How to use the School Dashboard

null Audience: Administrators with School and District subscriptions

Seesaw’s School Dashboard gives you insight into your school and allows Administrators to centrally manage all of the classes, teachers, and students using Seesaw at your school. Each tab on the dashboard will allow you to manage different things - classes, teachers, students, standards, and analytics. Please find more information about each tab below!

The Overview Tab

This is where you will find your school’s weekly stats, recently added posts, and your Admin Toolbox.
Seesaw school dashboard for example school Sunny Oak School highlighting the Overview Tab on the far left.
 


School Setup Checklist: A one-stop shop for getting your school launched for the new school year! Add teachers with existing Seesaw accounts, set up your CSV roster, and connect students to their family members.


Engagement Stats: Quickly understand what is happening in your school each week. See the number of student posts and teacher, student, and family logins. 
Engagement dashboard example showing 188 Student Posts, 8 Teachers Logged In, 32 Students Logged in, and 27 Families logged in.
 

  • Student Posts: Student posts include responses to activities and posts added by teachers or students. One student responding to 3 activities counts as 3. 
  • Teachers Logged In: The number of unique teachers who have logged in. One teacher logging in 4 times counts as 1. 
  • Students Logged In: The number of unique students who have logged in. One student logging in 4 times counts as 1. 
  • Family Logged In: The number of unique family members who have logged in. One family member logging in 4 times counts as 1. 

Recently Added: See new student work in your school. You can even leave a like or comment to engage with the students at your school!

Admin Tools: We’ve made it easy to find all of the frequently used Admin Tools in one spot. Learn more here!
Import Class Rosters, Notifications and Admin Tools list that are visable on the right side of the Admin dashboard.

 

The Classes Tab

The Classes tab gives you a quick view of all your active classes.
Classes Tab for Sunny Oak School. The Classes Tab is the second tab, listed to the right of the Overview Tab.
 

From this tab, you can:

  • Search for a class you would like to view. Just type the Class name into the search bar and click on the Class Name to view as an Admin. 
  • Create a new class by tapping on the Add Individual Class button, or use 'Add or Edit Classes in Bulk' to create many classes at once.
    • If you’re creating more than just a single class, we suggest you use the 'Add or Edit Classes in Bulk' option.
  • Edit a class. Add or remove teachers or students, manage Class Settings, or archive the class!
    • Hover on the name and tap on the [...] option on the right-hand side.
      Note: It is not possible to merge classes at this time. If students have posts in two separate classes, you will need to merge the student accounts together so that students will maintain access to all of their items through the Past Work tool. 
       
  • View your archived classes by tapping 'Show Archived Classes'. 
  • You can Download a CSV of Active Classes by tapping on the [...] next to the Show Archived Classes option.
The Teachers Tab

The Teachers tab will show you all of the teacher accounts connected to your school.

Sunny Oak School example dashboard highlighting the Teacher tab, to the right of the classes Tab that lists all teachers, the name of their classes and their last sign in date.

From this tab, you can:

Note: Teachers can now be connected to more than one dashboard at a time. If you have teachers who work at multiple schools that are using Seesaw for Schools, please read through this article. 

The Students Tab

The Students Tab will show you all of the student accounts connected to your school. 

Sunn Oak School example dashboard highlighting the Student Tab which shows Student Name, number of Posts added in the last 7 days, number of Family visits in the last month and number of Connected Family Members.

From this tab, you can:

  • Create a new student account.
  • Use 'Add or Edit Students in Bulk' to create/update many student accounts at once. 
  • Search for a student by name or Student ID.
  • Tap [...] > Edit Student to edit a student’s account.
    • You can change their name, profile photo, student ID, classes they are enrolled in, and more!
       
  • Download a student's journal.
  • View archived student accounts.
    • You may need to use this tool to merge student accounts or reactivate a student's account. 
  • Download a CSV of your student accounts.
    • This CSV Export will give you a list of all students (active and archived) in your school.
    • It will display student names, student IDs, email addresses, archive statuses, number of connected family members, and which active classes they are enrolled in. 
The Families Tab

The Families tab will show you all of the family members connected to the students at your school.

Sunny Oak School example highlighting the Families Tab which shows the Family Member name and name of their connected students.

From this tab, you can:

The Engagement Analytics Tab
Engagement analytics allow admins to better understand teacher, student, and family Seesaw usage. At the school level, this includes data like teacher and student platform activity, number of activities assigned, family visits/interactions, highlighted student posts, and much more!
The Learning Insights Analytics Tab 
Learning Insights provides data on student progress at the district, school, and subject area level, and provides the tools to monitor progress and make data-driven decisions related to instruction. 

 
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