How to Translate Activities and Lessons

 Audience: Teachers

Teachers have the ability to translate Activities and Lessons into over 100 languages. Seesaw’s built-in translation uses AI to provide quick translations, while also allowing teachers to adjust activities as needed. This supports multilingual learners, dual-language classrooms, and language instruction, all without having to recreate activities or lose the original teaching intent.

This feature is included with AI subscription packages.

Translation overview

Teachers can translate Lessons (all of the Activities within that lesson), entire individual activities at once, or translate only specific text in an Activity (such as instructions) while keeping the rest of the content in the primary language of instruction.

Translations apply only to text elements within an activity. Audio and video content are not translated.

How to translate an entire Lesson

1. From My Library or Explore Libraries, select a Lesson.
2. Tap Translate.
   
3. Select a language from the dropdown menu and click Save.
4. If there is audio in the original Activity, teachers have the option to choose either:
   1. keep audio (audio is not translated)
   2. remove audio
5. Saving creates a translated copy of the original Lesson.

How to translate an entire Activity

1. From My Library or Explore Libraries, select an Activity.
2. In the lower right corner, tap Translate.
   
3. Select a language from the dropdown menu and tap Save.
4. If there is audio in the original Activity, teachers have the option to choose either:
   1. keep audio (audio is not translated)
   2. remove audio
5. Saving creates a translated copy of the original Activity.

How to translate part of an Activity

1. In the Creative Canvas, click on the 3 dots menu [...]
2. Tap Translate Text and select a language from the dropdown menu.