I have used this app as a teacher for many years. Seesaw regularly takes feedback and updates their platform accordingly. It is a great tool to use in classrooms and is great for communicating with families.
[Sept 2025 - Another update, another disappointment. All the negative reviews still applicable. Bizarre. ] I am flabbergasted that it STILL doesn't use the Android back button! EVERY OTHER APP I HAVE DOES! Please, this app is such a pain to use because of this(in addition to other issues like zooming on photos) this should be a basic feature that should have been there from the start. Do not tell me to contact support; just pass this on please and let users know you're going to add it.
I have used Seesaw for nearly a decade. They often update the site to add more activities and lessons, make it more user friendly for students, teachers, and families. All messages and activities can now be translated into 100 languages. It's a wonderful tool for students to show what they know, learn new lessons, increase skill using technology. It's an excellent way to communicate between teachers and parents, and being able to show parents what their children are doing/learning.
Pathetic app. West of time in formatting. Portrait prints (pdf download) are coming out in landscape formats. Give option to upload scan copy of printed pdf as completed homework. Also, please ensure that homework given from school is visible to parents (may be you can control by read only version but should be visible). Currently it is not visible to parents.
*frustrated mom sigh* This app used to be okay last year (PreK - worked most of the time, w/minor issues). Now (K1) the app simply crashes and won't work, which forces me to UNISTALL and reinstall it every *UCKING day. I'm literally typing this review just before I do my daily reboot. Developers, can you fix it? No? Great! - Annoyed mom just trying to stay in the loop. 🥴
I'm having a lot of trouble using the Seesaw app on my phone. The screen is distorted, and I can't adjust or resize anything to fit properly. I really love using Seesaw, but the app has been very inconvenient lately. Every time I get a message, I have to switch to my computer just to respond or add something. At this point, the app is pretty much unusable for me, and I’m considering uninstalling it unless the issues are resolved soon.
I love this app, it is so great for the younger kids to keep track of what they need to do. My only wish is that the kids account had an option to click on an activity and hide it or move it to complete. Some days the activity tab has 25+ items, but only 6 for the day and the rest are old but we can't move/hide them so it takes time going through them every time you click an activity and go back to the tab. Also my camera is zoomed in when I take a pic to add and I can't zoom out. NEED HELP!!!
No implementation of universal back button/gesture. App just about does the job, but is unrefined. Feels like a poor ios port from 10 years ago. I'm not raising this with support as I dont require support. Just pass this on to the dev team that they need to pick up a phone and compare with almost any other app.
This app is so ridiculously terrible it's hard to know where to start. But, since I only have 500 characters, I'll start with the fact that it's now 2024 and basic navigation is impossible because the app doesn't obey back commands. I guess it must be too new a concept, seeing that the back command was only just introduced in 2008. September 2025 Update: Basic navigation still impossible. App deserves zero stars.
I hate hate hate hate HATE this app!! The entire right side of the screen is taken up by static and semi-static content that doesn't need nearly as much space as it's given. I mean really -- do you need an entire quarter of the page to display the teacher's name and class name, and another quarter pane to list three or fewer submenus for Inbox and Activities? What a colossal waste of useful space, especially when there are so many worksheets, etc. that need to be displayed on the left side of the screen. It's also not apparent what is the difference between items in the Journal vs. items in Activities that are marked "Done" or "In Progress." I wish the app allowed us to categorize and show/hide the items ourselves. Not every assignment requires a response to the teacher, so they sit and clutter up the Activities panel indefinitely. Printing from this app is a nightmare, even when you use the Print Activity option. It has to add the Seesaw branding to the worksheets, which shrinks the overall content of the worksheet and makes it more challenging to the student, especially younger ones (K-2nd) who are developing their handwriting. The teachers have had to email us the worksheets separately as PDFs because the app is so crappy. One good thing: it updates quickly on all of the other platforms when you update the status of an assignment. I'm accessing Seesaw from an iPad, laptop, Android phone and desktop and the cloud-based storage is very responsive.
