Don’t fall in love if you don’t have a whole school subscription
I LOVED seesaw and what it could do to enhance learning. A fellow teacher and I are the only two on campus who use it but were in the process of convincing the whole school to adopt it. Recently Seesaw made an update that limited my account’s ability to grade assignment. During the update I also lost 5 months of grades… with report cards due next week. I paid just under $200 out of my own pocket because I believed in the value. I’ve been told that the platform can’t handle both the individual grading feature (what I used) and the update so that school and district accounts can have streamlined assessments. I find that hard to believe that with all that technology can do these days… they are able to section my type of account off and disable features but school/district accounts have this new assessment feature. Seems like it wouldn’t be too much work to allow skills grading to exist in the individual accounts.
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Seems like yet another app designed to replace actual face to face conversation, in the name of 'productivity', 'ease of use' etc. It's strange how the human race managed without these people distancing apps before but now deems them to be 'necessary'. I have it because I was asked to get it by the school, but if it was my choice I wouldn't go anywhere near one of these dehumanising apps. I guess my years as a teacher, and knowledge of my own kids' needs will no doubt be disputed by the developers in an attempt to convince me of the usefulness of their app, and I'm sure they mean well, but it seems to me that many apps like this are like a ship of theseus model re. replacement of genuine human interaction. Anyway, apps OK, but would prefer just my kids info rather than tons of posts of other kids in different classes etc. Don't know if that's the apps fault or the school's but either way, just unnecessary extra info to load the brain with I guess. Modern life.
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I really don’t like this app
As an older parent I struggle a with this app, amongst other things it regularly logs me out.
It’s ok to see a few pics and a bit of the kids work but as a platform to deliver homework, messages to parents etc I find it really buggy, difficult to use which means I miss lots
I would much prefer that rather than struggling to gather info from seesaw, things like homework was physically given to children to bring home and complete and important info for parents was delivered in a more traditional and simpler way. I think it would also be better for the kids.
Additionally, knowing it’s been hacked in the past, how easy it is to log in when I can’t find my password, I don’t really trust it as secure.
It’s ok to see a few pics and a bit of the kids work but as a platform to deliver homework, messages to parents etc I find it really buggy, difficult to use which means I miss lots
I would much prefer that rather than struggling to gather info from seesaw, things like homework was physically given to children to bring home and complete and important info for parents was delivered in a more traditional and simpler way. I think it would also be better for the kids.
Additionally, knowing it’s been hacked in the past, how easy it is to log in when I can’t find my password, I don’t really trust it as secure.
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Hard to Navigate as Parent
I am a parent using Seesaw for my daughter in Pre-K. Her teacher uses it for communication and photo sharing. I have notifications set-up and yet under the notifications tab in the app there is one thing; an old phot post from her teacher that was sent to everyone. I get notification alerts, but have to guess which section to look in. The only way I know what kind of info I am looking for, for sure is by looking at my email becuase or gives me a preview. I tried to look under help topics on the Seesaw website to see if I am doing something wrong, but I can only find trouble shooting info for Seesaw web-based, not the app. The only app info I find is how to how to download it. I like that I can get photos and can easily contact her teacher if needed. That’s pretty much all I like.
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Response from developer
Oh no! We sincerely apologize for the troubles you've had with the app. We'd be happy to look into this for you. Please contact us at https://help.seesaw.me/hc/en-us/requests/new. Thank you! - Seesaw Support
Bad UI
I can’t reach the bottom icons for comments. It is hindered by the bottom bar for home, journals, notification. How can you not see this if you actually test this. This is an issue with the bottom most journal entry. I have an iPhone 15.
Some updates have made the perfect app to less than perfect
I love seesaw. I have been using it almost 4 years now. But some of it’s recent updates I don’t approve of ‘sadly’ because I still believe it’s a great accompaniment to schooling.
When assigning activities, the option to lock the size/resizing fonts has been discontinued. My kids are ever mistakenly changing the fonts when moving it into place.
Also, when writing with their fingers on the screen using their tablets, the writing isn’t true to what was written, the lines in each letter would be broken tremendously, sometimes the letter would be unrecognizable.
But thank you for giving us seesaw, it has helped us greatly.
When assigning activities, the option to lock the size/resizing fonts has been discontinued. My kids are ever mistakenly changing the fonts when moving it into place.
Also, when writing with their fingers on the screen using their tablets, the writing isn’t true to what was written, the lines in each letter would be broken tremendously, sometimes the letter would be unrecognizable.
But thank you for giving us seesaw, it has helped us greatly.
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Response from developer
Hi there! We’re happy to hear that you enjoy using Seesaw, and we're sorry to hear about the difficulty you've had with writing and fonts. We'd be glad to take a look into it with you. You can get in touch with us by submitting a request at https://help.seesaw.me/hc/en-us/requests/new. Thanks! -- Seesaw Support
Good app overall but requires a bug fix
When you watch a video and it gets to the end, and try to play it a second time and put into landscape mode (by turning the iPhone), it does not correctly go into landscape mode. Video does not go to full screen mode on rotation, and the full screen button won’t work either. In fact the video gets smaller, with white borders around the video. This has been an issue for a long time. Please correct this issue. Thanks.
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Average app
Seesaw is a basic app, not especially easy to use. Needs more functionality built in - remove previous years, archive journals, clear log ins. It is okay but a long way from great.
Frustrating
This app has had a flurry of updates lately and all that seems to have happened is the logo and colours have been changed. What a waste of time! How about fixing the fundamental usage issues that all the other reviews mention? Personally the one thing I’d like to see improved is the viewing of my child’s work. Have you tested the app on a phone? I have to zoom in to be able to read anything (if the image is high enough resolution) and then pan round to see it all like looking through a tiny hole while the rest of the screen is empty. Turning my phone to landscape actually makes the issue even worse somehow by embedding the tiny viewing hole into an unnecessary box.
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Seesaw
This app is horrible, it would let my friends and me post our work for no reason. Don’t get this for your class or for you children. It deletes things with out your permission do not recommend
