Seesaw - How Parents and Students Submit Work in Seesaw

This chapter provides instructions for parents or students on sharing student work samples on Seesaw. 

If a student is adding work samples, it would be best for a parent to review what to add and help supervise this until the student understands what to share with their support teacher. 

Getting Started 

• Open your Seesaw Journal in the Seesaw Class App or by accessing app.seesaw.meme.  
• If you have logged in before, your family class should open without needing to log in again.

Step One:

The app will open to the activity tab for the last class you were logged into. Tip: If your child is in CC/CC+, make sure you are in the Foundations Class, not the CC/CC+ class, when you post. When you click your child's name (top-left corner), you can see the other classes they are enrolled in.	Click the student name again to see the other children in your family.

Step Two:

TheTo apppost willa open to the activity tab. If yousample, click on your child's name in the top"journal" lefttab. corner, You The 'Class Journal' will show all work loaded into Seesaw with the most recent submissions at the top If you click on 'Child 1', you willYou'll see all submissions posted for Child 1 listed from newest to oldest.  This will include any posts that were 'tagged'tagged withfor otherthat childrenchild. in the family.  the Journal page looks like this:  How to Add Work Samples Step 1 Click the green '+Add' button to add a post.

Step 2

Three:

• Choose
parentswillusethe'upload'feature

On the Creativepage Toolthat toopens: post work Select a creative tool that best fits the work to be uploadeduploaded: Use the 'upload' feature to add photos from their phone camera roll, computer, or Google Drive. You can takeTake a photo ofor yourvideo work,right uploadin the app. Click the pencil to make a photodrawing, ofwrite yournotes, worketc. from Use yourthe camera"note" orpad computer,for adda written post. Click the "link" button to share a link (e.g., to a video, addother adocument, link,etc.) or create your own work on a blank canvas or note page Follow the prompts for the Creative Tool you are using to upload the samplessamples. Most

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upload

Step photosFour:

fromtheirphonecamera roll or their computer, or Google drive.

Students may use the photo or video option through the Seesaw App to use the built-in camera or video tool provided in the Seesaw Class App to submit work samples to the teacher.  Step 3 You can edit the post by adding voice recordings, drawings, text labels, or captions by clicking the icons to the left of your screen.	You can also click the quotation mark button at the bottom left side of the page to record a voice message or upload an audio file to accompany the work samplesample.

Step 4Five:

Tap the Green 'check mark' at the top right to complete your post	Optional: select a folder or folders to tag your work sample. It will still appear in your journal, with subject tags.

Step Six:

Once it's posted, click the three dots in the bottom-right corner of the post, then select "edit people" to add other students to that sample.	In the window that opens, select the students the post applies to, and click the green checkmark to add it to each portfolio.

Step 5Seven:

• Tag or select the students who completed the work
• You are able to select one student or multiple students for each sample added



Step 6

• Click the green check mark again
• The work sample will show up in the Class Journal and can be found within each child’s journal 
• See below, the work sample was selected for all of the children in this family as can be seen with the tag 'Everyone'
  



Step 7

• If you would like toTo add a furthercomment comment,or additional details about the post, click the 'Comment' box under the posted work sample
• Click on the student’s name
• Enter the Comment

If multiple children worked on a sample and thewrite commentyour appliescomment. to all of them, feel free to enter the extra comment under one child’s name and indicate the comment applies to all of them.  

• If you wish to add something unique to another child, youYou can add another comment and select that particular child.



• Write a comment.
• You may also add a voice comment by clicking the microphone
microphone. 
• You will now seeIf the samplecomment uploadedapplies to all students, simply add that to the 'Classnote. Journal' and attached to each individual child's journal as well

Additional Support

How to use Multipage to post up to 20 pages 

How to add multiple photos to a post