Audience: Seesaw Users
Product Updates for October 15, 2025
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- Seesaw AI Beta:
- AI Hub: Shortcuts to new and existing AI features and features AI Literacy Activities
- Activity Assistant - Convert Resource: Convert an existing resource into a Seesaw activity with autograded questions and multimedia response opportunities
- Upload a PDF, images, Doc, Slides, or an image from Google Drive
- Activity Assistant - Generate Resource: Generate a new Seesaw activity or assessment on any educational topic, learning goal, or standard. Seesaw AI currently generates three types of activities:
- Activity: 10-page activity with topic recap, matching and sorting pages, auto-graded formative assessment questions, open-ended multimedia reflection opportunities, an offline partner activity, and self-reflection poll
- Quiz: 10-page quiz with a mix of multiple choice, true/false, short answer questions, and open-ended multimedia reflection questions
- Reading Passage Activity: Fiction or non-fiction grade-level reading passage with Reading Fluency Assessment and reading comprehension questions
- AI Literacy Lessons: 10+ grade-level appropriate lessons about what AI is and how to use it ethically. More AI Literacy content will be made available throughout October.
- Shortcuts: Homepage, Green Add Button, and Create Activity in Resource Library now feature shortcuts to the Generate Activity flow.
Product Updates for September 30, 2025
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- Administrator Permissions: Granular permissions designed to provide customized access for School and District Administrators with varying needs and responsibilities. Available for all paid subscription types.
- Overall grade: We will now support assignment-based grading by adding an overall grade (0-100%) to an entire activity. Overall grades will take an average of auto-scored formative assessments and be visible in the Activities Tab of Gradebook.
- OneRoster Compatible CSV export: Admins will be able to export their Seesaw grades in a CSV that aligns to OneRoster Interoperability Standards. This OneRoster-compatible CSV can be shared with Student Information Systems to facilitate grade passback between Seesaw and other SIS vendors.
- My Library: We have released improvements to the Search functionality in My Library to help customers find exact title matches.
Product Updates for September 17, 2025
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- Class Reordering: After clicking on my classes from the homepage, teachers can now select 'reorder classes" to control the order of the classes in their navigation
Product Updates for August 20, 2025
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- Self-serve Custom Standards - Seesaw Instruction & Insights and Seesaw LMS administrators are now able to upload their own custom standard sets.
- This feature is designed to give School and District administrators the ability to upload and manage their district or school's unique Standards directly into Seesaw.
Product Updates for August 13, 2025
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- Creative Tools - Updated Student Activity Flow
- Students will be able to step through activities with Next/Previous buttons
- Students will be alerted if they missed pages and/or questions in the activity
- New Teacher Resources homepage
- We've updated the 'Teacher Resources' at the bottom of the homepage. These links will help teachers find all the resources they need, including links to the Learning Hub, Timely Topics, Getting Started, and Community & Events.
Product Updates for July 25, 2025
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- Creative Tools - The AI Features section of the district settings now has additional setting options:
- Read-with-Me Reading Tool
- Reading Fluency Assessment
- My Library: Teachers can now filter activities by language in My Library.
Product Updates for July 16, 2025
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- Seesaw Library: A new search index (V3) will improve handling of plurals, stemming, possessives/contractions,and field weighting to allow for boosting of selected content higher in search results.
Product Updates for July 9, 2025
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- New navigation: Updated navigation for teachers and administrators to make Seesaw easier to use!
- Seesaw Library: The Seesaw Library has new improvements, including improved search quality, surfacing activities in search results, and the ability to filter by language.
- New regional libraries are now available for customers in the Middle East, Latin America, Texas, and Florida.
Product Updates for June 25, 2025
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- Up-to-date Standards: 20 Standard sets were updated with revised standards. Users will see a banner upon login to notify them of the new standards. Previously tagged and graded standards that have since been archived will persist and be flagged with an out-of-date symbol.
Product Updates for June 11, 2025
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- AI Features section in District Settings: There is a new AI feature section in the District Settings to support finer control of Seesaw's AI features.
Product Updates for June 4, 2025
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- Seesaw in Spanish, French & Portuguese: Seesaw is now available in Spanish, French, and Portuguese for all teachers, students, admins, and families. With this launch, we are also adding a few additional changes:
- Language Settings: Teachers, admins and families can set their preferred language in their Account Settings. Perferred languages for students can be modified by their teacher via Class Settings. Admins can also set the default language for their school via Regional Settings.
- New Education Levels: now available for Mexico, Canada, and Brazil
- Language Tagging and Filtering for Activities
- Activities created in My Library will now automatically be tagged with their language. Teachers can adjust languages for activities via the Create/Edit Activity flow.
Product Updates for May 15, 2025
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- Creative Tools: Users can now upload HEIC images on iOS and the web
Product Updates for May 1, 2025
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- Creative Tools: Snapping and Alignment Indicators for Teachers. Objects on the Creative Canvas will snap into place to align with the top, bottom, left, right, and center of other objects and the workspace. Lines will appear as guides while dragging.
Product Updates for April 23, 2025
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- Creative Tools: New 'Generate Quiz' button to the activity creation screen. This is a shortcut directly to the AI-generated questions
Product Updates for April 16, 2025
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- Recurring Activities: Teachers are now able to schedule a repeating activity directly from the assign flow. Teachers can schedule daily, weekly, or monthly activity to occur throughout the course of a school year.
- Standards: We have expanded our existing Standards & Grading settings to now include a 'Let Schools Decide' option for more flexibility
Product Updates for April 9, 2025
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- Teachers with Seesaw Instruction & Insights can now search for Short Answer and Open-Ended question types using Question Assistant
Product Updates for April 2, 2025
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- Creative Tools: Fixed sporadic issues with SMARTboards impacting dragging and drawing with pens.
Product Updates for March 20, 2025
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- Creative Tools: Descriptive Audio for Voice - Users can now add descriptive audio tracks that describe the visuals onscreen
- Journal Posts: Bigger/Mixed Media Journal Posts - Allows teachers to upload different types of media (photos, videos and audio) in one post. Also increased upload limits for paid users to 20 items at a time.
- New Language Options for Family Invites and Student Sign-In PDFs
- Family Invites: English-UK, English-AU, English-NZ
- Student Sign-In PDF: English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Russian, Korean, Vietnamese, and Somali
Product Updates for March 12, 2025
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- Updated Sign-in Screen: We've refreshed our sign-in screen to ensure that all login methods are easily accessible across devices and screen sizes for students and teachers
Product Updates for February 26, 2025
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- Creative Tools - New Flexcards: Dice, 10 Frames, Dominoes, 3D Sharpes, Subitizing, and Reading Comprehension Questions
- Creative Tools - Reading Fluency Assessment - Reporting Improvements, Edit Transcriptions, Commonly Missed Words Modules
Product Updates for February 19, 2025
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- District Wide Settings - Family Syncing: District admin can now manage Family Syncing (Clever or ClassLink) from their District Wide Settings
- Journal Tools - Save Current Page: In the 3 dots menu for a post, users now can Save Current Page or Save Entire Post
Product Updates for February 5, 2025
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- Opt-In to New Navigation Layout Beta - Any teacher account can opt-in to the new navigation layout beta in Account Settings
- 3rd Party Rostering (districts) - The Admin can now enable the option for teachers to have the ability to archive or restore 3rd party-created classes
Product Updates for January 29, 2025
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- Filter Classes by School or Grade Level in Messages - When selecting classes to message, teachers and administrators can now filter classes by school and/or grade level making it easier to send a school announcement or grade level announcement.
Product Updates for January 22, 2025
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- Creative Tools - Multiselect Functionality: Enhancements to improve teacher efficiencies like multi-select, bulk style, color, lock/unlock, order, and alignment
Product Updates for January 8, 2025
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- Creative Tools - Activity Templates: New simple reflection and assessment templates into the custom activity creation flow
- Creative Tools - Easier Edits for Teacher-Locked Objects: Teachers can now edit the properties (color, order, link, voice, etc) on objects (photos, labels, shapes, etc) they've locked for students without having to unlock them first. Teacher-locked objects remain uneditable by students
- School selection is now required for all Seesaw Starter (free) accounts.