Audience: Teachers
Messages in Seesaw enable you to communicate with students, families, and colleagues!
✉️ You can start 1:1 messages, group conversations, or whole-group announcements.
💬 You can choose if a message is one-way or two-way.
🔍 You can use the search bar to quickly find recipients.
🎥 You can send multimedia attachments with built-in photos, video, and audio.
🌐 Translate all typed text in one tap.
✓ View engagement with read receipts.
💡 Good to know: Administrators can personalize the Messages experience for your school by determining which administrators, teachers, students, and family members can create messages. Teachers: ask your administrator what settings they have chosen for your school.
Use announcements for one-way messages, such as:
- Newsletter and classroom reminders to families for things such as field trips or days off.
- Provide additional learning resources that can be used at home.
- Whole class reminders, events and celebrations to students.
Good to Know:
- Announcement member names are hidden.
- Family members can reply to Announcements in a private message, if settings are enabled.
- Co-teachers can be added to conversations.
Conversations can be 1:1 or Group Messages. Co-teachers can be added to conversations.
Use conversations for:
- Discussing student progress with a student and family member/s
- Connecting groups of students to facilitate discussion or group work
- individual recipients for 1:1 message
- numerous recipients for a customized group
- Add Classes for an entire class
To message families or students, in the Journal Tab, hover over a Student Group or Individual Student. Tap the conversation bubble icon and select Message Family(ies) or Message Student(s).
Share Activity Links from Resource Library or Journal: Teachers can share activity/lesson links with teachers or students from the Journal Tab or Seesaw Library. To share links, tap on the [...] and select either Share Activity with Teachers or Share Student Link.
Share Progress from Progress Dashboard (paid subscriptions only): From the Progress Dashboard, Teachers can message connected family members with a text copy of progress information pre-filled.
If there are no connected family members, Teachers will be prompted to open the "Invite Families" page.
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- Select a student from the Progress Dashboard.
- In the modal, tap Message to Family.
- A New Conversation will open with the message recipients and a progress report summary pre-populated.
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The Creative Tools view will appear, and you'll be able to upload a file, attach a photo or video, write a note, share a link, or use the Creative Canvas to draw and annotate a picture!
Conversations
- All recipients will see each other's names and replies.
- to see who has viewed a Conversation, tap on Seen By.
- Teachers/Admins can view read receipts.
- Teachers/Admins can see if a Conversation has been translated.
- Parents do not see when a Teacher/Admin has read their message.
Announcements
- Announcements do not show recipients information about who else is receiving the message.
- Tap Seen by to view who has viewed an Announcement..
- Teachers/Admins can view read receipts.
- Teachers/Admins can see if an Announcement has been translated.
- Based on school settings, families can reply directly to teachers.
Learn more about Student Safety in Seesaw Messages.
Check out our Messages Quick Start Guides!