Audience: Seesaw Users
Seesaw is excited to be a global platform for every voice. Seesaw offers a tailored experience in dozens of languages to make instruction accessible, engaging, and inclusive for every adult in a student’s life. Available in over 30 languages, Seesaw localization includes right‑to‑left interface functionality and local date and time formats.
Core classroom use cases for language localization include:
Dual‑language/immersion classes Support for newcomers Content‑area scaffolds Family–school communication
How to designate language preferences
Administrators can determine the Seesaw platform language, grade-level terminology, and regional content settings for all teachers, administrators and students. Teachers can set their preferred language in the Profile section of Account Settings. They can also update a student's preferred language. Family members can customize their own preferred language settings as well.
Currently Supported:
- English-US
- English-UK
- English-AU
- English-NZ
- English-IE
- English-CA
- Arabic (العربية)*
- Chinese-Simplified (简体中文)
- Chinese-Traditional (Taiwan)
- Chinese-Traditional (Hong Kong)
- Dutch (Nederlands)
- French (français)
- German (Deutsch)
- Hindi (हिंदी)
- Italian (italiano)
- Icelandic (íslenska)
- Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia)
- Irish
- Japanese (日本語)
- Korean (한국어)
- Malay (Bahasa Melayu)
- Norwegian (norsk)
- Polish (polski)
- Portuguese (português)
- Spanish (español)
- Tamil (தமிழ்)
- Thai (ไทย)
- Turkish (Türkçe)
- Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt)
*These languages support right-to-left interface functionality.