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Quick Start Guide 2020 Seesaw for Schools users

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Quick Start Guide 2020 Seesaw for Schools users

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Quick Start for Seesaw for Schools Teachers - Introduction to Seesaw

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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Your go to spot for implementation and learning. For teachers and admin.

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School & District -Subscriptions | Seesaw

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Seesaw provides free professional learning for teachers, including live events, on-demand playlists, step-by-step guides, and more.

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Quick Start Guide 2020 - Free and Plus users

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Quick Start Guide 2020 - Free and Plus users

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Quick Start for Free and Plus Teachers - Introduction to Seesaw

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Ideas for your Classroom!

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3 Steps to start using Activities - PD in your PJs..

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3 Steps to start using Activities - PD in your PJs..

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PD in Your PJs  - 3 Steps to Start Using Seesaw's Activity Library

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With our Skills View feature, you can keep track of what skills or standards your students are working towards. Additionally, you can assign a 1-4 star rating to get a real-time understanding of ho...

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Tour of Family App (Previously known as Parent App)

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Tour of Family App (Previously known as Parent App)

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Take a look inside the Seesaw Family App

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Thank you Sara Malchow!

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Seesaw note ENG- Open House/Back to School

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With Seesaw Plus or Seesaw for Schools, you can now schedule activities for dates and times in the future! 1. When creating a new activity, tap 'more options'. 2. Tap 'Edit' next to 'Share On' to ...

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To add a Skill 1. Tap the wrench icon. 2. Tap 'Manage Skills'. 3. Tap 'New Skill'. The only required field are a name and/or quick code. Quick codes are used to align state/school standards, but y...

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Seesaw is compatible with any app or website that supports exporting as a photo, video, PDF or link. To share from some apps in the iOS app, you may need to enable the Share Extension first. You ca...

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Graphic Organizers
Student Presentations
Task Cards
Digital Citizenship Posters AND
MUCH MORE!

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Seesaw Help Center: Getting started tips, tutorial videos, professional development, lesson plans, FAQ and more resources to help you use Seesaw for student driven digital portoflios and parent communication.

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Seesaw is compatible with any app or website that supports exporting as a photo, video, PDF or link. To share from some apps in the iOS app, you may need to enable the Share Extension first. You ca...

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How to Create your Own Activities - Pd in Your PJs

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How to Create your Own Activities - Pd in Your PJs

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PD in Your PJs - Creating Your Own Activities

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Mrs Priestley ICT - How to make a Seesaw activity using a google slide template

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Billings Public Schools Seesaw Activities

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Keep student posts organized by creating and using folders in Seesaw

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Family App (Previously known as Parent App)

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Family App (Previously known as Parent App)

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Take a look inside the Seesaw Family App

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Want to make your own Activities-check out how to use the shortcuts!

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Seesaw icons are a great way to make activity instructions more visual and easier for students to follow.

Use the below shortcuts to create Seesaw icons in your activity instructions.

1. Type in the text shortcut in between two : : (for example, :photo:)

2. When you save your activity, the icons will turn into emojis.

The below shortcuts can be downloaded and printed as a PDF here or by clicking on the attachment at the bottom of this page.

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How to use Seesaw icon shortcuts in Activities instructions

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Seesaw icons are a great way to make activity instructions more visual and easier for students to follow. Use the below shortcuts to create Seesaw icons in your activity instructions. 1. Type in the text shortcut in between two : : (for example, :photo:) 2.

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Digital Citizenship Guidelines and Posters

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Seesaw Digital Citizenship Guidelines and Posters

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Ideas for your Classroom!

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Great way to kick off the year with your students!

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Ideas for your Classroom!

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PD in Your PJs: Brand New to Seesaw Grades 3-5, Part 1

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Great way to kick off the year with your students!

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PD in Your PJs Sprint: 3 Math Ideas for 3rd-5th Grade

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All Sprint Sessions are 10-15 mintues!

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PD in Your PJs Sprint: #BookSnaps with Seesaw

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PD in Your PJs: Reading Response Routines with Seesaw

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PD in Your PJs Sprint: Listening Stations Come Alive!

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Admin can add this file to Skills view - can be used PYP wide.

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Seesaw for Schools Skills Template - PYP Skills

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Seesaw for Schools Skills Template - UK National Curriculum FS1 & FS2

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How to Create Graphic Organizers for Seesaw

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How to Create Graphic Organizers for Seesaw

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Disclaimer: If you want to read about the WHY behind designing custom graphic organizers in my class, keep reading. I like to talk, so if you want to go straight to the instructions, scroll down!

This is the first year that I have had the opportunity to guide my learners through Project Time, sometimes know as Genius Hour or Passion Project. If you are not familiar with this, Project Time is one period a week in which learners have the freedom to learn about something that speaks to them, or interests them, and probably wouldn't appear in the usual units taught in the classroom. Maybe a students wants to know more about composing music, or harp seals, or making slime. As long as learners have a purpose in mind and are working towards their goals, it's doable! Pretty cool if you ask me.

I was eager to jump on the Project Time bandwagon at the start of the year and was happy to have some help getting started with organization thanks to Kath Murdoch's The Power of Inquiry (a must read for any inquiry teacher!). She includes several great tools in her book to get learners on the right track to be purposeful in their personal inquiries.

As Project Time got underway in my classroom, I found myself running to the photocopier more than I wanted. Two students wanted to change their project topics-go copy. Another student can't find her daily planning sheet-go copy. And each week daily planning sheets needed to be handed out again. Plus, with learners working at their own pace, new project proposal sheets needed to be made at different times. I knew there had to be a better way to avoid this headache.

My first attempt at going digital was to ask my class to hop onto Seesaw and add a quick post at the end of each Project Time period to let me know what they accomplished and what their next steps were. Not bad, but this only cut down my paperwork a little bit. I needed to do something more.

When I became a Seesaw Ambassador this year, I remembered coming across a slideshow containing different graphic organizers that could be used for Seesaw. Aha! I could create my own and go completely digital!

I used Kath Murdoch's graphic organizers from her book and recreated them with small changes to the spaces for student input. Here are the final products:

I wanted to make sure it worked the way I hoped it would, so using Seesaw's file upload option and the abilities to add text and draw, I was able to do this:
Here's how:
BINGO! Now I have a solution to paper waste and wasted time! The beauty is that you can custom make ANY kind of graphic organizer you want for you learners.

1.) Use Google Slides, PowerPoint, or Keynote to make your custom graphic organizer template. For mine, I used Google Slides and added lines, shapes, images, and text boxes to create the desired look. I started with a blank layout, changed the background color, and built up from there.

2.) Once your graphic organizer is made, save it as a JPEG image.

3.) Now open Seesaw. In Seesaw, choose the green add button to add a new item and choose the option to Share Activity.

4.) Choose Create New to create a custom activity for your class/group of students/individuals.

5.) Fill in the information for the new activity. Choose "Add template for students to edit."

6.) Choose the option to Add File. This is where you will upload your custom graphic organizer. Choose your file from your device.

7.) After you have selected the file, click the green check button.

8.) On the next screen, you can either choose the green check button, or if you want to add further information, choose one of the options at the bottom of the screen.

9.) Next, either choose to Preview the activity or Save as Draft.

10.) Finally, choose the green Share button at the bottom of the screen.

11.) When your learners open the activity in Seesaw, they will have the option to add text anywhere on the graphic organizer and draw/write their responses. It's that easy!

If you want to use a common graphic organizer, you can search online for an image of one, save to your device, and use the same steps as above without the hassle of designing your own. If you have a resource book with graphic organizers, you can take a photo of the desired organizer, upload to your device, and again follow the steps above.

I hope this helps you as much as it helped me!

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How to Create Graphic Organizers for Seesaw

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Disclaimer: If you want to read about the WHY behind designing custom graphic organizers in my class, keep reading. I like to talk, so if you want to go straight to the instructions, scroll down! This is the first year that I have had the opportunity to guide my learners through Project Time, sometimes know as...

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School & District -Subscriptions | Seesaw

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Meaningful learning can happen anywhere. Set up a secure remote/distance learning environment when emergencies like COVID-19 cause school closure. We're here to help with resources to support effective remote/distance learning experiences for students, teachers, and families.

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K-12 School Verification Form

Zoom is temporarily lifting the 40-minute time limit on free Basic accounts for schools affected by the Coronavirus. Here's how to get access for your school.

Step 1

Sign up for a free Basic account here using your school's email address.

Step 2

Fill out the below information for your school to remove the 40 minute time limit for anyone on your school's domain after verification. Personal email addresses such as Gmail, Yahoo, or Outlook are not eligible.

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Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing

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Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training rooms, as well as executive offices and classrooms. Founded in 2011, Zoom helps businesses and organizations bring their teams together in a frictionless environment to get more done.

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Using Seesaw for Distance Learning - Susan Jones

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Using Seesaw for Distance Learning - Susan Jones

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How to upload and create lessons in Seesaw | Seesaw tutorial for teachers

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Announcements and Messages Mini Training

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Announcements and Messages Mini Training

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Seesaw Announcements and Messages Mini-Training

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Seesaw for Remote learning - Only happy Classroom

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Seesaw for Remote learning - Only happy Classroom

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Using SeeSaw For Remote Learning (for younger grades)

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How to Make a Clickable Checklist Seesaw Activity

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Casey shares her hard work freely. Please DO NOT sell her work!

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Kayla shares her hard work freely. Please DO NOT sell her work.

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Resources to Start the year.

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We are here to support you! Get the most out of Seesaw with our training support resources. Below you will find all of our most popular tools - printable quick start guides, short training videos, webinars, and other helpful links. We can't wait to see what you and your students create in Seesaw!

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We are here to support you! Get the most out of Seesaw with our training support resources. Below you will find all of our most popular tools - printable quick start guides, short training videos, webinars, and other helpful links. We can't wait to see what you and your students create in Seesaw!