fixes for Messaging attachments, drafted conversation, and font size issues
- Additional improvements for getting stuck uploading multimedia
- Additional improvements to how the app handles losing internet connection and reconnecting when you’re back online
- Fix for some cases where autosave to recover student work after an app crash or the app is background was not working
- Fix for Draw+Record videos where audio was not recorded if you pause while recording but did not add additional drawing.
- Fix for app crash when scanning QR code on some devices
- Additional fixes for slowness or getting stuck uploading multimedia
- Additional fix for getting stuck on a white screen or error screen when coming back into the app
- Improvements to how the app handles losing internet connection and reconnecting when you’re back online
- Improvements to app loading speed
- Bug fixes
- Teachers, students and families now use the same app!
- Keep users signed in when upgrading to the new app version
- Bug fixes for top crashes
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Fix bug where Draw+Record videos would not properly save after recording
Bug fixes
Fix issue on Android 11 opening links to other apps, like YouTube and Google Meet
Bug fixes
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Fixed bug that prevented adding text labels in the creative tools on certain devices
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Fixed issue that prevented you from editing posts or responding to activities containing videos
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- Fix issue accessing the photo camera on Android 11
- Fix issue getting notifications after upgrading to Android 11
- Fix crash when navigating between the feed and expanded view for a post
Fix app crash when receiving a notification to update app with new data, like a new student post in the feed
Creative tools improvements
Fix bug selecting videos from the Gallery on certain devices
Show all activities in the Calendar Day view (not just the first 8)
∙ Bug fixes for post recovery and creative tools
New in 7.5:
∙ View activities on a calendar on the day the activity was assigned.
∙ Teachers can pin one activity to the top of the Activities feed. Students see it at the top.
∙ Teachers can pin one post to the top of the Journal feed. Students see it at the top.
∙ Improvements to recovering work in progress if the app crashes or you quit the app.
∙ Bug fixes for post recovery and creative tools
New in 7.5:
∙ View activities on a calendar on the day the activity was assigned.
∙ Teachers can pin one activity to the top of the Activities feed. Students see it at the top.
∙ Teachers can pin one post to the top of the Journal feed. Students see it at the top.
∙ Improvements to recovering work in progress if the app crashes or you quit the app.
∙ View activities on a calendar on the day the activity was assigned.
∙ Teachers can pin one activity to the top of the Activities feed. Students see it at the top.
∙ Teachers can pin one post to the top of the Journal feed. Students see it at the top.
∙ Improvements to recovering work in progress if the app crashes or you quit the app.
∙ View activities on a calendar on the day the activity was assigned.
∙ Teachers can pin one activity to the top of the Activities feed. Students see it at the top.
∙ Teachers can pin one post to the top of the Journal feed. Students see it at the top.
∙ Improvements to recovering work in progress if the app crashes or you quit the app.
∙ Improvements to activities for teachers and students including: link to a specific activity, filter activity by folder to see just activities for a specific subject area and printing activities.
∙ Bug fixes in the creative tools.
∙ Improvements to activities for teachers and students including: link to a specific activity, filter activity by folder to see just activities for a specific subject area and printing activities.
∙ Bug fixes in the creative tools.
Add Google Docs, Slides and Sheets into Seesaw! We’ll convert those files into a multipage post so you can annotate on top.
Faster and more reliable uploads for videos
Feature parity with iOS and web, including: Drafts, Send Back, convert PDFs to annotatable pages and linkify all of the things (captions, comments, Notes, etc)
Faster and more reliable uploads for photos
Improvements to Seesaw’s creation tools for creating and responding to activities.
Bug fixes
More background colors in the creation tools!
Fix for tiny images when adding photos on to your 2nd-20th page
Fix bug viewing posts created by other students on the blog
Fixes for top crashes
Fix bug purchasing Seesaw Plus subscription
Fix crash when uploading some Draw+Record videos
Fix crash when selecting an image from the Camera Roll
Add “View Original” and “View in Google” buttons for PDF files.
Open links in Chrome or the device’s default browser.
Make it easier to sign out of your account when signed in with a home learning code.
Fix error viewing another student’s multipage post in the blog.
Fix error uploading posts if you hit the back arrow from the select students screen when adding an activity response as a teacher or copy & editing as a student.
- Fix bug joining a new class when already signed in to a student account (for email and Google sign in students)
- Fix bug when switching between Journal, Activities and Inbox when "Students can see each other's work" setting is OFF for the class.
This update makes it easier for students to sign in from home using a Home Learning sign in code when emergencies prevent them from coming to school. Please visit https://web.seesaw.me/home-learning to learn how to set up Seesaw for home learning.
Also includes a fix for Draw+Record videos not saving properly.
Improvements and bug fixes for the creation tools in Seesaw:
- Simplified more options menu for photos, shapes and labels
- Fix “Camera in use by another website” error for some devices
Bug fixes and improvements to the creation tools in Seesaw, including fixes to the file picker for choosing photos and videos and fixes for top crashes.
Bug fixes and improvements to the creation tools in Seesaw. Please keep the feedback coming!
Seesaw’s new creative tools are now available on Android!
- New tools such as pens, shapes, and backgrounds unlock creative thinking.
- Add multiple photos to any piece of work to create a collage.
- Draw + Record lets students explain their thinking in real time.
- Multipage, a premium feature, allows capturing more robust learning. Try premium features free for 60 days!
Bug fixes.
We’ve updated Seesaw’s creative tools that students use to demonstrate their learning on iOS and the web. This update makes it possible to view those new posts on Android. New creative tools are coming to Android later this summer.
Bug fixes
We’ve made a couple of additional improvements to Skills:
- It’s now easier to get started using Skills for the first time
- Assign star ratings right as you approve student posts and activities
Check out improvements to Skills! It's now more flexible, customizable, and easier to apply in your classroom.
Look for:
- More star rating options for a wider range of scales and assessment styles
- Smoother flow!
- Tag skills on both student posts and activities
- Assign star ratings right as you approve student posts
- Celebrate the end of the year with Seesaw. Browse hundreds of new activities that encourage students to reflect on the season, traditions, celebrations, and their goals!
- We updated how and when Seesaw asks for permission to access specific tools, like your device’s camera or microphone
- Improved Google sign on
- Explore Seesaw’s tools before there are students your class using Sample Student! Want to add Sample Student to an existing class? Tap the wrench icon to turn Enable Sample Student ON.
- Simplified sign in for email and Google sign in students
- It’s easier to add students to your class. Tap +Students for instructions.
- Choose a fun class icon for class. Tap on the wrench icon to pick a cute icon. Whenever you tag all students in your class, your class icon will show.
- Browse new activities added for Fall! Check out trending searches or browse the profiles of inspiring teachers.
- Improve Google Drive integration. Add docs, slides, photos from Drive into Seesaw by tapping “Add File”.
- Activities improvements: Make links tappable, share activities more easily, new student instructions banner
- Fix bug switching classes when adding to Seesaw from another app.
- Fix bug with push notifications when signed out.
∙ Looking for a lesson idea for tomorrow? Browse the Seesaw Activity Library. Hundreds of new activity ideas are added each week, ready for you to use with students or customize.
∙ Easily save activities you find on social media or shared by a colleague via email. Tap the Save Activity button and the activity will be saved to My Library.
∙ Improvements to sharing activities to your class, tagging folders on activities and browsing the Library.
∙ Browse over 3,000 new ideas for how to use Seesaw with your students in the Activity Library! Check out the Getting Started Collection if you’re brand new to Seesaw, or explore our community’s favorite ‘Get to Know Me’ activities for Back to School.
∙ Tag a folder when sharing an activity and all student responses are organized into that folder.
∙ See all of the archived activities for your class in the Archived section of the Activities tab.
∙ Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Support for drawing + voice + labels videos! Teachers and students can record 10 minutes of drawing, voice and moving labels around.
Activities now even better with 100s of new activities added each week!
Differentiate your instruction by selecting which students to receive an activity. Works best in Email and Class Code-1:1 Devices sign in modes. Change sign in mode in Class Settings.
Filters to see the active + scheduled activities for your class
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Activities, the newly expanded Activity Library and Labels are now available!
Students respond to activities you share and add text labels to pictures or drawings.
Get ideas and save prep time with the new Activity Library. Discover tons of activities that are ready to use with your students.
Share activities with multiple classes at once.
If you’re using Seesaw Plus or Seesaw for Schools, organize activities into collections and schedule activities.
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What's New:
- Fixes issue adding photos and videos from the Gallery app via the Share menu.
- Fixes crash for some users when importing videos.
Seesaw messaging is now better than ever!- Add photos, videos, PDFs, links and more to the announcements and private messages you send in Seesaw.- Families can also message you back with Seesaw’s built-in creative tools, keeping your parent communication in one place.- We hope this new feature makes teacher-family communication in Seesaw more useful, expressive and fun!- Multimedia messaging was one of our top feature requests. Thank you for helping us make Seesaw better every month.
∙ Added a “New” banner to indicate which messages in a conversation you haven’t read yet.∙ For links sent via message, it is now possible to open them up in a web browser inside the app.∙ Fixes issue where some photos/videos recorded with the front-facing camera were upside down.∙ Fixes issue where changes to class name, display name or profile photo wouldn’t take immediate effect.∙ Fixes many other top bugs and crashes!
∙ Teacher Announcements: Send to all families or all students.∙ Direct Messaging with Families∙ Simplified App Design: Journal, Inbox, Skills and Blog views all on one screen.∙ Customizable Class Theme and Icon to personalize your class!∙ Bug fixes: improvements to video recording quality, message translations, linkifying links in messages.5.0.1∙ Display 'Seen by' for messages∙ Bug fixes and improvementsActivities and labels will be available in 2018. Thanks for your patience!
∙ Teacher Announcements: Send to all families or all students.∙ Direct Messaging with Families∙ Simplified App Design: Journal, Inbox, Skills and Blog views all on one screen.∙ Customizable Class Theme and Icon to personalize your class!∙ Bug fixes: improvements to video recording quality, message translations, linkifying links in messages.This update doesn't include the Activities feature or labels but we're working hard to have those available in 2018. Thanks for your patience!
- 10 Minute Videos! Students can now record up to 10 minutes of video or drawing + voice video.- Bug fixes, including long time limits for student codes to join a class (1 hour for Class Code classes, 7 days for Email Sign in classes).
What's New:- Support for viewing the new photo album type of post created on iOS or web.
*NEW* synchronized drawing plus voice annotation tool. Starting with a blank canvas or any photo, you can now draw AND record an audio annotation together. A simple, flexible way for students to explain their thinking, now built right into Seesaw!
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High Quality Instruction
- Enable teachers to deliver high-quality, standards-aligned instruction that encourages student voice and choice
- Multimodal tools make learning accessible and engaging. Tools include video, voice, screen recording, photos, drawing, labeling and more!
- Present to Class mode designed for front of class modeling, whole class instruction and discussions
- Assign activities to all students for center/stations work or whole class independent work. Use student groups to easily differentiate assignments
- Over 1600 research-based and ready-to-teach lessons created by Seesaw’s curriculum experts with whole group instruction videos, 1:1 or small group practice activities and formative assessments. Includes robust lesson plans to support teacher implementation.
- 100k ready-to-assign activities created by our community of educators and 1600+ ready-to-teach scaffolded lessons
Inclusive Family Engagement
- Engage families as partners in the learning process through inclusive two-way communication though portfolios and messages
- Provide a window into the classroom and insight into their child's progress with frequent sharing of student posts and assignments
- Robust messaging with built-in translation into over 100 home languages
- Message Progress Reports to families to keep them informed
Digital Portfolios
- Capture learning completed within and outside of Seesaw through digital portfolios that showcase student growth.
- Organize student work by folder and skill
- Simplify parent-teacher conferences and report cards
Assessment to Support Data-Driven Decisions
- Routinely assess student learning to glean meaningful insights into their understanding and make data-informed instructional decisions
- Formative assessments with auto-graded questions provided detailed and actionable reporting
- Tie skills and standards to activities for easy progress monitoring of key learning objectives
Accessible and Differentiated Learning
- Enable developmentally appropriate, accessible, and differentiated instruction to reach and engage all learners
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