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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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Meaningful learning can happen anywhere. Share these activities with students to support repeated home learning routines. Find additional remote learning resources for students, teachers, and families at https://web.seesaw.me/remote-learning

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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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✓ Unlimited number of participants attend the session from any location

✓ Access to the recording for future use

✓ Live Q&A with Seesaw experts

✓ Mix-and-match sessions to meet PD objectives and staff needs

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GUIDE FOR SCHOOL & DISTRICT ADMINISTRATORS

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GUIDE FOR SCHOOL & DISTRICT ADMINISTRATORS

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Step 3: Set Up Remote Access for Students

If students sign in with email addresses, they do not need a home learning code. To protect student privacy, set up trusted IP networks so students only see their own work from home.

If students sign in with text/QR codes, they will use home learning codes. Home learning codes allow students to log into the Seesaw Class App at home while protecting students' privacy. Here are 3 options to access home learning codes:

Get a CSV of all student codes: In Admin Tools, click 'Get Home Learning Student Codes'. You will receive a link via email to download a CSV. Use a mail merge tool to distribute codes quickly.

Get printable PDFs: In Class Settings for each class, click 'Get Home Learning Student Codes'.

Enable teachers to get printable PDFs: In School settings, enable 'Allow Teachers to Get Home Learning Codes'.

*If you're setting up Seesaw for Schools for the first time, start with our Setup Guide.

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5 Surprising Things You Can Do With Seesaw

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Have you tried Seesaw yet? This digital portfolio app allows you to capture student thinking and learning through pictures, drawings, writing, video, and voice and then privately share them with families. But did you know that it is so much more than just a portfolio tool? Here are five ways I use Seesaw in my classroom.

1. Send home newsletters in Seesaw.

I no longer make copies of a newsletter that may or may not make it home crumpled up in the bottom of a backpack. Instead, I use family announcements in Seesaw to send messages to all families at once. Not only does this save a tree, but parents get a notification when there is a new announcement.

From there, they can do things such as ask a question about the upcoming field trip, "like" a class picture I shared, or make a comment on it. Seesaw now has a translation option too. This new feature gives parents the option of translating the message into 55 different languages. They can even reply to you in their native language, and you can hit the translate button to read their responses.

Take it up a notch with video announcements.

You can create a video right inside Seesaw or use another tool, such as Shadow Puppet EDU, iMovie, or Powtoon, to share a video with families. This is great for explaining homework directions or sharing a new strategy you taught in class. This year I'm introducing myself to my new class with a PowToon video that I am going to send to families, using Seesaw. My son's teachers also send video announcements through Seesaw, and as a parent,
I LOVE it! It's so much easier to stay up to date on what they are learning by watching a three-minute video instead of reading a long newsletter. And it's so much easier to make a short video announcement than it is to write a newsletter!

2. Send students on a scavenger hunt with Seesaw Go.

Use Seesaw Go to take a tour of your classroom in a fun, interactive, and collaborative way. The Seesaw team has created a scavenger hunt with talking emojis that is ready to use in your classroom. Just print out their game boards and QR codes. Hang the QR codes in important places around the room, such as the classroom library, where backpacks are hung, and even on the teacher! In small groups, students have to find and scan the hidden QR codes. Then they cross off the matching emoji on their game board until they have found them all. This fun activity gets students moving and collaborating while learning about important places in the classroom.

Take it up a notch by teaching procedures with a scavenger hunt for students and parents.

Try personalizing a Seesaw scavenger hunt for your classroom. To begin the year, I'm using Seesaw to create a digital breakout for my class. Just like an escape room, they will have to solve puzzles and clues about procedures and rules in our classroom in order to find the code that will open the digital locks! The clues will be Seesaw videos on QR codes hidden around the room.

You can also have students help you create a scavenger hunt for their parents to explore during open house. Have students draw self-portraits and use the app Chatterpix to create videos about important information parents need to know. They can explain things such as homework expectations or how students are dismissed at the end of the day. It can even include important
places to find in the school, such as the cafeteria or the office. They can also hunt for helpful people like the janitor or the librarian. Instead of printing a game board, have students take a picture of the people or places they find on the scavenger hunt and post them on SeeSaw.

3. Differentiate with video directions.

Teachers are pulled in so many different directions that they have probably wished they could clone themselves at one time or another. While cloning is not yet an option on the SeeSaw dashboard, try recording directions. Just take a picture of an assignment and use the record tool in Seesaw to read the directions. Then print Seesaw's QR code of the video. Paste it onto the assignment, and students can scan it and listen as needed. It's almost like cloning yourself!

Take it up a notch with student-created teaching videos.

Let your student experts do some of the teaching! You can differentiate for your advanced students by letting them create teaching videos in the style of Khan Academy. Some of our
advanced fourth graders showed mastery in fractions. So they got to use Seesaw to create teaching videos that showed their classmates how to turn mixed fractions into improper fractions. They used the draw-and-record tool to model it, and they narrated their thinking through each step. We printed the QR code from their video and posted it on the classroom anchor chart. The class got to watch it whenever they needed an example. We also shared it with parents so the students could reference it when doing homework at home. This gave students the opportunity to learn from each other and feel like movie stars!

4. Create formative assessments with Seesaw Activities.

Seesaw Activities are a great way to structure common grade-level assessments and collect data that captures student thinking. Kindergarten students were working on writing the correct short vowel sound in a word. The kindergarten teacher created a formative assessment in Seesaw Activities that included sentences with picture clues such as, "I see a fish and a fan." The short
vowels in "fish" and "fan" were missing. The students had to use the draw-and-record tool in Seesaw to write in the correct vowel and read the sentence. This was assigned to all kindergarten students as a Seesaw Activity. As a team, the kindergarten teachers got to analyze the student answers and the kind of mistakes they were making. Being able to hear their thinking out loud gives an insight into their processing that you couldn't get by just looking at their answers alone.

Take it up a notch with RTI progress monitoring.

When students go through the RTI process, it usually begins with a six- to eight-week classroom intervention. A Seesaw Activity is a great place to record their progress. We had a first grade student who had OT concerns. His teacher created a template for shapes that he needed to practice tracing. She was able to assign it as a Seesaw Activity over the course of the intervention to the one student who needed it. When she returned to the RTI team after six weeks, the whole team got to watch several recordings of this student finger-tracing the lines of each shape. The ability to watch a recording of a student's thinking as they completed the same task over and over is invaluable information to share with an RTI team. When everyone can essentially see and hear the student, it gives everyone a glimpse into that child's learning process.

5. Use Seesaw skills as a standards-based gradebook.

Did you know that you can tag student work with Common Core Standards, TEKS, etc. and grade them on that standard in Seesaw? You can score their work using a three to six-star rating. It is color-coded red (1), yellow (2), light green (3), and dark green (4), so you can see at a glance which standards have been taught. It also calculates each student's average score on every standard that you tag by color coding it. It's a built-in gradebook!

Take it up a notch with student self-assessment.

Have students create goals and assess themselves using a rubric. Third through fifth grade students created SMART goals for their keyboarding fluency. After taking a keyboarding test to see how fast and accurately they typed at the beginning of the year, they set goals for themselves and tracked their progress on Seesaw. Then I used Seesaw Skills to grade their progress after they completed new typing tests throughout the year. It's very helpful to have student goals and self-reflections along with the teacher's grade all in one place when filling out report cards or during parent-teacher conferences.
We'd love to hear how you use Seesaw in the classroom. Come and share in our WeAreTeachers HELPLINE group on Facebook. Plus, how I use Instagram in language arts.

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Seesaw is a student-driven digital portfolio that empowers students of any age to independently document what they are learning at school and share it with their teachers, parents, classmates, and even the world.

Used in over 200,000 classrooms, 1-in-4 schools in the US, and over 100 countries!
Named Best Website of 2016 by American Association of School Librarians, Top Pick for Education 2016 by Common Sense Media, and featured in by Apple as "Perfect for Every Classroom" for 9 months. Named Best App of 2015 by Graphite Common Sense Media, American Association of School Librarians, and Richard Byrne's Free Tech for Teachers. WHAT IS SEESAW?:
For students, Seesaw helps them see their own growth and provides an audience for their work - whether that be peers, parents, or the world at large.

For parents, Seesaw gives an immediate, personalized window into their child's day so they can support learning at home.

For teachers, Seesaw saves time on organization and communication, makes formative assessment easy, and provides a safe place to teach digital citizenship skills.
FEATURES:
Easily Capture Student Learning in Any Form

Students can use photos, videos, drawings, text notes, links or PDFs to show what they know and store evidence in their digital portfolio. You can also import from 100s of other apps.

When students add to Seesaw, content is uploaded, organized by student, and accessible from any device.

Teachers can browse work from the entire class or for a single student. Optionally, use folders to organize work by subject area project, or assessment standard.

Teachers can flag items in the digital portfolio for follow up or to review at parent-teacher conferences.

Sign In Options that Work for All Ages

Younger learners or classrooms with shared devices can sign in with a QR code.

Older students can sign in with their email address or Google account.

Encourage Reflection and Provide an Authentic Audience

Seesaw helps capture the learning process not just the end result. Students can use Seesaw's built-in audio recording and drawing tools to reflect on what they've learned or explain how they got their answer.

Seesaw gives students an authentic audience of their peers and parents, encouraging better work and real feedback. Teachers can control who can see what, and what feedback options are available, such as likes and comments.

Strengthen Connections Between School and Home

Include families in the learning process by inviting them to view updates to their child's Seesaw journal. Seesaw's immediate, visual updates actually get seen by parents, provide encouragement for students, and cross language barriers.

Teachers approve all new additions and comments before anything is shared with parents.

Seesaw Blogs - the easiest way to create a blog for your class!

Create a public webpage for your class and give students a global audience for their work.

Teachers and students can post a selection of Seesaw items to the class blog in just one tap. No other apps, websites or embed codes needed! All posts are teacher-moderated.

Connect to other class blogs directly within the Seesaw app so students can easily comment and collaborate with students from other classrooms.

Teacher Resource Center at help.seesaw.me

Getting started tips, professional development resources, FAQ.

More than 100 Common Core aligned activity ideas for K-12.

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How to Use SeeSaw for Distance Learning

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First of all, I hope you are all safe, healthy, and as sane as possible as we navigate this new reality we are all living in. Working from home with a school-aged child has been exhausting, exciting, and eye-opening all at once. Whether you are teaching, working, parenting, or all three, you have probably done more on a computer in the last month than ever before.

To begin with, teachers are doing whatever they can to stay connected to their students. For many, that means finding and learning new tools as quickly as possible. If you're lucky enough to work for a district that has dedicated instructional technology teachers, you may be feeling overwhelmed by the amount of information that has been thrown at you. Google Classroom, Zoom,Google Meet, Flipgrid are all tools you may be exploring. If you don't work for a district like that, you may be feeling overwhelmed by the lack of information. Whatever your situation, chances are you've been a bit overwhelmed.

The goal here is to help lessen that overwhelming feeling. One of the most effective and useful distance learning tools is Seesaw. My daughter's teacher is using Seesaw to share activities and communicate with parents and students! If you are on the fence about Seesaw as a remote learning tool, please read on to learn 5 Tips for Using Seesaw for Distance Learning!

Use Home Learning Codes

To help with distance and at-home learning, Seesaw has just come out with a new type of log-in for students. "Home Codes" were created to allow students to be able to work from home. With these codes, students do not have to remember a Google log-in or an email address/password combo. This is perfect for primary grade students! The log-in process is similar to what students do in the classroom with the teacher's QR code. With "Home Learning Codes", students can only see their journal/work as opposed to being able to see everyone else in the class.

To get started, click on the "Home Learning Codes" banner on your classroom landing page. It should look like this:

After you click on the "Get Home Learning Codes" you should see the option to print or download codes for each of your classes. Each student will need their own "Home Learning Code" because they are individual to the student.

To begin, choose the "Download" option. The document downloads as a spreadsheet, with a link to the individual "Home Learning Code" for each student. The spreadsheet also includes the parent emails if the student has family connected to their account, so everything you need is right on one page. When you click on the link next to the student, a PDF specifically for that student opens to forward on to the parents. The PDF has instructions on it for the students and families, so they can get started right away!

Keep Parents Engaged

When Seesaw first came on the scene, a big draw was the fact that parents could have an app on their phones/tablets/etc. that connected them to their child's schoolwork. The school-to-home connection Seesaw provided was a new concept, and the online journal of student activities drew parents in. (No more scrapbooking? Or saving random pieces of paper? Sign me up!)

In order to make the best use of this connection while distance learning, parents need to be connected to their students. If you have not already completed this step, there is no better time than now! From your landing page, look for a plus sign with the word "Families" next to it.

Once you click on that button, you may be asked to "Turn on Family Access." Don't worry if you don't see this window, you only have to do it once, and you may have clicked it a long time ago!

When you see the invite page, you have several options for each student. You can put in an email address or mobile number for each individual student, and invite parents individually. You can also print the invites or send an invite link to parents. The last option is convenient if you already have a parent email list.

Once you have parents invited, you will see who is connected by clicking on the same button - the "+ Families" button. Just like the "Home Learning Codes," the invites for families walk them through the sign-up process step-by-step. In the rare event where you have a parent who can't get connected, just remind them that they need to have the "Seesaw Family" app instead of the "Seesaw Class" app.

Eliminate App Fatigue

If you are like me, you are probably tired of jumping between platforms, trying to remember where the buttons are, what to click on to "accept the invite" and how to keep everything straight. Can you imagine how students feel? Seesaw is now robust enough to be considered an "all-in-one" platform. While it is not quite a "Learning Management System," having student work through Seesaw helps them manage their distance-learning experience and gives them only one platform to master.

You can help students do this by showing them all the different types of journal entries they can send in. As students, they can click on the big green plus button on their landing page, and add a journal entry in one of a few formats.

Both the "Photo" and the "Video" options open the built-in camera on the device the students are using. From there, students take the photo or video as usual and click the green check button to submit their work.

The "Upload" option allows students to choose an already-existing file from their device to send in. "Drawing" allows students the most versatility - and is my personal favorite! Have students work with either the "Upload" or "Drawing" choices. "Upload" allows students to share something they created elsewhere, and "Drawing" allows for multiple pictures, annotation, backgrounds, and lots of other fun things for students.

The "Note" option is a text-based, lined file that students can type in. Lastly, the "Link" option is the chance for a student to share a URL with their teacher. These two options are more appropriate for upper-elementary students.

Browse the "Activity Library"

When you are ready to start sending activities to your students for independent learning, make sure you look in the "Activity Library." Activities in Seesaw are like individualized assignments for students - you can "assign" them to the whole class, just one student, or anywhere in between. The "Activity Library" is a collection of activities that have already been created by "Seesaw Ambassadors" - master users.

In the Activity Library, you can choose from all sorts of topics, grade levels, and skills. When you click on "Browse Activity Library" OR click on the "Community" tab in the "Activity Library" screen to browse options from all over the curriculum!

When you find an activity you like, click on the heart icon in the upper, right-hand corner of the screen. This saves that activity to your "My Library" tab, where you can assign the activity to any class, student, or group of students you would like!

Create your own Activities!

If you are getting bored with assigning activities someone else created, you can try your hand at making your own! From your "My Library" tab, click on the first option - "Create New Activity."

From here, you can add anything you would like. Give the activity a name that helps you remember the lesson it goes with. Make sure your student instructions are clear and easy to follow. Add a recording of you explaining the activity if you think it would be helpful. An example from the teacher is usually a good idea if you have one. Lastly, a template for your students to fill out can ease some stress for everyone, especially if you work with younger students.

It is a good idea to try your activity out with one or two trusted families before sending it out to a whole class or grade. Sometimes what seems simple to us as teachers can be confusing to families who don't use our nomenclature every day.

Seesaw is a tool that is certainly worth exploring if you haven't already. The possibilities for connecting with students and families while distance learning worth the hassle of learning a new platform. Which of these 5 Tips for Using Seesaw for Distance Learning will you try? Which ones have you already done? What tips and tricks have you found when using Seesaw?

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First of all, I hope you are all safe, healthy, and as sane as possible as we navigate this new reality we are all living in. Working from home with a school-aged child has been exhausting, exciting, and eye-opening all at once.