Seesaw
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What is Seesaw
Seesaw is a K–12 learning experience platform used to create, collect, and share student work through digital portfolios and classroom activities. It supports teachers in assigning activities, capturing evidence of learning (photos, videos, drawings, notes), and communicating with families. Schools use it for formative assessment workflows, student reflection, and home–school engagement, with options for school/district administration and rostering integrations.
Student portfolio-based evidence
Seesaw centers on capturing student artifacts (images, video, audio, drawings, and files) as ongoing evidence of learning. This supports formative assessment and reflection beyond single-session quizzes or polls. Teachers can review work over time and provide feedback tied to specific submissions. The portfolio model also helps document progress for conferences and reporting workflows.
Family communication workflows
The platform includes built-in mechanisms to share student work with families and support two-way communication. This is useful for elementary and middle grades where caregiver visibility is a frequent requirement. Teachers can control what is shared and when, helping manage classroom communication. Compared with tools focused mainly on live engagement, Seesaw places more emphasis on home–school connection.
Teacher-friendly activity creation
Seesaw provides tools for creating and distributing activities that students complete in multiple modalities. It is designed for classroom use with younger learners, including simple submission and response options. Teachers can reuse and organize activities and collect responses in one place. This supports day-to-day instruction without requiring a separate authoring suite for basic interactive tasks.
Not a full LMS
Seesaw focuses on portfolios, activities, and communication rather than comprehensive course management. Organizations that need advanced gradebook features, complex assessment item banks, or higher-education style course structures may require additional systems. Administrative needs such as deep analytics and cross-course reporting can be more limited than in dedicated LMS platforms. As a result, Seesaw is often deployed alongside other core systems.
Assessment depth varies
While Seesaw supports formative assessment and feedback, it is not primarily a high-stakes testing platform. Advanced test security, proctoring, and large-scale standardized assessment workflows are not its core design. Rubrics and feedback are available, but sophisticated psychometrics or extensive question-type libraries may be better served by specialized assessment tools. Schools with heavy summative testing requirements may need complementary products.
Implementation depends on integrations
District deployments commonly rely on rostering and identity integrations (for example, SIS sync and SSO) to reduce manual account management. The quality of the experience can depend on how well these integrations are configured and maintained. Data governance and permissions require careful setup, especially when family access is enabled. Organizations with limited IT support may face additional rollout and support effort.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Seesaw Starter | Free (permanently) | Core creative tools and student portfolios; limited classroom limits (1 active class per teacher, basic communication, upload limits). Teachers can explore core features. |
| Seesaw LMS | Contact sales / Custom pricing | Elementary LMS (PreK–6) with teaching & learning tools, school & district dashboards, gradebook, progress monitoring, family communication; limited AI; licenses available only to schools/districts. |
| Seesaw Instruction & Insights | Contact sales / Custom pricing | Premium instructional tools, full access to Seesaw Library content, standards-aligned reporting, reading fluency & comprehensive assessment, instructional AI tools; add-on supplemental curriculum packages available for purchase. |
| Seesaw AI (Add-on) | Contact sales / Custom pricing | Full AI suite as an add-on to Instruction & Insights (Convert resources, generate from prompts, translate activities, YouTube converter); recommended for AI-enhanced instruction. |
Seller details
Seesaw Learning, Inc.
San Francisco, CA, USA
2013
Private
https://seesaw.me
https://x.com/seesaw
https://www.linkedin.com/company/seesaw-learning/
