Seesaw Product Updates 2026

Audience: Seesaw Users

Product Updates for 19 May 2026

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• Creative Tools - Generate Activity: Convert Resource - The Convert Resource flow for the AI Activity Generator now includes an Add Instructions step, which gives teachers more control of the generated activity

Product Updates for 5 May 2026

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• Creative Tools - Fonts and Styles for Languages: We added new fonts to support various languages. Note that there may be some variation in available styles for each language. 

Product Updates for 21 April 2026

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• Creative Tools - SVG Support - Creative tools now support uploading SVG images

Product Updates for 7 April 2026

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• Creative Tools - Question Widget Font Size - Teachers can now adjust the font size for multiple choice, true/false, and poll question widgets

Product Updates for 31 March 2026

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• Seesaw AI Subscriptions customers:
  • AI Activity Assistant - More responsive Activity Generation prompting - Teacher prompting for activity generation has been improved to be more responsive to specific instructions (e.g. number of pages, types of questions)
  • AI Messages Assistant - Released the Challenging Behaviour prompt to all Message types and conversation-specific prompt improvements
• Platform Localisation:
  • We've launched 11 additional platform languages. These include Chinese - Simplified, Chinese - Traditional, Hindi, Indonesian, Irish, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Tamil, Thai, and Vietnamese

Product Updates for 24 March 2026

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• Seesaw AI Subscriptions customers:
  • AI-Generated YouTube Activities - Teachers will be able to generate an activity including any educational YouTube video, auto-graded assessment questions, and multimodal reflection opportunities
  • Image Search & Images in AI-Generated Activities - Teachers can search Seesaw's image library for images to add to activities. Relevant images from the library will also automatically be added to AI-generated activities
• Creative Tools:
  • Teacher Tools Discovery - Updated the organisation of the tools menu for teachers when editing activities
  • Colour Picker - A new colour picker that allows users to use an eyedropper to select any colour, quickly access recently-used colours, and have access to black and white

Product Updates for 17 March 2026

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• AI-Translate and Activity & Creative Tools: Chinese (Traditional) and Chinese (Simplified) are now options for translating activities and objects in the Creative Tools.
• Seesaw <> Little Thinking Minds Integration: Teachers who have access to Seesaw and Little Thinking Minds products will now see them displayed in the Homepage and Seesaw Library

Product Updates for 13 March 2026

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• YouTube Search and Player for Education: Teachers will be able to embed YouTube videos directly into Seesaw with a distraction-free player for students. This feature is available for Seesaw Instruction & Insights and Seesaw AI customers
  • Seesaw for Schools & Seesaw LMS customers: Teachers are now able to search for YouTube videos directly from Seesaw while creating activities. Students will continue to see the 'Link Out' experience for YouTube videos.

Product Updates for 24 February 2026

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• Creative Tools - Updated clones so that they can now be deleted, moved, and rotated, but not resized

Product Updates for 19 February 2026

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• Bulk delete & bulk organise activities into collections - Users can now select multiple activities in the library to delete them in bulk or add them to a collection 

Product Updates for 11 February 2026

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• Focus Mode "Apply to All Existing Pages" - Ability to copy the Focus Mode setting to all pages in an activity
• Creative Tools: Added the ability to change the playback speed for a video

Product Updates for 4 February 2026

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• Creative Tools: Added the ability to set 'themes' for pages in creative tools. Within the background tool, users can change the theme, which sets the background, font, and font style. 

Product Updates for 28 January 2026

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• Lesson Translation: Users are now able to translate all activities in the Seesaw Library Lessons into over one hundred different languages. 
• Spanish Early Literacy: Customers are now able to purchase Spanish Early Literacy as a standalone curriculum add-on. This includes over 180 translated and transadapted PK-K lessons to support essential Spanish early literacy skill development 

Product Updates for 23 January 2026

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• Add a Standard to the Generate Activity Flow: Users will be able to add a Standard from any of their available standard sets to inform the activity generation

Product Updates for 16 January 2026

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• iOS Dynamic Type: Seesaw now respects iOS's system-wide larger text accessibility setting, and our app is optimised for text sizes up to the seventh notch
• AI Reading Fluency: Seesaw Instruction & Insights and Seesaw AI users can create reading fluency passages with accompanying reading comprehension questions. Users can generate reading fluency activities from a prompt, an existing uploaded passage, or from their own custom passage
• Activity Translation: Users can now translate entire activities and text within activities to dozens of different languages. 

Product Updates for 7 January 2026

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• Seesaw in Arabic - Seesaw’s platform is now completely localised to Modern Standard Arabic for all students, teachers, admins, and families. This includes shifting Seesaw’s navigation to a right-to-left direction.
• Text Direction Setting on Creative Canvas: A new setting within the Creative Canvas that allows teachers and students to control text direction (left-to-right and right-to-left) when typing.