Audience: Administrators with School and District subscriptions
Administrator Permissions let schools and districts give custom access to School and District Administrators based on their specific roles and responsibilities. These permissions can be fully enabled or mixed and matched as needed. Starting in Autumn 2025, a new Administrators tab will be available in both the School and District Dashboards to manage these settings.
Note: All current School and District Administrators will automatically have full permissions by default. This setup matches the previous administrator experience.
Seesaw Administrator Permissions
- Base Permissions (all Administrators): Send school and district-wide messages and announcements, create activities, and view the libraries. This permission cannot be removed from any administrator.
- Classroom Insights (most common): Access classes to view, like, and comment on student posts and activities. Access to Engagement Dashboards. SI&I customers can additionally access Learning Insights.
- Curate Library: Add to and manage activities in the School and District libraries.
- Manage Settings: View and adjust School and District Settings.
- Manage Rostering: Add, remove, and edit classes, teachers, students & family members individually or in bulk.
- Manage Administrators: Users can add, remove, and edit other School and District Administrators.
- Audit Messages: Users can view, download, and remove past messages between teachers, students, and families in the district.
Administrator Tab
With the Administrators Tab, you'll have everything to manage Administrator access in your School or District.
- *Add Administrators: Add new administrators to your School or District.
- Edit Permissions: View and edit Administrator permissions in bulk.
- Manage Job Title: An open field to identify an Administrator's job in your school.
- Last Login Date: See when Administrators were last active in Seesaw.
- *Remove Administrators: Remove users that no longer need Admin access in your School or District.
*Previously managed in School and District Settings
- Tap Add Administrator.
- Enter Name, Job Title, and Email.
- Tap appropriate permissions for the user. Pick the permissions that include features they need access to, and we’ll take care of the rest! You can assign multiple permissions or edit their permissions at any time.
- Tap Save & Invite Administrator.
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Confirm by tapping Invite Administrator.
2. Edit the permissions associated with any existing Administrator in School or District.
Please note: All Schools and Districts must have at least one Administrator with the Manage Administrators and Rostering permissions.
1. Tap Account Settings.
2. Tap District Administrator Permissions.
Which packages have access to Administrator Permissions?
Administrator Permissions will be available for School and District Administrators who have purchased Seesaw for Schools, Seesaw Instruction & Insights, and Seesaw LMS packages for their school or district.
Will a District Administrator have the same permissions at the schools within their district?
Yes. District Administrators will inherit their District permissions when viewing school dashboards. You don't need to add a District Administrator to each school dashboard!
For example, if a District Admin is assigned 'Classroom Insights' permissions at the District level, they have access to the analytics dashboards on the District Dashboard; as they navigate to a school dashboard they will access to school level analytics, as well as the ability to view classes and engage with student work!
What permissions do "synced through 3rd Party Rostering" start with?
All new Administrators that are created during Clever/Classlink sync will start "Base Permissions." Additional permissions can be added by an Administrator with Manage Administrators permissions at any time. Existing Admininstrators, even if not previously synched through Clever or Classlink, will have full permissions because they existed prior to August 2025.
Note: Administrators are not created or managed via Wonde, all Admininstrators must be added manually for Wonde rostering schools & districts.
Will the nightly or full sync override Administrators Roles selections?
No, once set, only Administrators with the Manage Admin permission can change other admin permissions.
Are Admin alerted when their permissions change?
Yes, an email is sent to the affected Administrator when permissions are changed.
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