How to invite Family members to your school

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Nothing gets families engaged with the classroom like seeing and hearing what their child is doing at school! Admins can invite student's family members to use Seesaw by following the instructions below.

How to connect families to students in bulk

1. Sign in to your admin account and navigate to your school dashboard.

2. Tap on the ‘Families’ tab.

3. Tap ‘Add or Edit Families in Bulk.'

4. To add new family connections, tap 'Add NEW families.'

5. Fill out the .csv with the family member's email OR mobile number, AND the connected student ID or email. (Note: Inviting via Moble Number is only available in the US and Canada)

Table showing 3 headers Email, Mobile Number, and Connected Student IDs with the correlation informaiton6. Upload the .csv to Seesaw. Once it successfully uploads, families will receive an invitation (via text or email, depending on the data you provided) to view their students’ journals.

How to view families connected by student
  1. Sign in to your admin account and navigate to your school dashboard.
  2. Tap on the ‘Students’ tab.
  3. Tap the ‘... menu’ > ‘Download CSV of Student Accounts’
  4. Open the .csv to view which students have connected family members and find students who are missing family members. You can find this info by looking under the 'Connected Families' header: if there are email addresses and/or phone numbers listed, that student has connected family members; if the tab is blank, no one is connected to that student.

    A table showing the CSV download with one of the headers being Family Members.
Get Families Data and Invite Families

This report is conveniently located in the Admin Toolkit on the school dashboard, providing administrators with a quick and easy way to identify students who do not yet have connected family members.

Administrators can download a CSV file containing family connection information and personalized invitation links for each student in their school. These invitation links can easily be shared with the student's family, making it simple to encourage family participation and engagement!

The CSV also includes helpful student details, such as email addresses, student IDs, and current class assignments, allowing administrators to quickly locate and identify individual students. By sorting the report by ‘Number of Connected Families,’ administrators can easily identify students who may benefit from additional outreach and take proactive steps to strengthen family engagement across their school!

Family members will remain connected to their child’s journal year to year. They only need to connect to their child’s journal once to access all of their child’s journals from any classes they are enrolled in for the duration of their time at your school.

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