Seesaw in the Classroom (OPSRC)

Once you've created an account, the first thing that you want to do is add students into your classroom on the bottom right-hand corner, you can see there's a button that says plus students.

If you click on that, you'll be given two choices. Either students can be added to your class using their seesaw account or their Google accounts, which this is usually good if you want to

make sure that students are identified according to their post or if you don't want that and you just want students to log in using QR codes or passcodes

generated by seesaw, then you'll click on know.

This is typically good for younger students that you don't want them to have to memorize any account information. Now the restriction on this is that those passcodes only last for an hour till you'll

have to generate them for each class period first I'm going to explore if I click yes here. This will give students step-by-step information on

how to log in using their seesaw account or their Google account and attach their account to the sea salt classroom that you have here. Only you could email students

with instructions if you trust them and this will give a prompt that students can follow step-by-step and get their accounts attached.

Now your other choice is to have students sign in using QR code or passcodes. You're gonna have to click note this window. And from there. You'll be given two choices the shirt devices Choice, lets

students pick their name out of a classroom list when submitting their work be careful when using this option because students can submit their work to other journals.

If your students are one-to-one, then they select their name when logging in and all of their work. We're going to their Journal automatically. So I'm going to click on that option so you can see what that looks like from here.

I'll have to type in each individual students name in my class and I can see once I type that in I have another space where I can type in another Student's name or I could click on paste

a list of students names and then I could start adding students from there. Once you're done you'll click on the submit button on the top right hand corner and went do you do that? It will give you instructions

on how to get students signed in just like before now keep in mind.

They will need this QR code or this text code to be able to sign in every time once they do that. They will pick their name out of

1) Click +Students. 2) Choose adding by students by e-mail/Seesaw account or by QR/pass code. 3a) By e-mail/SeeSaw account: email instructions and invitation to students. 3b) Type in each student's name and share QR/pass code* *Students need a new code for every session. Click +Students then skip to generate a new one.

If you want to create a class blog, the first thing you'll have to do is click on the wrench icon on the top right hand corner 

and this will open up the class settings.

From here, you'll scroll all the way down to the class blog section and click on the toggle button for enable blog.

Once you do that you'll get a pop-up explaining what a class blog is and what options are set up for the class blog.

Once you've read this, you can click on "set up a class blog" or click on learn more to get more information.

From here, you'll select your blog name; and then, you get to select a custom blog URL.

Once Seesaw confirms this as a unique blog URL, you can click on the submit button on the top right-hand corner.

From here, you can select some blog settings, like for example, you can disable or enable comments on your class blog.

By default, all blog comments must require approval. 

Additionally, you can password put your class blog if you want to add another layer of security on your blog.

Once you're done here, you'll click on the arrow key on the top right-hand corner. 

Now, you can share this URL, so other people can see what your students are doing.

Once you've enabled your blog, you'll have the blog icon so you can help manage your classroom blog;

and, you can add things by clicking on the blog symbol on journal entries. 

You just go to the journal find the submission, and click on the blog icon.

It'll ask you if you want to publish this item to the blog; and, if you click on publish to blog, that will send it right to there.

1) Click on class settings (i.e. the wrench icon on the top-right corner of the journal page). 2) Toggle the enable blog option under "Class blog". 3) Click Set Up Public Blog. 4) Type a blog name and URL then submit. 5) Toggle commenting on or password protect the class blog. 6) To share work to class blog, click on the blog icon under a work and click publish to blog.

When students post their work, there's a lot that can be done after that work is posted on the journal.

These options appear up at the bottom of each one of the post that students make,

and students, parents, and teachers can all interact with the post that students make. 

Students can comment by either liking a page which will show who has liked that particular activity. 

Or they can click on comment; and, either add a text comment,

or they can post a voice comment by clicking on the comment page and then clicking on the microphone icon.

Student work can also be organized in folders and you can do that by clicking on the folder icon.

Once you do that, you'll have to create your own folders which can be done by clicking on "+ create a folder" button.

From here, you can select a color and a folder named so I'm going to put this under notes;

and then, once you're done, with that you click the submit button. 

I'm going to click the submit button again to put these in that folder I just created,

 and from there I can see that this particular assignment has been tagged with the notes folder.

In the future, I can also place work inside of this notes folder that I've already created. 

All I have to do is scroll to that work, click on the folder button,

select which folder I want to place it in, and then click on submit. 

Finally if you want to share out any assignments outside of seesaw, you can click on this button with the three dots. 

You can see that there's a couple of options that allow me to edit any of those options I talked about or copy;

but, if I click on share item, it can give me a link or an embed code that I can use to share out student work. 

• Like: Shows who has liked the post • Comment: text or voice. • Folder: +create a folder, pick a name &amp; color, submit.* • Share: gives a link or embed code (in the icon with three dots). *Once a folder is created, click on the folder icon to add other work to the folder.

To create an activity or find an activity first, you'll click on the + add button on the top of your screen and click on assign activity.

From here we can search for an activity that other educators have created,

or we can create our own activity by clicking on create new activity on the button here on the left side.

If you click on this, this will create an activity name space that I can start typing in here and I can add in student instructions in the next field.

From here, there's a couple of options that you can do to add into your activity to make it a little easier for your students or get more of what you expect. 

You can either add voice instructions, which are useful for students who need to have the instructions read to them.

You can add multimedia instructions or an example, 

and this is great if you want to have students have an idea of what you want your end product to look like or you can add in a student template.

This is great if you want students to start with a particular photo or a drawing or some notes. 

There are more options down here. If you click, it will give you some space to add in some teacher notes 

which are only visible to you; or if you have a premium account, you can add skills and attach them to your activity.

That way if students do this activity, they will be an example of that skill. Once you're done you'll click on Save on the button on the bottom right hand corner and you'll be taken to an

Once you're done, you'll click on save on the button on the bottom right-hand corner

 and you'll be taken to an overview page with all the information that you put in your activity. 

Once you create your activity now you'll have to assign it.

You could do that by clicking on the assign button on the top right-hand corner.

You'll select what classes that you want to assign it to; and, if you want, you can even sign it to specific students. 

Once you're done, you'll go down to the bottom right-hand corner and click on assign to class. 

It will give you confirmation that the activity was assigned and when students log in they will start to see the activity pop up for them.

Back on the journal page, you can see that the activity has shown up for you and your students. 

The only thing your students will have to do is click on "add response". 

On this page, since your the teacher, you'll have to select the student; 

and, then from there, they can select their tool to help create what they need to create.  

They can even click on the top, where it says view instructions,

to see any instructions that you place or any templates or examples that you've provided.

1) Click +Add then Assign Activity. 2) Click +Create New Activity. • Add an activity name, student instructions, voice or multimedia instructions, or a student template. • More options: Teacher notes (not visible to students) or skills (only for premium accounts) 3) Save. 4) To assign, select a class (or students) then assign to class. • For students, click +Add response then select a tool.

An Instructional Guide to Using Seesaw in the Classroom

Seesaw is a digital platform that gives students the space to create share and reflect on their work online.

Students can produce original work or engage in reflection activities using Seesaw's creative tool suite.

Teachers can use Seesaw to help manage paperless classroom activities and build a classroom of learners. 

The activities can be created by the teacher or teachers can search for activities created by the Seesaw community of Educators.

Seesaw's communication tools can help students, parents, or the community be more involved in your classroom.

Teachers can create announcements or blogs to share student work, and parents can use their accounts to view and comment on their child's work.

Setting up a Seesaw account is easy, or you could use an already existing Google account or classroom to get started. 

You can use Seesaw to give your students the opportunity to engage in their classroom in a meaningful way.

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<a href="bookcreator://page/rWL4tuhbRiCGxeBFkd59dA">Setting Up an Account</a>

<a href="bookcreator://page/3nDx296iSzWoLRDV0iaMNA">Adding Students</a>

<a href="bookcreator://page/zmHvFLblSYWT2uyD-IP0Bw">Creating Original Work</a>

<a href="bookcreator://page/jqlHfQukTze7mR3Qz8kZMQ">Reflecting on &amp; Submitting Work</a>

<a href="bookcreator://page/M0gCdtuZRM-n226eZJf0Tw">Interacting With Work</a>

<a href="bookcreator://page/PF1k3ccUTbiQZOREzs2Pcg">Creating &amp; Assigning Activities</a>

<a href="bookcreator://page/nH3TIsCJTaueM1Ru46lVkA">Communicating With Parents</a>

<a href="bookcreator://page/EGrPMy-bQnC6quxvcZP4gw">Creating a Classroom Blog</a>

<a href="bookcreator://page/l0GMS18OS6G_dxGNHWatZg">SeeSaw Tips</a>

<a href="bookcreator://page/jDBFUbizSJKtarNrcLmO1Q">Want to Learn More?</a>

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Some Seesaw tools are great at giving students opportunity to reflect on their work.

These tools include the video tool the note tool and the link tool.

I'm going to use the note tool to showcase this.

On the Note tool, you can have students type in any of their notes during presentations or if you want them to reflect

Once they're happy with their notes, they can click on the submit button. 

This gives them access to some tools on the bottom of the screen.

They can either choose to do a voice recording of the reflection or they can choose to edit their notes

On the other tools like the video tool or the link tool, this will be replaced with a text caption 

and allow students to type in their own reflection on whatever they created.

Once they're done, they'll click on the submit button on the top corner.

So since this is a teacher account, we can select students to add this work to.

Since this is an example, I can add it to the sample student account. So I'm going to click on this

and once I'm done I'm going to click on the submit button.

This will take the note that we created and post it in the journal feed which shows up here on the left-hand side. 

This is where all the work that students submit will show up.

 It'll not only show up for you; but, it'll show up for the students as well, so they can see examples.

1) Click +Add then Post Student Work (not shown in this video). 2) Select a Creative Tool. Recommended: note, video, or link. • Tools available: voice record and text editing. 3) Submit. Instructors can choose to submit to a test account.

1) To organize physical work, take pictures of student work and post it under that student's account using the photo tool. 2) You can send announcements to students, parents, or both by clicking on +add then send announcement. 3) If you click on a student's name under "journal", SeeSaw will filter the feed to that student's work; moreover, you can click on print PDF at the top of the page to download a PDF of that student's work. This is great for parent-teacher conferences. 4) When searching for an activity in the SeeSaw library, click the heart icon to save them to your library so you can assign them later.&nbsp; 5) Click the calendar icon on the top-right corner of the journal feed to switch to calendar view. This is helpful when viewing work by day. 6) The Seesaw Class and Family apps are available on Andriod, iOS, and Kindle Fire mobile devices.

To get parents connected to their student's work, the first thing you'll have to do is click on the + families button on the bottom right hand corner of the journal page. 

Once you do that, you'll see a list of all the students in your class 

and you'll be given spaces where you can type in emails or mobile numbers to family members. 

This will send them an invite through those options.

Additionally, you have two other options at the top of the page. 

You can either print invite or you can share an invite link. 

When you click on print invite, you'll be asked for a language;

and, there are a bunch of different languages that you can pick from.

If you click on print invites you can get an idea of what the invite looks like.

On this page, it will give you teacher instructions, so you know what to do 

and on the next page, it will show parents what they need to do. 

They can either connect using their smartphone which will allow them to create an account and start looking at their child's activities,

or they can log in using a browser link. Now if they use this link, parents must be approved by their teacher.

This is to help secure the privacy of the student and the parent.

This is a family view of a student's journal. 

They can see anything that the student has posted. 

They can see what folders it's been posted into they can like or comment just like any student or teacher.

They can even see their responses to other assignments. 

They can also look into different journals just in case they have multiple students 

and they can even take advantage of an inbox system that allows you to send private messages between you and the parents

and it will log everything inside of their Seesaw all accounts.

1) Click +Families 2) Either manually add by email or mobile number, print invites, or share an invite link.* • For parents, they can view or comment on their child's work and send private messages to the instructor. *If parents use a link, they must be approved by the teacher.

7) Seesaw has dedicated resources to use their program remotely. Visit their <a href="https://web.seesaw.me/remote-learning-for-teachers">Remote Learning for Teachers</a> website. 8) For instructors, Seesaw has created a one-page step-by-step instructions for home learning: "<a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55a6e4bde4b0b0ebce635c9d/t/5e8b53957e83b65eee07d2c6/1586189208090/How+to_+Get+Started+with+Home+Learning+with+Seesaw+for+Teachers.pdf">How To for Teac</a><a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55a6e4bde4b0b0ebce635c9d/t/5e8b53957e83b65eee07d2c6/1586189208090/How+to_+Get+Started+with+Home+Learning+with+Seesaw+for+Teachers.pdf">hers</a>" and "<a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55a6e4bde4b0b0ebce635c9d/t/5e868612e459ab19a04aa9a9/1585874452243/Home+learning+with+seesaw+1+pager+english.pdf">How To for Students</a>". 9) By default, parents can only see their child's work and students can see their class' and their work. If you want to only allow students to see their own work, go to Class Settings (i.e the wrench icon on the top-right corner), and toggle "Students can see each other's work".

In this video, we're going to show you how to set up a Seesaw account and set up your first classroom.

Your first step is to go to your favorite internet browser and go to "seesaw.me". 

Once you go there you'll be taken to this main page where you can get more information about Seesaw,

or you can do your first step which is to either click on the "sign up for free button" on the tab on the top right-hand corner or click on this blue button.

If you click on any one of those, you'll be taken to this page. 

This is the main login page that either students or family members can sign in.

This is where you'll get started if you're a teacher account. 

So I'm going to click on "I'm a teacher",

and you'll be taken to this page. Now, you have two choices.

On the top, you can either sign up with a Seesaw specific account by entering your information

or if you have a Google account, you can click on the button that says "teacher sign up with Google".

Once you create your teacher account or sign in with Google, you'll be taken to this page.

If this is your first time here, you'll have to create your first class by clicking on "create your first class"

or you can listen to this introduction video created by Seesaw. 

I'm going to click on "create your first class", and you'll be given this pop-up window. 

You can either import a class from Google Classroom that's already created which will upload your roster,

or you could create a class right here by typing in the name of your class; so, I'm going to go with an algebra class. That's pretty common,

and I'm going to click on the 8th grade grade level. 

Now, you must select a grade level. It will help you identify what grade is attached to your class. 

Additionally, it will help out later when you search for activities. It will help search by this grade level. 

Once you're done, you'll click on the circle with the checkmark on it to submit.

Once you've done that, you'll be taken to the main page

which is called the journal; and we can use this to get to the different parts of Seesaw.

1) Go to seesaw.me or seesaw.com 2) Click I'm a Teacher 3) Sign up for an account or use a Google account. 4) Click Create your First Class 5) Import a Google Classroom or create your own. 6) Submit your class.

In this video, we're going to start exploring Seesaw's creative tools suite. 

We can get started by clicking on the green plus add button at the top of the screen and then clicking on post student work.

We're going to create some original work this can either be done with the photo tool the drawing tool or the upload tool.

The easiest of the three is the drawing tool. So, let's select that. 

On this blank page, there are a lot of tools for me to use and you can see them all on the outside parts of this page.

Starting on the left side, I have my text tool. If I click on this, this will give me a text box that I can manipulate

Once I type in some text, I can either change the color using the color bar on the right-hand side 

or can treat this like an object and click and move it around.

Right below the text bubble is the voice recording bubble.

This turns your drawing into a video which is useful if you want to have students do presentations. 

The button below that is the photo button.

You can either add a photo by taking a picture using your webcam attached to your device 

or you can upload a video that you have access to through your Google Drive or your local drive. 

The next button right below that allows you to add in shapes or change the background of the page. 

So if I click on a shape, I can add in this nice little heart,

and I can either choose to make it bigger or smaller; and, I can even change the color of it. Just like in the text box. 

I can even rotate it around if I need to. 

The button on the bottom left-hand corner with these quotations is the caption button.

Now, this isn't necessarily captions for the drawing itself, but when students are looking at a video and they just want an overview of what the product is. 

You can either add in text captions that will just give a brief description of the product 

or they can add a voiceover which is useful if you want to do reflections or an explanation of the work.

Now on the very bottom are some pen and move tools and eraser tools.

If I click on this tool with the finger on it, this will allow me to move any object that's in my space here.

The second tool is the pen tool which is very thin, and I can change the color of that as well.

The tool after that is the highlighter tool, and this is useful if you want to color over any of the markings that you've done before.

Then, we have this magic marker tool. It just looks really nice, especially on different backgrounds.

and then there's the Eraser tool. You know, sometimes you might make some mistakes and that is okay. We can erase it if we need to.

On the right-hand side, you can add pages; but, keep in mind that is for premium Seesaw accounts.

If you are interested in there's lots of information for that.

Once you're done, you could submit this by clicking on the submit button on the top right hand corner.right-hand

1) Click +Add then Post Student Work. 2) Select a Creative Tool. Recommended: drawing, photo, or upload tool.* • Left-side: text, voice record, photo/shape, caption tool. • Bottom: move, pencil, marker, highlight, magic marker, and eraser tool. • Right-side: change color (context sensitive). *Note: if a higher quality picture is available on a different device, upload photos instead of using the photo tool.

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