Product Updates for September 12, 2024
Available On All Platforms
Please update iOS and Android devices to 10.43 for these changes.
- Sitewide Standards - A number of UX improvements including better grouping of standard set names when tagging/grading standards
- Available for: SI&I Customers
Product Updates for September 5, 2024
Available On All Platforms
Please update iOS and Android devices to 10.42 for these changes.
- Seesaw-made Flexcard Library: In the Shapes tool, browse a Library of Seesaw-made Flexcards relevant for K-5 math and ELA instruction, like Numbers 1-20, Math Operators, Heads/Tails Coin, Dice, ABCs, Vowels, Consonantes and Question Words.
Available for: Teachers and students with SI&I
Product Updates for August 27, 2024
Available on All Platforms
Please update iOS and Android devices to 10.41 for these changes.
- Creative Tools - Draw & Record and voice record will pause when audio or video while recorded. Previously, playing audio or video was disabled when recording
- LTI (Canvas/Schoology) - Canvas/Schoology for iOS is available for all customers who use LTI Integrations.
Available On All Platforms
Please update iOS and Android devices to 10.40 for these changes.
- Creative Tools - Add 45 second and 90 second time limit options for Voice Frame, Video Frame, and Reading Fluency Assessment.
- Seesaw UK - British Language Support - Automatically serve British English support to customers who have their device settings to British English. Localized spelling and grammar, including date/time formats and education level sets.
Product Updates for August 13, 2024
Available on All Platforms
Please update iOS and Android devices to 10.39 for these changes.
- User Customization Updates: Updated/New Class Icons, Themes, Folder Colors, and Studnet Profile Icons in the journal. Introducing 7 new class icons for teachers to choose from: Bean, Books, Drama, ELA, Microscope, Rocket, and Sun
- Available for: All Seesaw Users
Product Updates for August 5, 2024
Available on All Platforms
Please update iOS and Android devices to 10.38 for these changes.
Creative Tools:
- Reading Fluency Assessment: Allows teachers to quickly understand student progress on literacy skills by collecting and automatically analyzing student reading samples and providing actionable reporting. Reading Fluency Assessment is available in English and Spanish. Assessments are featured in our Early Literacy curriculum package, and custom passages can be added by customers
- Available for: SI&I Customers
- Short Answer Assessment Questions: Allows teachers to collect short text responses from students, auto-grade student responses, and aggregate response data in reporting.
- Available for: SI&I Customers
- Open Ended Assessment Questions: Allows teachers to collect longer-form open-text responses from students, manually grade responses with a quicker grading workflow, and aggregate response data in reporting.
- Available for: SI&I Customers
- Read-with-Me: Support emerging readers or multilingual learners with passages that can be read aloud to them with word-by-word highlighting. This literacy and language acquisition scaffolding tool supports students in making powerful connections between spoken and written words.
- Available for: SI&I Customers
- Flexcard: Flexcard allows teachers to offer more customizability and variability in activities to meet the unique needs of students. Flexcards can contain text, images, and voice or a combination on each side, with up to 30 sides. Like a flashcard, but Seesaw-fied!
- Available for: SI&I Customers
Product Updates for July 31, 2024
Available On All Platforms
Please update iOS and Android devices to 10.37 for these changes.
- Creative Tools: Added Spanish translations for the interface when recording
Product Updates for July 25, 2024
Available on All Platforms
Please update iOS and Android devices to 10.36 for these changes.
- Okta SSO for Web and iOS - Adds another trusted SSO provider to the Seesaw experience
- Available for: Paid Customers (Teachers, Admins, Students)
- Standards - Update to Search: Ability to search for Standards by code and description
- Available for: Paid customers (Teachers & Admin)
Available On All Platforms
Please update iOS and Android devices to 10.35 for these changes.
- Creative Canvas - Teachers can now implement Focus Mode to provide a minimal distraction experience for students, helping them avoid being overwhelmed with tools
- Available for: SI&I customers
Product Updates for July 9, 2024
Available on All Platforms
- Creative Tools - The new popup for editing frames allows users to specify a time limit for recording audio, video, and screen recordings
- Subscription/product packaging information is now displayed for district, school admins and teachers
Product Updates for July 2, 2024
Available on All Platforms
- Change the icon for recording audio from a speaker to a microphone and add:recordvoice: shortcut for activity instructions
- Available for: All users
- District admin can manage their LTI Integrations from the District dashboard. Allows admin a timely self-service manner for quickly setting up their preferred LTI Integration (Schoology/Canvas)
- Available for: Applicable SI&I and S4S* Customers
Product Updates for June 26, 2024
Available On All Platforms
Please update iOS and Android devices to 10.32 for these changes.
Available to all Seesaw for Schools customers:
- Sitewide Standards - Allows admin to locate their state/region standard set. This saves teachers time and makes all places within Seesaw easier to use and more personalized.
- Engagement dashboard - New and improved analytics tab for administrators to view usage data at the school or district level (District level is only available for Seesaw Instruction & Insights customers)
- These dashboards provide vital insights into key Seesaw product usage from students, teachers and families.Dashboard metrics include:
- User Logins for teachers, students, and families
- Student Posts by Month, High-Impact Students Posts with Video/Voice and Family Visits
- Detailed usage stats for individual schools, classes and teachers
- Highlighted student post examples
- Activities Taught
- These dashboards provide vital insights into key Seesaw product usage from students, teachers and families.Dashboard metrics include:
Available to Seesaw Instruction & Insights customers:
Learning Insights dashboard - Allows administrators to view Standards analytics at the district level. These dashboards provide vital insights into student learning and growth within Seesaw.Dashboard metrics include:
- Standards Usage: tagged posts, graded posts, posts graded 3+
- Standards-aligned student work highlights
- Standards Performance
- Standards Performance by School
- Standards Performance by Subject
Product Updates for June 12, 2024
Available On Web Browsers
- The Roster Sync Pause tool is available for all Clever/ClassLink syncing District Admin in the District Wide Settings
- Existing users who are invited to be a School Admin will now be directed to the School Dashboard rather than the teacher account when accepting the invitation
Product Updates for June 6, 2024
Available On All Platforms
Please update iOS and Android devices to 10.29 for these changes.
- Fixed issue where localized date format was not respected in Messages
Product Updates for May 22, 2024
Available On All Platforms
Please update iOS and Android devices to 10.27 for these changes.
- Fixed issue where Messages with attachments were unable to be downloaded
Product Updates for May 16, 2024
Available On Web Browsers
- The District Admin list has been removed from District Dashboard and is now housed in District-Wide Settings
- When Clever/ClassLink sync is paused, the sync status banner will reflect that status
- Long school names will no longer overlap the gear icon on the School Dashboard
Product Updates for April 17, 2024
Available On All Platforms
Please update iOS and Android devices to 10.22 for these changes.
- Students are now unable to edit, resize, or reposition frames on the Creative Canvas that are created by the teacher.
- Available for: All S4S and SI&I customers
Product Updates for March 26, 2024
Available On All Platforms
Please update iOS and Android devices to 10.19 for these changes.
- Updated instruction on frames (e.g "Click to take a photo" is now "Take a photo")
- Available for: All S4S and SI&I customers
Product Updates for March 21, 2024
Available On All Platforms
Please update iOS and Android devices to 10.18 for these changes.
- Ability to change colors of drop zones for Drag & Drop Formative Assessment questions: This allows teachers the ability to customize their formative assessments to meet individual needs
- Available for: All S4S and SI&I customers
Product Updates for March 14, 2024
Available On All Platforms
Please update iOS and Android devices to 10.17 for these changes.
- Assign Instructional Sequences in the Seesaw Library: Teachers will save time by having the ability to assign any lesson in the Seesaw Library as a group of activities or individually
- Available for: All S4S and SI&I customers
Product Updates for March 7, 2024
Available On All Platforms
Please update iOS and Android devices to 10.16 for these changes.
- We've extended the Disable Preview Link to apply to links sent in text form via Messages.
- Why this matters: Helps admin who are concerned about possible inappropriate student behaviors.
- Available for: All S4S and SI&I customers
Product Updates for February 27, 2024
Available On All Platforms
Please update iOS and Android devices to 10.15 for these changes.
- Creative Tools: Improvements to color contrast for text labels and Frames using the solid fill style setting. Now when you select a light colored solid fill background, we’ll adjust the text to black automatically, instead of using a nearly unreadable white text.
- Creative Tools: Add Voice to Voice and Student Voice Frames: You can now add voice to a Voice or Student Choice Frame. When students record their voice on the Frame, the voice instructions will be replaced with their recording.
Product Updates for February 20, 2024
Available On All Platforms
Please update iOS and Android devices to 10.14 for these changes.
- Disable Link Previews Setting: New school and district settings to disable generating link previews in creative tools and link message attachments by students. This setting is available to all S4S and SI&I customers.
- Fixed 400 errors shown to school admins without classes when presenting to class or previewing as a student on a Note template.
- Fixed app crash issue when tapping on Community Contributor’s name from activity in collection.
Product Updates for February 15, 2024
Available On All Platforms
Please update iOS and Android devices to 10.13 for these changes.
- Creative Tools: Add thousands cube into the Shapes tool!
- Creative Tools: Fix bug where Formative Assessment Drag & Drop dropzones would sometimes disappear after tapping the undo button or exiting Preview as a Student.
- Creative Tools: Improvements to copy/pasting content with images or images with voice recordings or links between activities or across pages.
- Fixed bug where the unapproved posts banner would still show after bulk approval.
- Fixed error when posting to journal from Present to Class that impacted activities where the example and template have a different number of pages. Present mode from the Activities Tab should now open the activity template directly and posting to the journal will work correctly. Note: To view the example or instructions from Present to Class mode, teachers can click on View Instructions.
Product Updates for February 8, 2024
Available On All Platforms
Please update iOS and Android devices to 10.12 for these changes.
- Messages: Fixed edge case issue where toggling between the “reply privately” experience in different announcement threads adds the previous teacher to the current private reply.
- Creative Tools: Fix bug where the contents of the [...] menu would go offscreen on phone-sized screens.
Product Updates for February 1, 2024
Available On All Platforms
Please update iOS and Android devices to 10.11 for these changes.
- Fix minor bugs and UI issues in recently released features: Post from Present to Class, Bulk Download Messages and Family Digest Notifications.
Product Updates for January 25, 2024
Available On All PlatformsPlease update iOS and Android devices to 10.10 for these changes.
- Draw/Erase on iOS 17: Performance improvements for drawing and erasing on iOS 17 to prevent the app from freezing or crashing.
- Autosave Post Recovery on iOS 17: Fix bug where an autosave post recovery for a post with a lot of draw/erase could get the app stuck in a crashing loop.
- Family Invites: Fixed an issue where autocomplete on the Edge browser was enabled on the Family Invite page, resulting in some auto-filled emails and accidental family invites. Autocomplete is now turned off on the Family Invites page.
- Family Digest Notification: Fixed issue that caused inaccurate messaging counts for family daily digest notifications in some cases (ex. shows 1 unread message if a family member sent a message).
- Fix minor bugs and UI issues in the recently released Bulk Download Messages feature.
Product Updates for January 18, 2024
Available On All Platforms
Please update iOS and Android devices to 10.9 for these changes.
- Microsoft SSO is available for all customers on web, iOS and Android.
- District Settings - Admin Controls: when District Admin log in, they will now see an ‘Authentication and Security’ section in the District Wide Settings modal. Within that section they will have the option to:
- Manage District Administrators: Add or remove district administrators.
- Manage Trusted Domains: Add or remove trusted domains for all schools in a district. Decide if school admins can manage trusted domains for their schools
- Fixed bug in My Library where activities were not being sorted by recent date.
- Minor Creative Tools bug fixes.
- Voice on Web: Fix bug where there would be a ‘click’ sound at the start of voice recordings.
- Frames: Allow copy/paste of Frames between different activities.
- Fix minor bugs and UI issues in recently released features: Download Messages and Post from Present to Class.
Product Updates for January 11, 2024
Available On All Platforms
Available On All Platforms
Please update iOS and Android devices to 10.8 for these changes.
- Updated bad words filter for links in Messages to check for bad words within all parts of a URL.
- Bulk Download Messages (Admins): Support admin bulk downloads for message threads for a recipient or class.
- Instructional Onboarding Updates: Work on structural improvements to core teacher onboarding flows targeting teachers who haven’t yet started using Seesaw for instruction.
- Show green check and allow posting to journal from Present to Class mode.
- In-Product Messaging: Support integration with third-party tool (Chameleon) which will support targetable product tours and walkthroughs for new and returning teachers.
- Show Messages Count in Family Daily Digest Email/Push: For families with “Once per Day” email/push notification setting selected, include the messages count in the Daily Digest email/push instead of sending one email/push for every message.