Audience: Admins with school and district subscriptions
As a returning Seesaw Admin (school or district), we want to ensure that your Back-to-School season runs smoothly. We’ve created the following guides to make sure you’re on the right track as you return to Seesaw.
🌟 If you're new to Seesaw please see How to Set Up Your School.
Before you create any new classes for the upcoming school year, double-check that you have completed the following end of year steps:
- Archive last year’s classes (steps for district admin | steps for school admin)
- Remove any teachers who no longer work at your school
- Archive inactive student accounts
If you are creating your classes via CSV, you will use our Roster Template to build a spreadsheet of data, import it to your school, and create your classes in bulk. View step-by-step instructions on How to import class rosters with CSV.
Note: We strongly recommend creating NEW classes each year and archiving old ones instead of reusing the previous year's classes.
If you prefer to have your teachers create their own classes, have them follow these instructions for teachers to create a class.
If their class is comprised of students who have already used Seesaw in previous years, they can add their students via the School Directory - this ensures that students use the same account as last year to log in, that their family members don’t need to reconnect, and that all of their work through the years is visible in their portfolio.
At the beginning of each school year, we require district admin to run a Full Sync in Seesaw to reestablish the connection between Seesaw and Clever/ClassLink. Here’s how to do this:
- Sign into your district admin account at app.seesaw.me.
- Select Roster Sync tab at the top of the District Dashboard.
- Tap Nightly Sync to resume the nightly sync, then tap the down arrow next to 'Run Partial Sync' to reveal an option to Run a Full Sync. This will run a sync of all data being shared.
This Full Sync will create new classes (and archive old ones), create new student accounts, and archive any student accounts that are no longer being shared in your data. Once this first Full Sync is complete, the Nightly Sync will run automatically at 5:30 PM EST/8:30 PM PST.
At the beginning of each school year, we require district or school administrators to run a Full Sync in Seesaw to sync data between Wonde and Seesaw.
If this is your first sync of Wonde data into Seesaw, please review the Using Wonde with Seesaw before syncing any data.
Here is how to do this:
- District Administrators:
- Sign into your district admin account at app.seesaw.me.
- Select Roster Sync tab at the top of the District Dashboard.
- Tap Nightly Sync to resume the nightly sync, then tap the down arrow next to 'Run Partial Sync' to reveal an option to Run a Full Sync. This will run a sync of all data being shared.
- You can choose to sync all schools at once or sync schools individually.
- School Administrators:
- Sign in to your school admin account at app.seesaw.me
- Tap on the Manage Sync button or the Roster Sync Tab
- Tap Nightly Sync to resume the nightly sync, then tap the down arrow next to 'Run Partial Sync' to reveal an option to Run a Full Sync. This will run a sync of all data being shared.
If your school or district will be changing from auto-rostering via Clever or ClassLink to CSV rostering, you can follow these steps.
If your school or district will be changing from Clever auto-rostering to ClassLink auto-rostering or vice versa, you can follow these steps.