Introducing Seesaw for Australia
Based on feedback from our growing Seesaw educator community in Australia, we’ve made significant enhancements to make Seesaw even better for our school partners and instructional leaders.
Local English Dialect
ACARA and States’ Standards Alignment and Education Levels Global Date & Time Format
More Activities Aligned with Australia’s Curriculum Standards
The Seesaw Library continues to grow with lessons aligned to standards like ACARA and state curricula in all six states.
Performance Improvements
Building on our commitment to security, privacy, and existing Australia Privacy Act compliance, all Australia-based customers will have their data stored and processed in Sydney, improving performance.
Tailored User Experience
User experience customised for schools located in Australia, with a native look and feel.
Accessibility
Seesaw is designed to meet WCAG 2.1 AA guidelines and provide students with versatile tools to express their learning through photos, videos, voice, text, and more. Teachers deliver instruction through various modes to support pre-readers and visually impaired students, and ensure accessibility for hearing-impaired students and families with features like text labels, captions, and video closed captions.
Our Commitment to Privacy and Security
• We use security and encryption best practices to safeguard personal data, including regular 3rd party security audits
• We are transparent about how we collect and handle personal data
• We never sell your data or advertise 3rd party products in Seesaw
• We don’t own the content you create in Seesaw and student work is private by default
Integrations & Compatibility
We make it easy for schools to integrate with platforms they already use, allowing students and teachers to securely and easily access the tools they need without additional overhead.
Learn How Educators are Finding Success with Seesaw
Seesaw supports high quality instruction in its ability to differentiate tasks according to student needs and show me a clear snapshot of student progress.
- Samantha D., Year 2 Teacher, NSW
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I have used the four-star system on Seesaw to align with our school reporting levels. When it comes to reports, I simply open Seesaw and all work samples have been averaged into a level based on the criteria. This saves time and helps to make reporting live and relevant.
- Timothy S, STEM Specialist and Digital Pedagogy Coach, Victoria
I love that I can set high-quality lessons for most key learning areas for my students. I can differentiate the content to best suit the individual student’s needs.
- Meredith M, Senior Teacher, Queensland
The Learning Experience Platform That Transforms Primary Instruction
Trusted and Loved by 1.5 Million Educators, Students, and Families in Australia
Seesaw is the only primary Learning Experience Platform that offers a suite of award-winning tools and curricula to deliver joyful, inclusive instruction through interactive lessons, digital portfolios, and two-way communication features. Centralise your implementation efforts to save time and
Seesaw keeps everyone in the learning loop with continuous visibility into the student learning experience to support and celebrate their learning.
Administrators
Teachers
Using Seesaw as a digital portfolio provides students with a platform to showcase learning. It’s a place where they can show and be proud of their understanding, upload published work, and keep parents engaged in the learning process. It provides me with a culmination of work samples for each student that are easy to find and provide insight into student knowledge and understanding, which then informs future teaching, assessment and reporting.
- Year 1 Teacher, Australia
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Families
Schools Use Seesaw For
Instruction: Enable teachers to deliver high-quality, standards-aligned supplemental instruction that encourages student voice and choice (including front-of-class, centres/stations, independent work). Lessons are aligned to 30+ core curriculum publishers.
Family Engagement: Engage families in the learning process through inclusive two-way communication with text translation options in 100+ languages. Families gain insight into their student’s work and a window into the classroom.
Digital Portfolios: Capture learning completed within and outside of Seesaw through digital portfolios that showcase daily, quarterly, and yearly student growth.
Assessment & Data-Driven Decisions: Routinely assess student learning to glean meaningful insights into their understanding and make data-informed instructional decisions. Schools can also create custom auto-graded formative assessments with detailed reports.
Accessible & Differentiated Learning: Enable developmentally appropriate, accessible, and differentiated instruction to reach and engage all learners.
The Learning Experience Platform Transforming Primary Education
Trusted and loved by 25 million educators, students, and families worldwide, Seesaw is the only primary Learning Experience Platform offering a suite of award-winning tools, resources, and curricula for teachers to deliver joyful, inclusive instruction. Through interactive lessons, digital portfolios, actionable data, and two-way communication features, Seesaw keeps everyone in the learning loop by providing continuous visibility into the student learning experience to support and celebrate their learning.
Seesaw Keeps Everyone in the Learning Loop
Administrators
Teachers
Students
Families
Award-Winning Instructional Platform Grounded in Research and Designed by Experts
• Validated as a designated Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Tier III and Tier IV evidence-based intervention by industry-leading third-party, Edtech insights organisation, LearnPlatform
• Earned Digital Promise product certifications for Research-Based Design for Instructional Learning Products and Learner Variability
• Awarded International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Seal of Alignment, demonstrating powerful instructional tools that deliver a high-quality learning experience aligned to the leading digital age standards
• Structured and explicit literacy instruction based on the Science of Reading research from Dr Louisa Moats and Wiley Blevins
• Supports educators in applying the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) guidelines to their instruction
• Equips schools with evidence-based tools to implement Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS)
The Seesaw Framework
Seesaw’s Core Principles
Seesaw was thoughtfully designed to support the entire primary learning journey. By tailoring our design to cater to the primary experience, we embrace joy, inclusivity, and connection as our core principles. These principles play a crucial role in mitigating achievement gaps and enhancing equity by providing robust support for a diverse range of learners at this foundational stage of education.
All-In-One Platform
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Ensure learning is active and hands-on, with a focus on play, creativity, and encouragement of divergent thinking.
Remove barriers to entry tenable all learners and their carers to participate and thrive.
Include families and administrators to be part of the learning experience and engage as active participants.
Positive outcomes for learners, families, and educators. JOYFUL
Seesaw’s Learning Experience Platform is a comprehensive Foundation - Year 6 solution that contributes significantly to enhancing student learning outcomes. Successful schools leverage Seesaw to effectively support one or more of the following use cases below. They can be implemented independently or in conjunction to support a variety of state or school initiatives with a various funding options to support them.
Instruction • Formative Assessments • Digital Portfolios • Family Communication & Engagement • Accessibility & Differentiation
Instructional Resources
Includes thousands of engaging ready-to-teach standards-aligned lessons across all subject areas, in Foundation - Year 6.
English • Early Literacy • Maths • Science • Humanities and Social Science • Digital Technologies • Motor Development English Language Development • Character Building • Holiday Learning • Lessons in Spanish • Daily Routines
Curriculum Alignments
The Seesaw Library provides supplemental curriculum correlated to over 30 core curriculum publishers.
Harmony • Second Step • CSTA • ISTE • Amplify CKLA • Benchmark Advance • Fundations • Heggerty HMH Into Reading • Journeys ELA • Reading Horizons • Discovery • ReadyGEN ELA (Savvas) • Wit & Wisdom Wonders • Bridges Math • EnVision Math (Savvas) • Eureka Math • Everyday Math • Go Math • Illustrative Math HMH Into Math • PreK on My Way (Scholastic) • Three Cheers for PreK (Savvas) • Frog Street Literacy Frog Street Math • Amplify Science • Elevate Science (Savvas) • TCI Science • Twig! Science
Flexible Implementation Options
Whole Class Instruction • Stations and Small Groups • Guided Practice • Independent Work • Blended Learning
Accessibility
Seesaw is designed to meet WCAG 2.1 AA guidelines and provide students with versatile tools to express their learning through photos, videos, voice, text, and more. Teachers deliver instruction through various modes to support pre-readers and visually impaired students, and ensure accessibility for hearingimpaired students and families with features like text labels, captions, and video closed captions.
Integrations & Compatibility
We make it easy for schools to integrate with platforms they already use, allowing students and teachers to securely and easily access the tools they need without additional overhead.
The Power of the Learning Loop
Joyful. Inclusive. Connected.
Seesaw’s Learning Experience Platform keeps everyone in the learning loop by providing ongoing visibility into students’ activities in order to foster to foster a collaborative environment where families, administrators, and peers can actively support and celebrate their work. This cultivates a sense of pride in students, motivating them to eagerly share and communicate their learning experiences with everyone in their life.
Teachers begin by assigning content from Seesaw. They can easily search by Australian Curriculum and all Australian States’ standards or curriculum alignments then present the lesson to the whole class, student groups, or individual students. Teachers can view student’s work, make comments, provide feedback, and send back for reflection and revision. When students have completed their work, teachers can share it with families so they can see what their children have been working on each day.
Students find assigned activities in their student journal. Seesaw’s intuitive multimodal tools allow them to learn and share through photos, videos, voice, text, and more. These built-in scaffolds make content accessible for all ages, and give students voice and choice. They can see comments and feedback from their teacher, connected family members, or peers. Work is captured in a digital portfolio which can be reviewed during family-teacher meetings.
Families connected on Seesaw can automatically receive messages from their child’s teacher to view their child’s work, and can provide feedback, make comments, and celebrate their work from any device. They no longer have to ask, “What did you do at school today?”. Teachers and/or administrators can share class or school announcements with translations in over 100 languages to ensure everyone is kept in the loop. *Parents and carers select family members allowed to receive access to their child’s work through customisable control settings.
Peers have the ability to view work done by other students and leave voice or text comments on projects* and activities which fosters a collaborative class environment where students feel celebrated. *Teachers must turn on this capability and approve any comments before it is posted.
Administrators
Administrators have insight dashboards to show engagement on Seesaw and standards-based performance - allowing them to make data-informed decisions on school initiatives. This enables them to support teachers and have details on each child to refer to when meeting with families. They can organise their school library, helping teachers to quickly discover the right resources aligned to their scope and sequence or curriculum.
Since using Seesaw at Chesterfield Day School, the conversation between parents and students has gone from, ‘How was your day today?’ to ‘Oh! I saw you were working on a presentation in humanities, what was that about?’. From a teacher point of view, Seesaw has provided greater transparency into what is happening in our classrooms.
- Jeff, Associate Head of School
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Peers
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Students
The Seesaw Library
Supplemental Curriculum for All Primary Year Groups and Subject Areas
The Seesaw Library offers a diverse collection of over 6,000 Foundation through Year 6 engaging, high-quality, in each Australian State standards-aligned activities for teachers to supplement their instruction. Created by educators and curriculum experts and correlated to over 30 core publishers, these ready-to-go resources are easy to assign in Seesaw.
Learning Experiences that Transform Instruction
Seesaw is built on extensive educational research and is grounded in learning science and practitioner experience. Seesaw’s joyful and inclusive instructional resources equip teachers with a multitude of tools and media options to enable students to showcase their learning, foster digital citizenship skills, and encourage creativity through original works and remixing existing artifacts.
Maths
Develop number sense, support Power Math Standards, facilitate mathematical discussions, and assign daily maths review activities. Lessons include digital maths manipulatives like flippable coins, dice, and more!
Humanities & Social Science
Students will learn about people, places, and events that shaped our world. They’ll investigate real questions with exploratory and hands-on activities. Students will become historians as they create journals to share research about geography, economics, government, and history!
Character Building
Character building lessons give students a safe space to learn, share, practise, and build confidence.
English
Support all language domains – reading, writing, listening, and speaking. With ready-to-teach content from Fiction Books to Grammar Detectives, Writing Prompts, and Interactive Texts, Seesaw is perfect for running records and includes reading fluency assessments.
Technologies
STEAM: NGSS-aligned activities investigate the natural world through cross-curricular scientific explorations. Design Thinking: Challenges students to explore real-world questions and topics through the design thinking process. Project-Based Learning: The open canvas provides students with powerful tools to capture exploration and share findings.
Motor Development
Play-based Pre-Kindy content incorporates movement and fine motor skill activities. Students and teachers can easily capture hands-on, authentic experiences to track progress and share with families.
*Seesaw Instruction & Insights includes Seesaw technologies curricula with every purchase. Additional packages are available and include Early Literacy and English Language Development (ELD).
Award-Winning Multimodal Tools
Empowering Students to Show What They Know
Seesaw’s intuitive, developmentally-appropriate multimodal tools empower students to showcase their work through various mediums such as photo, video, voice, text, and more. This provides all learners with accessible tools to support various learning modalities. Additionally, teachers are able to offer multiple modes of instruction for any lesson or communication.
Learning Made Visible
With Seesaw’s multimodal tools, learners have a safe space to learn, practise, and build confidence while their strengths and experiences are honoured.
Tools like “draw with audio recordings” provide teachers with deep insights not possible through paper/pencil and other programs.
Multimodal tools remove barriers to learning and empower students of all ages to build and reflect on their knowledge.
Coursework completed inside or outside of Seesaw can be captured with Seesaw and used to explain their thinking by using the multimodal tools in the format that best fits their learning style – providing student voice and choice!
“Seesaw allows me not to just scale the activity down, but create an entirely different one that targets my students’ needs.
- Anne-Marie, Year 3 teacher, South Australia
Engaging Every Learner
Instructions in multiple formats. All Seesaw lessons come with written and audio instructions (in English and Spanish). Teachers can create their own lessons or alter existing lessons to differentiate instruction.
Lessons include modelling with multiple opportunities to practise. Visual cues signal and allow pre-readers to navigate lessons with ease.
Frames and focus mode eliminate the number of tools available on the canvas, removing distractions and helping to guide students to the appropriate tools.
Formative assessments provide “practise mode” to allow students to check their work in a safe, low-stake environment.
Read-with-Me allows students to independently access text to foster the connection between spoken and written word.
Assignment flexibility allows teachers to provide students, or student groups, with additional practise, or opportunities for enrichment, to master skills.
Family Engagement & Communication
Family communication has never been easier than with Seesaw! Engage families as partners in their child’s learning to motivate and support them with an authentic audience that can aid and celebrate their learning. Seesaw keeps everyone in the learning loop with communication that is inclusive, efficient, flexible, and secure.
Three Ways to Foster a Positive School Culture
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Enable Family Access
Centralised bulk family invites, including school and multi-school group ClassLink and Clever sync, to make setup seamless. Once connected, access remains active from year to year.
School-wide Communication
Easy to share and inclusive messaging options:
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Send Messages & Announcements
Share photos, progress, videos, links, and files in private messages or through school-wide announcements. Perfect for newsletters, weekly updates, and reminders.
• Communicate with families via two-way messages
• View, like, and comment on student work
• View progress shared by teachers
• School-wide announcements
• Include multimedia attachments – photos, videos, links, and more – to provide home resources and deepen connections
• Provide families with translations in 100+ languages
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Interviews Planning Made Easy
With Seesaw, families don’t have to wait for parent/ teacher interviews to learn what’s happening in class. Use parent/teacher interviews as an opportunity for students to reflect on and take ownership of sharing their learning and growth.
Secure Messaging
• Administrators and teachers manage the student and family experiences
• Students can message each other only when initiated and supervised by the teacher
• Parents or carers select family members to receive access to student work
• Recipients can be removed or blocked from messages at any time
Nearly 1,000 teachers were surveyed, and 96% said Seesaw helps them provide family members with visibility into their child’s learning in the classroom.
Instructional Tools & Resources for Teachers
Seesaw understands the unique needs of primary educators, and created tools and resources to help save teachers time. Teachers can use Seesaw in flexible ways to meet their classroom needs, gather important data for reports and administrators, and connect with families, all in one platform!
Teacher Resources
The Seesaw Library contains hundreds of ACARA and Australian States’ standards and curriculum-aligned, ready-to-teach Pre-Kindy through Year 6 lessons with everything educators need to teach with confidence including:
• Lesson Plans
• Assessments
• ACARA and Australian States’ Standards & Curriculum Alignments
• Scope and Sequences
Flexible Implementations
Seesaw works in a variety of settings to support teachers with whole group instruction, stations, independent work, etc., so it is the perfect tool for year-round use. Teachers implement it into their daily core instruction, support remediation, differentiation, acceleration, and set holiday activities.
• Implementation Guides
• Printable Handouts
• Instructional Resources
• Practise Activities
• Professional Development
Curriculum & Standards Alignment Tool
Teachers can easily search the Seesaw Library for lessons and content ACARA and Australian standards alignments from every State built in to meet the needs of their unit.
Designed with Instructional Best Practices
• Lessons include audio instructions in both English and Spanish
• Visual cues allow pre-readers to navigate lessons with ease
• Lessons employ the Gradual Release Model to support learners in gaining independence
• Supports numerous learning modalities, providing students with multiple ways to showcase their learning
• Digital and hands-on opportunities support a balanced learning experience
Built-in Family Communication Features
• Share student progress with families through messages
• Provide class-wide announcements for upcoming events (project reminders, parent/teacher interviews, excursions, etc.)
• Translate text into 100+ languages ensuring all parents are in the loop
• Provide resources for at-home learning
Customisable Creation Tools
• Spin up quick auto-marked formative assessments with our A.I. question generator – perfect for entrance and exit tickets
• Create lessons from scratch or edit and customise lessons from the Seesaw Library
• Use repeatable, open-ended instructional templates ready-to-assign for all subject areas
A.I. Question Generator
Out of almost 1000 teachers surveyed, 98% said Seesaw helps them to deliver engaging instructional experiences to their students.
Settings, Insights, & Reports for Teachers
Customisation & Time Saving Tools
Seesaw includes the features that are most requested by teachers, like built-in tools for planning and organisation: office hours, schedule aheads, due dates, and more! *Teachers can control their classroom settings and other settings can be adjusted at the school and centralised governance level.
Deep Insights to Drive Instruction
Seesaw captures and reports evidence of student learning in ways that provide deep learning insights and help teachers identify misconceptions sooner, allowing students on-the-spot intervention. Teachers can provide written or oral feedback on student assignments, send work back for revision, and mark-up assignments using the State’s criteria. There is even an area for private teacher notes.
Reports & Progress Monitoring
The Progress Tab allows teachers to monitor development against standards and includes formative assessment reports in one place.
92% of teachers report that using Seesaw in their classroom saves them time.
Seesaw’s Formative Assessments
Capture Proficiency Beyond Traditional Assessments
Seesaw’s developmentally-appropriate multimodal tools enable learning to be captured and easily seen or heard. As an example:
• Audio and screen recordings allow students to explain their thinking
• Intuitive drag and drop format offers an alternative to multiple choice
• Audio recording allows teachers to assess reading fluency no matter the English dialect or foreign language
• Watch students solve a maths problem to identify misconceptions
• Observe students record the steps of a science experiment
Quickly Gauge Understanding with Auto-Marked Questions
Combine the time savings of auto-marking and the power of multimodal tools to gain deeper insights into student learning to target support and guide instruction.
• A variety of formats including multiple choice, true/false, drag and drop, polls, and free response options for educators to assess learning
• Practice mode provides students with instant feedback to guide independent work
• Assessments support numerous DDA and DSE accommodations
Built for Responsive Instruction
• Built-in formative assessments in lessons provide teachers with real-time feedback to evaluate student understanding
• Teachers can quickly assess student needs, provide actionable feedback, and adapt their instruction
• Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) - powered question generator creates questions and saves time for teachers
90% of teachers said viewing student work in Seesaw informs instruction and/or lesson planning.
“96% of teachers find Seesaw helpful for assessing students’ learning proficiency towards curriculum standards.
Seesaw enables me to capture genuine evidence of learning, even when I can’t be working one-to-one with a student.
- Sheree, P-6 Learning Support Teacher, Queensland
Support Diverse Classrooms
Foster a Community of Inclusive Learning
With Seesaw, differentiation is made easy for teachers to support students with physical, learning, cognitive, or other disabilities or learning challenges. Teachers are able to offer multiple modes of instruction for any lesson or communication. These can be displayed through voice labels for pre-readers or visually-impaired learners, and text labels for hearing impaired students and families. Flexible student settings, multimodal tools, and digital portfolios allow opportunities to support Multilingual Learners and DDA and DSE accommodations. Each lesson features audio supports for activity instructions in both English and Spanish, as well as easily-accessible closed captioning. Seesaw also provides translation.
A Safe Space to Practise
Speaking
Students use audio recording, video, and screen recording tools to practise without the pressure of performing in front of others.
Listening
Audio inputs make Year Group content, complex ideas, and new vocabulary accessible, which drives language acquisition.
Self-Assessing & Reflecting
Students can listen to their voice recording and progress –a powerful learning experience that builds ownership, motivation, and confidence.
Universal Design for Learning Guidelines (UDL)
Seesaw’s Learning Experience Platform provides multiple ways for educators to apply the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Guidelines to their instruction.
Provide Multiple Means of Engagement
Provide Multiple Means of Representation
Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS)
Seesaw’s evidence-based tools help educators implement MTSS and engage all learners.
Tier 1: Whole Class
Formative Assessments support data-driven decisions. Teachers monitor progress with live student response data that enables responsive instruction and differentiation.
Tier 2: Small Group
Teachers can create flexible student groups to differentiate content based on their specific needs (intervention or enrichment) and monitor progress within that group.
Tier 3: Intensive Individualised Support
Digital portfolios track student progress year-over-year.
Drive Academic Growth and Language Acquisition
Culturally responsive pedagogy reflects the lives of students. When students see themselves in their work, their affective filters are lowered and they are more engaged in their education.
Inclusive messaging that automatically translates text into 100+ languages helps engage students’ families and supports continuity of learning at home.
Provide Multiple Means of Action & Expression
Seesaw’s integrated support features, like written and audio instructions, clear visuals and modelling tools, formative assessments, and student groups, enable developmentally appropriate instruction to reach and engage all learners.
Digital Portfolios
Capture Evidence of Learning to Gather
Learning Artifacts
Track growth year-over-year from Pre-Kindy through Year 6 (and beyond) with Seesaw’s digital portfolios. Work completed inside or outside of Seesaw can be captured for progress monitoring, and to hear reflections from students on their learning. Video and screen recording provide visibility and insights into student thinking, so teachers can pinpoint student needs and personalise instruction. Digital portfolios demonstrate proficiency beyond traditional assessments and help support DDA and DSE documentation and parent-teacher meetings.
Three Simple Ways to Capture Student Learning
Capture Hands-On Learning
Take a photo or video of any assignment, from maths manipulatives to science experiments, to art projects.
Share, Reflect, Celebrate, and Measure Yearly Growth
Gather Digital Artifacts
Upload tools help capture any assignment in Seesaw, where students can reflect on their learning.
• Seesaw’s digital portfolios capture student work throughout the entire school journey, helping to measure and celebrate development throughout the years
• Students reflect on their learning and share with families or peers
• Digital portfolios encourage student ownership and spark growth throughout the year
• Families can see daily work to support and celebrate their child
• Highlight pages provide teachers with flexible, ready-to-assign templates for students to capture and reflect on their learning in repeatable formats
Encourage Student Voice & Autonomy
Video, voice recording, drawing, and more help provide visibility into student thinking and allow them to demonstrate proficiency beyond traditional assessments.
97% of teachers say Seesaw helps them capture evidence of student learning over time.
“Perfect for student-led meetings
Seesaw provides an easy-to-use platform for teachers, students, and families, which enables students to take responsibility for documenting their learning journey.
- Stefanie, Year 1 teacher, Victoria
Administrative Tools & Features
Support Robust Implementations Across All Primary Year Groups
Seesaw’s administrative tools empower school leaders with actionable insights to effectively support teachers, students, and families in achieving measurable and successful student outcomes. With instructional resources designed to fuel educators’ passion and address diverse student learning needs, these tools foster active family engagement and provide a positive and joyful educational school climate for all stakeholders involved.
Monitor Progress Through Deep Learning Insights
Centralised governance administrator dashboards provide visibility and actionable insights into student performance on standards, engagement, and usage of Seesaw.
Streamline Operations with Flexible Multi-school Group Tools
Administrators have powerful tools with the ability to customise and manage school settings at scale, and in one place.
• Curriculum and marking scales for consistent data captured across schools
• Adjust message settings
• Customise the share settings for the library
Curate and Organise School & Multi-school Group Libraries
• Help teachers quickly discover the right resources aligned to council initiatives
• Easily align Seesaw to your scope and sequence
• Curate instructional sequences to be used school-wide or across multi-school groups
Simplify Your EdTech Ecosystem
Seesaw eliminates the need for single-solution, Year group-specific platforms by solving multiple needs in one – including interactive lessons, inclusive communication tools, digital portfolios, and more! Plus, it provides a consistent experience for your students, teachers, and families from year-to-year!
Ensure a Safe School Environment Through Privacy and Policy Best Practices
Seesaw is an industry leader in privacy and security practices. All Australia-based customers have their data stored and processed in Sydney, improving performance. We have been assessed by Safer Technologies 4 Schools and have met the required privacy and security standards. We ensure that data is collected and processed securely, privately, transparently, and in accordance with international privacy laws such as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), United Kingdom (UK) GDPR, the Australia Privacy Act, and the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act PIPEDA.
Experience the Benefits of Seesaw School-Wide
Seesaw is an all-in-one Learning Experience Platform designed to support joyful and inclusive instruction for all primary students. When Seesaw is implemented school-wide we see increased engagement for students and teachers, stronger culture across the school, and families benefiting from a consistent experience across all years.
Provide a Consistent Experience
All users rely on the same platform, features, and navigation no matter the academic year.
Capture Year-Over-Year Progress
Digital portfolios allow students, teachers, and families to see and celebrate growth over the course of a school year and from one Year Group to the next. This is a powerful way for students to reflect on their growth over time and for teachers to capture evidence for curriculum standards.
Ease Administrative Management
Rely on one platform for managing school-wide settings, usage and engagement reporting, progress monitoring, school-wide announcements, and more.
Simplify Your EdTech Landscape
Eliminate the need for single-solution, year group-specific platforms. Seesaw solves for multiple needs with one platform that includes interactive lessons, inclusive communication tools, digital portfolios, and more.
Support All Students
Seesaw’s multimodal learning tools and Kindergarten - Year 6 curriculum are specifically designed for primary students - supporting the wide range of developmental needs from a students’ first days in school through the upper levels.
Drive School-Wide Initiatives Forward
Holistically support school-wide initiatives with proven strategies in one place around: Instruction, Family Engagement, Digital Portfolios, Assessment and Data Informed Decisions, and Accessible and Differentiated Learning.
Australia Impact Report
Addressing Important Topics Facing Administrators Today
The Power of the Learning Loop
Seesaw, a Learning Experience Platform trusted and loved by 25 million educators, students, and families worldwide, is having a profound impact on some of the most important topics school administrators are facing today. Tailored for PreK - Year 5 students, Seesaw enables schools to actively involve parents, carers, and family members in what we call “the learning loop”, fostering a collaborative partnership in their child’s educational journey. Engaging students in these crucial developmental years can yield positive and enduring effects academically, socially, and emotionally, instilling a lifelong love of learning.
This impact report includes testimonials from educators and school leaders from Australia, highlighting successful strategies they are employing to implement Seesaw, and the positive impact it’s having on their school communities and student achievement.
Seesaw’s Learning Experience Platform supports OECD Future of Education and Skills 2030 Conceptual Learning Framework from the Student Agency for 2030.
Reference #1: “Students with involved parents or caregivers earn higher grades and test scores, have better social skills and behave better at school.”
Reference #2: “When students play an active role in shaping their lessons, they are more likely to participate, ask questions, have open and candid discussions, express opposing opinions and make challenging statements.”
Reference #3: “Research shows that responsible and positive family engagement with schools improves student achievement, reduces absenteeism and strengthens parents’ confidence in their child’s education.”
Reference #4: “An effective learning environment is built on ‘co-agency,’ i.e. where students, teachers, parents, and the community work together. Teachers play a key role in designing a learning environment that values agency.”
*Source: https://search.oecd.org/education/2030-project/teaching-and-learning/learning/student-agency/Student_ Agency_for_2030_concept_note.pdf
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Family Engagement & Communication
Seesaw helps schools develop strong family relationships as partners in their child’s learning. This is particularly critical for supporting families of all types including immigrant families, divorced families, families overseas, and those with non-English speaking family members. Seesaw helps foster a sense of belonging, provides support, bridges geographical gaps, and ensures families’ inclusive participation in their child’s education. Parent-teacher interviews, translation assistance, and involving extended family members all contribute to building a strong foundation of learning that is key for a child’s success in life.
“Our families consistently affirm that Seesaw gives them a window to their child’s learning and helps them feel connected to the school, despite leading busy lives that sometimes prevent them from physically being here. Our students LOVE sharing their learning progress with their families and the fact that their work is being ‘published’ and shared with their families, motivates them to show their best selves and aligns perfectly with our high expectations culture. Seesaw is a wonderful platform that supports us in celebrating learning and working in partnership with our families and community.”
- Karen Morris, Assistant Principal Curriculum and Instruction, New South Wales
“Working at a school where parents often are required to travel for work and many students have grandparents and other family members overseas, Seesaw has been an amazing tool for sharing students’ learning. My favourite memory is a boy whose family moved to Perth, Western Australia for his dad’s work. He shared the family code with grandparents in New South Wales and grandparents in England. It was amazing that families in different parts of the country and world were part of our classroom.”
- Glenda Harnett, Project Coordinator - Teaching and Learning, Western Australia
“Seesaw allows families, no matter where they are or how often they see the child, to engage with the child’s schooling. I share videos and photos of skills they are learning and developing and I always get such great feedback from families about how they enjoy seeing these.”
- Jade Morrison, Year 2/3 Classroom Teacher, Western Australia
“86% of our families are from non-English speaking backgrounds. Although they may not always feel comfortable communicating, the engagement from parents as we provide real-time sharing of work, is fantastic. The ability to translate texts/messages in over 100 languages has assisted in increasing family engagement across the school.”
- Graham Maher, Assistant Principal, Western Australia
“Using Seesaw to engage families within my class has been a game changer. I love that families have a direct link to the classroom, viewing work that is occurring and hearing conversations that take place. It has also been particularly helpful in assessing students’ learning because, parents view the task and can provide additional support at home based on what they are seeing.”
- Danni Mattiazzo, Head of Curriculum and Assessment, Northern Territory
“Our school no longer has walls because of Seesaw. Our parents enjoy the transparency Seesaw creates. Families are part of their child’s learning journey and can see and discuss everyday learning experiences.”
- Natalie See, Principal, New South Wales
Student Engagement
Seesaw is instrumental in promoting student engagement through its versatile features that are tailored to support diverse learning needs and preferences. Seesaw’s “Daily Check-Ins” enable educators to gain insights into students’ interests, well-being, challenges, and situations, and foster a supportive and empathetic learning environment. Seesaw also enhances learning experiences by animating diagrams, incorporating audio elements, and allowing for annotations, making complex concepts more accessible and engaging for students. Whether documenting a science experiment or a STEM project, Seesaw facilitates hands-on learning experiences that promote active participation and deep understanding. Seesaw supports joy and celebration in the classroom, reinforcing positive behaviour and creating memorable learning moments that inspire students to thrive academically and emotionally.
“Watching the joy of the students that for the first time, can articulate their learning in a style that suits them is the most magical moment.”
- Laura Lang, Year 3/4 Primary School Teacher, Western Australia
“Students learn the best through creativity and inquiry. Using Seesaw allows students to design and develop their responses in the best way THEY see fit. This means higher student engagement, ownership, and academic results.”
- Daniel Mavroleon, Instructional Technology Coach, Queensland
“I feel it’s really important that students are involved in their learning, not just passive receivers of knowledge. Part of this is being able to track their growth in learning using Seesaw as a digital portfolio, which allows students to review their learning journey and the growth they’ve made over time.”
- Ben White, School Leader, Australian Capital Territory
“Each time we publish work to our digital portfolio, we spend five5 minutes at the end of the lesson showcasing each student’s work. They love seeing their work up on the screen. We use the TAG peer feedback strategy, where students think, pair, share, and then tell us something they liked, ask a question, and give a suggestion. The students love this time and often end up using the suggestions from their peers in future lessons.”
- Brittany Warton, Year 2 Teacher, New South Wales
“I love that Seesaw gives my students ownership over their learning, empowering them to choose their best work to upload to their digital portfolios and share with their families.”
- Alyssa Hudson, K-6 STEAM Teacher, Queensland
School Participation & Attendance
Students are much more likely to participate in school when they feel supported by their family and educators. Seesaw helps increase school participation by creating joyful and inclusive experiences that engage all types of students to have a positive learning experience. This helps teachers effectively reach students that are new, or shy and reserved, and facilitate remote learning for students unable to be within the classroom. These factors help foster improved attendance rates and continuous learning experiences for all students, regardless of their circumstances.
“As principal of our school, Seesaw allows me to have a snapshot of each classroom each week. Often, I can physically visit classrooms and engage with the students and their learning but if I am unable to, I can jump onto Seesaw and see what students have been learning. I love the fact I can ‘like’ what they have done but also that I can give students feedback, encouragement, or feedforward. Parents love seeing this too! I have also loved seeing some of our reluctant readers progress in their reading and capture this in Seesaw. It is so rewarding to be able to look back to where students were at the beginning of the year and just how far they have now come.”
- Mary Jones, Principal, Victoria
“I had a student working three years below his grade level. He was showing negative behaviours because he couldn’t complete the set work. When I began using Seesaw within his classroom and differentiated his work, his engagement skyrocketed. He was able to show his learning without the fear of other students knowing that his assignment was different from theirs. He used text-to-speech so the questions could be read to him and he could record the answers rather than having to write or type them. His confidence grew and his attendance also improved substantially.”
- Jessica Sluyter, Year 2-5 Classroom Teacher, New South Wales
“Seesaw has empowered students to write messages to me when they have missed school. In their eyes, it is a big thing to be heard and valued.”
- Natalie Gladman, Student Learning Leader, Queensland
“A reluctant and shy student rarely participated in class discussions. One day the task was to share your understanding of angles. He worked with a peer and recorded himself in Seesaw explaining the different angles. I was so proud!”
- Mai Lu, Relieving Deputy Principal, New South Wales
“Seesaw gives voice to the voiceless students in our class. We have those students who find it difficult to share their ideas and knowledge with a class of students, they are nervous and shy. Seesaw unlocks a new world for these students, they can present and be creative without needing to be anxious or shy about talking or presenting in front of the whole class.”
- Luke Vine, Assistant Principal, Western Australia
Student Achievement
Seesaw’s Learning Experience Platform correlates with improved end-of-year assessment outcomes by focusing on learners’ unique needs. Unlike other products, Seesaw enhances the student, teacher, and classroom experience with age-appropriate solutions. It equips teachers with tools and curriculum to maximize students’ potential during their crucial foundational years. Seesaw fosters critical thinking, comprehension, and fluency assessment, facilitating tailored interventions. It promotes collaboration between families and teachers, aligning strategies with classroom curriculum and empowering both educators and families alike to drive academic growth and student success through joyful and dynamic learning environments.
“Seesaw was able to help my students look at their learning and self-reflect to understand what they need to improve on. One of my students noticed their reading fluency was something they could work on and through recording and listening to themselves back they worked on it, and it eventually led to better outcomes.”
- Lauren O’Connor, Year 4 Teacher, Western Australia
“I utilise Seesaw extensively in my STEAM classroom due to its exceptional capacity for building comprehensive digital portfolios of students’ achievements. What truly sets it apart is its versatility, empowering students to express themselves through various mediums. This diverse toolkit not only fosters individuality but also supports differentiated learning, ensuring that every student has equitable access to the educational experience.”
- Tam Scharf, STEAM Teacher, Queensland
“When my families see their child’s actual work and hear their voice, I know they are hooked with us on this learning journey. I’ve completely thrown out my old way of sending newsletters. It’s about so much more than updates. They can see the growth and the student is so proud. I feel like a rockstar teacher by making this happen.”
- Morgan Huggett, Special Education Teacher, Queensland
“When teaching, Seesaw gives me the chance to allow all students to succeed. I can differentiate my lessons easily for small groups without having to create many resources. Within Seesaw I often give my students options as to how they present their learning e.g. videos, photos, drawings, or even just typing the response. Seesaw allows me to see the growth in my students and know I’m helping them to achieve.”
- Laura Espinoza, Year 4 Teacher, Western Australia
Teacher Support, Retention, & Positive School Culture
Schools across the world are facing teacher shortages. In light of this reality, keeping existing staff happy and engaged while developing teachers who are new to the profession, are critical drivers of positive school culture and academic achievement. For experienced teachers, Seesaw helps to alleviate their workload and enhance their productivity with easy-to-administer assessments, ready-to-teach lessons aligned to their standards, multiple ways to differentiate learning, and parent communication tools that are seamlessly connected to student learning. For beginning teachers, Seesaw provides tools that align with effective teaching practices like promoting student voice and choice, providing scaffolds and opportunities for differentiation, and lessons based on effective teaching methods (gradual release of responsibility, for example).
“I teach seven Year levels, and keeping track of everyone’s work is a huge task. Seesaw makes collecting work and marking so much simpler.”
- Nikki Muller, Prep - 6 Technology Teacher, Queensland
“In times of teacher shortages, the Seesaw voice recording tool is a blessing for students with special needs like dyslexia. Students with ADHD love the games menu, which I was able to link using Seesaw templates. The games motivate participation and engagement. I just cannot imagine the ease with which I can give flipped learning experiences to different ability groups and differentiate the content. The multimodal presentation facilities provided by Seesaw are the best way to facilitate multiple means of representation. Seesaw has even helped me understand the interests of my students through their choices.”
- Manju Senan, Year 5 Grade Teacher, Victoria
“Seesaw has been the most amazing tool for connecting with our families and creating a community. As many speak English as an additional language, Seesaw’s translation tool has been amazing for us. It is fabulous to be able to share notices with families that also include photos, videos, and links to important websites. Families shared photos/videos with us on our recent school holiday break, and it has helped to be able to share student work via Seesaw with our families so they know what is happening at our new school”
- Rachael Lehr, Associate Principal, Western Australia
“Catering to a range of learning needs in my class has never been easier. I use math rotations almost daily and can easily differentiate between a student’s needs. At times, I have had students working several years below their peers, and others working well above. Seesaw allows me to create specific activities based on their needs.”
- Jessica Thorburn, Year 4 Teacher, Queensland
“When working as a digital technology specialist and teaching 20 classes across the school, Seesaw is an incredibly useful tool to track student learning through their digital portfolios. After a lesson, I was able to quickly go through student responses to Seesaw tasks that I had created and mark against my criteria, making assessing and reporting so much easier.”
- Eilis Smart, Digital Technology Specialist, Northern Territory
Equity & Access
Seesaw serves as a powerful tool for promoting equity and access in education by addressing the diverse needs of all learners, regardless of their backgrounds or abilities. Seesaw is designed to meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) content accessibility guidelines and equip teachers with the resources and tools they need to implement Universal Design for Learning (UDL), multiply their reach, and personalize learning to ensure that every learner receives the assistance they need to succeed. Seesaw also serves as a source of motivation for populations with ASD and ADHD, and facilitates the documentation of learning for students with special needs, supporting educators in implementing individual education plans (IEPs) and differentiating learning. Moreover, Seesaw breaks down barriers related to poverty, educational challenges, and language barriers by providing students and their families with equitable access to educational resources. For example, Seesaw supports multilingual students and their families by providing resources in multiple languages, fostering inclusive learning environments. By ensuring equitable support and attention to all students, Seesaw promotes inclusivity in education, ultimately empowering every learner to achieve at their fullest potential.
“Seesaw allows me to effectively provide differentiated learning tasks for my students. One of my students, who required 1:1 assistance to complete learning tasks, recorded themselves on Seesaw during a lesson where adult assistance was not available. The student was not able to write their response, but was able to explain their answer and draw their process on Seesaw and used topic language I had never heard them use before. Through the use of technology, this student was able to showcase an understanding that I would never have seen or known.”
- Marni-Lee Dickson, Year 5 Teacher, Victoria
“With all the different tools, students have a voice and choice as to how they want to showcase their learning. It engages all students and gives teachers important assessment data that can be used for reporting. Seesaw is a one-stop shop!”
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Mai Lu, Relieving Deputy Principal, New South Wales
“Teaching in a small remote community, I initially found it difficult to teach such a huge range of diverse learners. With the help of Seesaws and groups, I was able to set up differentiated learning for all areas of the curriculum. Within a week, I saw students’ confidence in their ability improve because the rest of the class didn’t know what level they were working on, so there was no shame involved in them doing slightly less difficult work.”
- Jessica Sluyter, Year 2-5 Classroom Teacher, New South Wales
“I have a large range of abilities in my Year 5 class. I have one student reading at the preschool level while others are reading at the Year 10 level. I use Seesaw to differentiate their work. This saves me time and energy which can be used to create more interesting lessons for all my 27 students.”
- Erillee Lyons, Year 5, Queensland
