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Not user friendly.
Seesaw is a great program. There is nothing can replace it as there are tons of options for teachers and student to interact and show learning. However I find that the program is not user friendly. As a teacher I wish there was a way to message my students. Instead of having the option to send a message I have to go into post student work then select note then the green check a couple of times then select the student that I want it to go to. It seems like there should be an easier way. That’s just one example of how the functionality could be much better. My students are submitting things to me by accident all the time because it is clearly marked how to save without sending.Show lessMrs. Saxophone
Awful
This app would be ok if you had just one child at school using it but when you have more than one the app’s inability to let you have both logged on at the same time is really annoying especially when it works on the family app, only you need to log in to the class app to upload their completed work so what is the point of the other app? I’d like an easier way of logging in than needing to keep the piece of paper first issued with the codes on. Also there is no date stamp on work uploaded by teachers so you can’t tell how old it is. I find the process of deleting photos more difficult than it should be too. I have no issues with children doing homework and am generally ok with technology but as a parent I’m using this begrudgingly because the school have forced it on us.Show lessparent lrb
Seesaw deeply flawed
The application creates workflow for children and educators that allows parents observe. Assignments are created in app, and children are expected to create PowerPoint like documents for each assignment ( which is tedious and pointless for many subjects ).
The app freezes frequently when children try to save their work ( small children will become tired of this quickly). Sometimes homework saves and sometimes it does not. Every so often it only saves some of the work.
Assignments are handed out as todo, which never time out ( any extra or optional work just continues to pile up ).
I am amazed at all of the positive reviews for this app, because I just don’t see how anyone would give a 5 star review to app that fails to work as frequently as this app does.Show lessIAMKrow
Buggy and Unreliable
Our school uses Seesaw for managing remote school work. However we (techie adult included) are having a hard time submitting homework. I get “Error. Item not found.” Seriously, couldn’t you catch these errors and handle them gracefully for grade school kids? It had come to a point where I needed to help my son redo his hard work because we couldn’t submit and had to redo the work. Couldn’t you at least save the work locally (on device) so we can recover previous work? The most frequent issue is that my son finished all his art work and then he cannot record audio (pause button is showing instead of microphone) and again he’s stuck and we have to redo the work. Such a frustrating and unreliable app. And it’s only the 3rd day of school. This app makes remote learning frustrating. Screenshot is more reliable.Show lessMmmmmqwerty
Great for little kids, would love dates on posts though
My kindergartener can use this app pretty intuitively. My only wish is that all posts for assignments, journal entries, notifications, all included a date and time when posted and replied to. I just went back and forth with my son’s teacher thinking we didn’t receive the posted assignments for the day, but in actuality he did them all by himself. When I looked in the completed assignments folder there was no way to tell which day they were posted and completed. So, A+ that the app is easy that he can do it on his own, but please help parents know that critical bit of info so I can more easily track!Show lessTerylH
Decent App. Needs to handle submission errors more gracefully!
The app is good. It could be great if developers could enable the app to auto-save or at minimum handle submission issues more gracefully. Over the past year and a half of use my tech savvy kids have lost hours worth of work due to issues with submission. If they happen to be outside of WiFi range for a second during submission or if Seesaw is having an issue on there end their completed assignment will be lost completely. The app needs to hold onto the completed work until it confirms a successful upload. Currently it does not do this and if you click submit and encounter an issue you will almost certainly loose everything. I am an IT professional with enterprise grade access points all over my home. I trust the development team is aware is this issue and is working on it. Until they fix it I have tried to coach my kids to continually save a draft of their work so that a submission issue won’t be quite as devastating.Show lessjimiamoore
Few bugs and annoying glitches....
Seesaw is great overall, but there is 1 thing I wanted to get fixed. At the moment it is running fine , but at some point this bug messes up my learning. It’s like this, So when I am doing an activity and needed to check something real quick. For example, google chrome. I leave the app for only a second and go back, then the app restarts and I loose all my work that I done on the activity. It is quite infuriating.... I hope that this certain bug gets fixed.
(Also maybe add that pop up where you can go back on your unfinished work like you would see on the Mac and Pc versions...)
Other than that seesaw is legit amazing!Show lessDiamondking300
Needs more scheduling options
I like the app. However, I need to be about to create an announcement, schedule it, and then select multiple classes at one time like assignments. It is extremely frustrating when you posted an assignment to multiple classes and realize you need to change it. Well, you would think you could edit it in My Lessons and it would change it. NOT! It’s not a living document. You have to change it in each class or delete it from each class and reassign the new one. OMG! And you can’t delete an item from multiple classes at once. Again, get ready to click your life away.Show lessCricketwhistle
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Hi,
Is there anyway to make logging in easier for families with multiple login details? Maybe an option to save login and password details?jvmadhwan
Overall nice but could use a little work
The text entry can make many of the assignments difficult to complete especially for younger children. For example, when filling in the missing blanks of 1-100 chart, a child must somehow draw in all the tiny numbers with a difficult to control mouse or fingertip drawing making them barely legible or running into other numbers. The only other option consists of creating and resizing 50+ separate text boxes for 2 character numbers which becomes quite tedious especially for a 7 year old. I’m not sure the solution but I’m begging for one.Show lessbdubya86
