Leveraging your LMS: Seesaw

Leveraging Your LMS: Seesaw

Using Skills & Progress

Grouping & Assigning

Using Folders

Student growth and progress tracking

Assign the original to specific students

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Supports seeing holistic view in Progress

Use emojis when creating folder names for ease of use📖 🔬 🌎 📝 📓

Turn on Manage Folders for both students and teachers

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Differentiate for students with modified assignments

Keep track of what skills or standards your students are working on

Promote organization & interdependence through folders

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Copy & modify the assignment for other students

Formative Assessments

Practice mode allows students to check their own learning with opportunities to corrrect

Combine the time savings of auto-grading with the power of multimodal tools.

Providing opportunities for feedback and self-checking

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Google Drive Integration

Teachers and students an add work created in Google apps like Docs, Slides, or Sheets

Give students flexibility in their work

Sometimes it's best to just app-smash with Google Drive

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Teach stuents how to create & submit their own activities

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Teach the students to just create & share themselves

Give students autonomy during their work

Student Self-Documentation

Enhancing G/T Projects with Technology: Using the TPSP & Other Tools

15 STEPS 1. The first step is to open Seesaw and click Settings Wrench 2. Click Manage student groups 3. Click the blank Add a student group box. Type in your chosen group name. Emojis can be used, if needed.Click Add Student Group button 4. Scroll down and click Bonnie Martinez 5. Scroll down and click Missy Luna 6. Click through to add checkmarks next to all students in that group. 7. You can click to Edit Icon, if desired. 8. Click green check to save 9. When ready to assign activities, click Library 10. When you click assign, click Edit Students, Folders, Skills 11. UNCHECK the box to deselect all students. 12. When all students are unchecked, click the checkbox for the group. This will automatically mark for that student group below. 13. If needed, attach the activity to a folder 14. Click Assign to Class like normal. 15. That's it. You're done! Here's an interactive tutorial** Best experienced in Full Screen (click the icon in the top right corner before you begin) ** https://www.iorad.com/player/2101505/Seesaw---How-to-Create-Student-Groups Next step

7 STEPS 1. The first step is to open Seesaw and click Settings Wrench 2. Scroll down and click Show add to folder step 3. Select Students & Teachers to have both students and teachers add to folders when creating activities. Then click the back arrow to go back. 4. Scroll down and click Manage folders 5. To add a folder, click Create Folder! 6. Choose a color, and then name the folder in Folder Name to your preference.You can use emojis in the name.Click the green check to save. 7. Best practice is to have folders appropriate for grade level.i.e. Kinder should only start with 1 until organization is understood.That's it. You're done. Here's an interactive tutorial ** Best experienced in Full Screen (click the icon in the top right corner before you begin) ** https://www.iorad.com/player/2101504/Seesaw---How-to-Create-Folders Next step

Use the Skills provided in the Curriculum to build the Skills list. Seesaw Resource: Pre-K Skills Quick List

Learn more in the Seesaw Formative Assessment overview.

How to use Google Apps or Google Drive with Seesaw on the webLink to Google FilesIf you want students to be able to access Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Sheets, Google Drawings, Google Form, videos, or other Files in Google Drive, you can add a link to those files into a post, activity example, or template or message.1. Tap the Link icon and paste in a link to the Google file. Students will need to be logged into their Google account to access the Google links or the file permissions need to be set to "anyone with the link can view." Upload Google FilesIf you want students to annotate on top of a Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Sheets, Google Drawings, you can upload to those files into a post, activity example or template or message.

• Seesaw will convert your file into a series of annotatable pages.
• Students will also able to access a link back to the original file as a PDF and in Google.
• Families will be able to view these files in their child’s journal even if they don’t have access to Google apps or access to Google Drive.

How to Upload a Google File

1. Tap the green +Add button to add a new post.
2. Tap Upload.
3. Tap Select from Google Drive.You will need to sign in to your Google account before you can browse files in your Google Drive.
4. Select a file. If the file can be added into Seesaw, the Select button will turn blue.

You will be taken to Seesaw's annotation canvas.

• Seesaw for Schools users and users previewing Seesaw's Premium Features can upload 1-20 pages of a Google item or PDF and use all creative tools on all of the pages.

TroubleshootingI added My Google File and now students can't move anythingWhen you upload a file from Google Drive into Seesaw, we don’t retain all of the interactive elements. We flatten the slide and then you can add more things in Seesaw. If you don't like this, you have two options.

• Option 1: Import your file using the steps above, then remake the parts the you want to be interactive in Seesaw using Seesaw’s tools.
• Option 2: Use the Link tool to link to the file in Google directly and have the kids do the work in Google (instead of importing the pages into Seesaw via the Upload tool). Students will do their work in Google and when they’re done, they can either link to their file in Google Drive via the Link tool or upload their completed response in Seesaw via the Upload tool. If you add /template/preview to the end of your Google Docs or Slides URL, Google will show a button that asks students to make a copy of the file before doing their own work on it.

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