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Seesaw App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

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I hate itI hate it bc it’s for homework And one time I worked on my Arabic homework, and then it got me two copies so I tried to delete one but the teacher send me my work back for review One copy was empty, one was filled There is the other time when I spent about 30 minutes trying to record my reading but whenever I’m reading, I look at the screen and then... BOOM it exits the recording. That happend bc I recorded more than 5 mins but I took about an hour to try and record twice, once on a page but then it gets all the pages mixed up.Version: 7.4

Mise à jourDepuis la dernière mise à jour, l’application ne fonctionne pas bien: code d’erreur 429. Je suis très déçue et je cherche une autre application similaire..Version: 8.1.1

Decent for distance learningLike many, I’m sure, I have been using the Seesaw app for distance learning during the Covid-19 pandemic. Overall, the app has been beneficial for the teachers to share the lesson plans and we utilize the app similar to a social media (FB) platform by responding to the teacher’s posts with the completed assignments. Unfortunately , this is also why I only rate the app 3 stars. The issue is that once I’ve responded to an activity posted by the teacher, there are no indicators that the particular assignment was completed/responded by me resulting in a lot of time spent searching through activities that need to be completed. I liken this issue to having read an email in Outlook and then going back later for that one email but all emails are marked as “unread”. It would be excellent if the developer were to create a means for the completed assignments to be highlighted that it has been responded to/completed. Further, it would be additionally helpful if the app indicated that the instructor reviewed the students work and whether it needed to be redone..Version: 7.2.6

Videos can not be replayed and slow UISick of all these fake 5 stars reviews. The app itself is using dated design and slow web based core. Videos cannot be replayed until forced closing and reopening the app..Version: 8.26.1

Disappointed in the UpdatesI have been using Seesaw as a teacher for 7 years and I love Seesaw! However, many of the updates this year are not user friendly for teachers or families. The update that I am having the most difficulty with is the new way teachers comment on student work on my phone. It is just a running line and there is no way to view it before it is posted. I know you can edit it after it’s posted but it makes the process inconvenient. In previous versions you could see your whole message and were able reread it before posting. This makes me not want to check Seesaw posts on my phone which puts me behind on checking my students’ work. I always have my phone with me but I don’t always have a computer. Whenever I have a free moment I would check it. I know many teachers who prefer to check their Seesaw on their phones. Can we please go back to the old version of commenting on student work? I want my students and families to see my feedback in a timely manner..Version: 8.1.2

Horrible updateThe new update is terrible, when you reply under the “comment” section, the UX is less intuitive than before. It is less user friendly..Version: 8.1.0

ClassesApp is okay but I wish I could have access to all of my classes at once. Instead i have to sign out each time to sign into a different class. Stupid👎🏼.Version: 7.1.10

FrustratingThis app has had a flurry of updates lately and all that seems to have happened is the logo and colours have been changed. What a waste of time! How about fixing the fundamental usage issues that all the other reviews mention? Personally the one thing I’d like to see improved is the viewing of my child’s work. Have you tested the app on a phone? I have to zoom in to be able to read anything (if the image is high enough resolution) and then pan round to see it all like looking through a tiny hole while the rest of the screen is empty. Turning my phone to landscape actually makes the issue even worse somehow by embedding the tiny viewing hole into an unnecessary box..Version: 10.2.0

Fix the app!As a parent who has a child in elementary school it is ridiculous and a complete waste of time to constantly have to log out and then back in to toggle back and forth between Class and Family. This upgrade is garbage..Version: 8.1.4

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..Version: 7.5

I kind of like itI like seesaw I do it on a Crome book and it’s kind of hard to get my sparser to go somewhere in the text box like when I click 10 times somewhere it needs me to delete the space in between and there is one thing if you change it it would be nice if you could press the red x without having to delete all your work so you don’t always have to put it in draft I mean I like to draft my work and all but maybe in instead you could change it into a button that says delete so than people will know that that button deletes your work. Oh and happy st. Patrick’s Day I hope you find a four leaf clover 🍀today..Version: 7.6

Stupid!!!👿👿👿Glitches pictures smaller or bigger every time I touch the screen lock but still happens, also need to wait 1 hour to load or post your work even that the network connection is super good and very stable. And I can’t listen to some of my teacher’s feedback voice comments so a lot of my work has to be on draft, unless it is not a voice comment. It is good on the fact that you can post your work online so you can do homework during COVID 19 , but it wastes a lot of time. So I wouldn’t recommend it..Version: 7.2.6

Infuriating app and totally uselessHaving used Seesaw since the start of lockdown, I am still frustrated by the fact that nothing is intuitive. I try to use pinch to zoom and draw lines on the content. Once you zoom in, in stead of being able to just use multitouch you have to use the little navigation box at the top. In order to write something, I always need to create a text box and make it fit and it is absolutely useless on a phone as you cannot see a thing and once zoomed in, the only way you can navigate is using the tiny box at the top. You cannot change orientation in order to make things more legible. Teachers complain that scanned documents and picture cannot be read. There seems to be no interest to improve the app as there has not been a single change or update for the last 9 months. Finally, why does it not save drafts? My son has a few times lost all of his work, just because he accidentally clicked on the back key. You don’t even get a message to say “do you really want to delete what you have worked on for an hour?” But it is just gone. I seriously hate this app..Version: 7.5.5

Really Annoying bug!😡There’s this really annoying bug that needs to be fixed! When I go onto an activity the text boxes are small so I make them bigger. But then a second later they get even bigger without me making them and then when I try to make it smaller it gets bigger! Every time I try to make it smaller it gets even bigger and it is SOOOOOOO ANNOYING! I would give this app a 4/5 if this bug wasn’t here. Please fix this!🥺.Version: 7.7.5

Old version is betterAs a student, I use Seesaw very frequently. There were ever-so-slight bugs in the previous version, which I didn’t mind. However, when this update came, my work became 2 times as hard. First off, before, when you swipe out of the app during an activity, when you come back it says: ‘You have unfinished work. Do you want to continue where you left off? Edit or Delete’. Now that function is removed. Because of this, I had to start over on my English Assessment. Furthermore, typing is more difficult. Copying and pasting is far more complicated now, and just trying to edit a text box is annoying. Sometimes the flashing line shows that you are editing a text box, but there is no keyboard. You can’t edit the text box because of that. Then you have to go to a different slide, and if the text box is not saved (it’s new) then it’s deleted. This is especially annoying if I’m typing a long paragraph and it gets deleted. My final problem the new way things work. I liked the old one. The messages look weird, the animation of entering a text box is ugly and it’s just overall worse. Please do something to fix AT LEAST ONE of the problems I listed, or I will steal your cookies..Version: 8.0.4

So annoying with multiple childrenHow you can have a school app that doesn’t allow access to more than one child without logging in and out for separate children is beyond me. You have to either check the separate accounts each day or just miss info making the whole thing pointless. For families with 1 child it seems pretty user friendly..Version: 9.8.0

New Messaging Update is AwfulI LOVE this app and have been using it for 7 years. I was so excited when they said they were merging class and family into 1 and updating. The update is awful with messages though. I am a kinder teacher and it used to be so easy to find and message parents for my class. Now I have to jump through a ton of hoops to even create a message. I can’t just scroll through parent names of my class to send a message I have to actually know their names and search which often times in the beginning of the year I don’t off they top of my head. I have parents emailing that they can’t write a message to me or reply. They used to easily be able to just type under any message I sent and it would go privately to me. I have watched the video on this over and over but it doesn’t match what they see on their end. I love the idea of group messages but the rest of this is garbage. I was also hoping families would be able to add to their children’s journal since they help with the homework at home. Now they are having to log between student and family accounts. I hyped up this app to my families like I do every year but they are frustrated and not impressed this year. I hope they rework this or go back to the old user friendly way or we may have to find another program..Version: 8.0.1

HoyaIt’s sucks balls like ur mom.Version: 7.7.8

Disappointing changesReturning to Remote Learning in Melbourne, Australia meant we upgraded our Seesaw free subscription to a School subscription. Unfortunately we are extremely disappointed as Seesaw have changed the video upload length from 10 minutes to 5 minutes. This has caused much angst for our teachers who are trying to record explicit mini lessons, as well as for our students and parents who now only have access to 5 minute instructions. Our staff who are uploading up to 5 video lessons a day are very frustrated with the changes. I can’t reiterate how disappointed and frustrated we are with the changes. We really hope Seesaw can take on this feedback and the engineering team can change the video upload time back to 10 minutes..Version: 7.3.1

Vincent gariepyJE AIME PAS😡😡.Version: 7.2.7

No functionality for multiple classes or multiple children in the same householdLog off and sign in with code is required for different classes and different students I the same home. With 3 children from the same K-6 school during COVID, the 9digit login needs to be facilitated by an adult every time the child use case changes. This prevents the children from being autonomous and independent. I’ve got post it notes with their codes on the wall. Annoying. Also no functionality or feature for parent-teacher messaging..Version: 7.2.6

Literal dumpster fireOh my hecking god seesaw here’s a list of issues: your work doesn’t save when closing the app, you can’t have a video be more than five minutes, you can’t add pictures to notes, it takes a while for higher definition pictures to load, you get kicked from any class you were in at the end of the year, uploading videos for some reason takes up memory, there’s no cropping, you can’t paste photos, gifs don’t work and photos on slide one auto lock..Version: 7.7.2

You guys have to allow for local storageThere is a huge flaw in your system... unless I’m missing something, if the internet goes down (a daily occurrence now that everyone is working from home) and your child is trying to upload their work you have two choices: 1) delete and start over - throwing away whatever your child has just done, or 2) turn off the device stop school for the day and wait for the internet to come back on so you can upload and go on to the next task. Maybe you could add an option to store the item locally and have an “upload later” button. Just a thought. There are many other frustrations with the UI but that is the killer flaw right now..Version: 7.2.6

BadI do not like it.Version: 7.7.2

Needs ability to zoom imagesOur teachers send images of work for the student but the app doesn’t not allow you to zoom in so you can see the image larger or more clearly. That just seems basic and this app doesn’t do it..Version: 6.1

Why I don’t like seesaw and why I do like seesawI don’t like the new update because all my friends can change their profile picture and I can’t and when I make a spelling mistake I have to delete everything just to fix it. Why I like seesaw A fun app for school and has really cool fonts. Seesaw also has a cool feature like you can make your own activity by drawing or thanking your teacher..Version: 8.11.0

Reduce/customise notificationsThis is a great app. The only issue I have is that you get a notification every time a post made by the teacher for everyone to see, is liked by other parents. I’ve tried turning off the push notifications but it has had me missing out on important messages from the teacher. If there was an option to turn these notifications off or customise the alerts, this app would be even greater. The same goes for the Seesaw Family app..Version: 7.5.5

Not loving the update.Not loving the update. Why make it harder to add a caption? It was all so streamlined before.Version: 7.0.1

I’ve never hated an app moreWe have to use this for my kindergartener’s remote school. It crashes every single time we try to open a new work/activity. It doesn’t save your spot in scrolling so you have to scroll all the way each time. There is no way to make an activity go away from the “waiting a response” unless you respond to it but some don’t need a response like read aloud, so I hate that those don’t go away making it look like you still have many activities still waiting to be done. Not all activities have the same options like video, or upload, or to draw, etc. My kid’s work would take leas time if it didn’t take forever dealing with this poorly designed and glitchy app. Did I say I hate this app?? Yeah, HATE it..Version: 7.2.6

LoginHi, Is there anyway to make logging in easier for families with multiple login details? Maybe an option to save login and password details?.Version: 7.4.1

AwfulThis 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..Version: 7.5

Ok but a few thingsSo this app was a really good one but the update is a bit confusing for me and my child here’s why. 1- looking through stuff can be difficult as the old one is more easier .2- uploads quicker , I would probably be more easier to use if it took less time to load . 3- while looking through messages can be time consuming as when I try to message my daughters teacher I have to scroll down a long way to find their account. Thanks for reading :).Version: 8.5.0

¿¿I don’t know man??This thing is weird. We use this at school and it is laggy. I don’t even know how to do the activities. I recommend not to use this app. Some people love this app and some people hate this. I am not saying you shouldn’t use this, I am just giving you a heads up of what you are going to get when you get this app. Ok, just listen to me. This also uses up a lot of data. Of course they won’t tell you because then why would you get the app. By for now.Version: 7.7.9

No longer a great toolI would have recommended this to anyone in education but since the update my blood pressure has significantly risen. Error messages and crashing pages galore. So sad, it was such a fantastic way to connect the classroom with home..Version: 8.0.9

Ur mum likes ur dadIt’s doo doo.Version: 7.0.6

Fix itIt worked great for a day. Here are my issues: - The messaging system stopped working. Can’t read or send any messages. - Pictures are hard to view, zooming in cuts them off. We should be able to click and download. Unreliable and disappointing..Version: 8.1.2

NotificationsThe app itself isn't bad, but the notifications are an absolute pain. You should have the option to only receive notifications when the teacher uploads something, at present it notifies of everything so whenever another parent 'likes' something you're tagged in, you get a notification. Turn off notifications, you miss what the school posts, turn on notification's and you're notified 30 plus times about the same post when each parent likes it. Painful..Version: 8.1.3

Seesaw should would be allowed to install againIf use this dumb app and I don’t feel single good thing about it all I feel is anger and the update is annoying because it’s now harder to get the caption and I hate that the stupid app has the delete button and sent back button because of the because of the lockdown!.Version: 7.2.6

Who made thisIt’s so bad I can’t believe people like this it’s just bad I had to do it and it sucks crap.Version: 7.3.0

Just bad.Stupidest app I’ve ever used for a long time..Version: 7.2.6

Needs function for multiple childrenThe app works fine once you get used to the system. It’s annoying when you have more than one child having to log in and out of different accounts. Wastes lots of time. It would be better if you could sign in multiple children and toggle between them as needed..Version: 7.5.5

Work in progressSeesaw is great for casually keeping parents in the loop with their kids work in school and some limited amount of outside of school learning. It is not great in how it organizes content or in how it lets you search for content. It is mainly set up in a blog style format putting the most recent assignments at the top. Unfortunately by default it resets you to the newest item in the “news feed”. This can make navigating to old assignments very difficult. There is a calendar view for completed assignments, but not for assignments in the “news feed” queue. Some schools are trying to stretch seesaw into their primary distance learning vehicle and that is clearly not its intended purpose. In order for that to work the basic interface needs to be evaluated and updated..Version: 7.3.1

Student lockdownWas working well until update stopped working with all devices under iOS 10. Now can't do or open any activities for the class as we have an older iPad.Version: 7.2.6

NotificationsI am unable to access my notifications! They just keep piling up and I am missing assignments from my teacher. I have over 60 notifications that I’ve never seen! I have to ask my friends for the assignments..Version: 7.0

SeesawAs a teacher I would really love the app if you could edit the students work and then approve it right away without having to go back into the feed. Also it would be nice if you could group all the assignments in the feed when you are looking through so you could get marks easier..Version: 7.6.4

Needs more scheduling optionsI 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..Version: 7.4.1

Poorly coded with a terrible UILike most projects this one probably started with good intentions that have gotten lost along the way. My child’s work is frequently disbanded by the app. Uploading files on recent or devices that have a relatively new release appears to frustrate the software possibly due to the files larger sizes as the camera inevitably captures higher resolutions - specific to video. My child has a restricted access to their device, owing to not wishing to fetter an unlocked iPad to a child. This results in files successfully uploading from the ‘admin’ level user more often than the child’s account. The contradiction being that you take steps as a parent to safeguard your child by electing an account with parental control only for the app written for the child not to lend itself to the functionality of which it’s audience’s require. Put simply, could do better. SeeSaw should see the teacher at the end of the lesson..Version: 8.3.0

A bit clunky. No use if you have two small kids.The design is a bit clunky and it’s often quite hard to figure out what you need to do. My school uses this to communicate with me about what my 6 year old needs to do at home, class messages etc. It does the job. I also have a 4 year old who just started school, but I can’t be logged in twice. Or even switch easily between accounts. So my wife has my daughter’s account on her phone and I have my son’s. I’m sorry, I can’t be the only one who thinks this seems really stupid and a big pain? I guess if you get used to it, it’s ok. But overall it could be a lot slicker, and easier to find things. Why are there 3 tabs at the bottom, but a random Messages icon at the top? What’s the difference between Messages and Notifications? Why does Upload include photos, when Photos doesn’t include photos… it’s just the camera (label it “Camera”?).Version: 8.1.8

Seesaw is stupid, TEACHERS PLEASE READHello! Those of you who think Seesaw has a perfect Instagram- like setup, and super fun and easy, you are wrong! Seesaw is annoying. The computer Seesaw is better than the app one, but they are still stupid. Teachers, kids are allow to make random videos. Just imagine the inappropriate issues your trouble-making kiddos would do! Plus, there’s no preset comments. Those trouble-making kiddos in your class could swear or hurt someone’s feelings. It also encourages kids to sneak and watch classmate’s videos instead of doing work. There’s no way to ban video making. Kids reading this, you don’t want to have Seesaw, it’s little-kiddie. The grade ranges that do enjoy it is K-1, 2nd+ just hate it. Schoolagy (did I spell it right?) is more ages 3rd grade + and is perfect! It’s harder to make videos than just tapping a button, and you can like videos. Kids have fun doing that. Teachers can also make great videos. Teachers, if you prefer Microsoft Stream, when you are showing your students how to get to it, there will be a little button in the corner to view the video on Microsoft Stream! Teachers, video making on Schoolagy (if I didn’t spell it write, I’m sorry) is amazing. Do scratchy sound issues like on Seesaw. If you are a K-1 teacher, use Seesaw (it’s the best you got) Thank you for reading.Version: 7.7.8

A few flawsNow my child has got used to the formatting system within the app she is doing ok. She has to use my iPad though as the app was very clunky and difficult to use on her own kindle fire. We have one major flaw though. Sometimes, when changing between apps, say switching to safari to watch a video on bitesize, we will switch back to seesaw and discover the activity page she had been working on will have closed and therefore any work done will not have saved. There is no auto save. This is very soul destroying for a 7 year old. It also happened sometimes when the app had accidentally been closed, but not force closed. Open back up and the work has all gone. Please add in auto saving somehow?.Version: 7.3.0

Ridiculous issues.Kept having an issue with my daughters homework where the app would freeze whenever she tried to use the rubber. Had to restart the app to unfreeze it. Usually it decides to save the work done so you can edit it, and when it does, there are random marks on her work that we need to rub out (presumably from where the app display has crashed, but actions are still actioned). Sometimes it doesn’t even save and you lose 15-20 minutes of work! This is ridiculous!.Version: 10.4.0

SeesawThis app is terrible ! i don’t recommend it to anyone !.Version: 7.2.6

THIS UPDATE IS THE WORSTI don’t know who thought it would be a good idea to make students have to sign in and out of their “student account” every time they log in (instead of when they are ready to post) because it is the most INCONVENIENT thing ever. When I have multiple students doing an activity they need to go back and forth to the QR poster, sign out and sign in just to be able to post. We were able to hand off the iPad before. Horrible. Also with the update, you are not able to go back and add drawing to your post once you have recorded. An example of this would be that we do fluency passages. The students record themselves reading, listen to their recording and rate how they read. Now after your record you can’t do anything else besides submit it. Love seesaw. Hate this update. Please fix these things ASAP for teachers sanity..Version: 7.1.5

Not great for admin/feedbackAfter coming from the world of Teams and OneNote, I’m finding the overall lack of cataloguing and file and folder management in Seesaw very frustrating. Having only a single folder to store activities, rather than folders in folders created a very cluttered storage space. Also when it comes to giving feedback and writing on student work, something that I do often in one note, the pen experience is almost on usable in how wobbly and messy the strokes become compared with every other note taking app on the App Store. The only reason I’m still using seesaw is because I’ve been forced to, if the cataloguing and administration functionality was improved significantly and the pen writing improved significantly I might actually somewhat want to use seesaw..Version: 7.7.1

Text editing is so bad it offsets all the goodThis would be a fine program - the messaging works ok, the work submission is ok, etc - but the text editing in text boxes awful beyond description. Clicking on a text box may open the keyboard but then clicking inside the text to change cursor position as often seems to close the keyboard as select a point. When it does move the cursor, it is often visually one or two characters from where the text entry or editing occurs. The standard ‘hold space then scroll cursor’ doesn’t work. Mostly fine, text editing it so ghastly that the experience of using the app is awful, very bad, no good..Version: 8.0.8

DO NOT TRUSTI was either hacked or the app developers thought it was funny to message peers inappropriate posts and words using MY account. Please DO NOT get this!.Version: 7.2.6

Not so greatI can’t get in because I did the QR code and didn’t work.Version: 6.2.1

Not able to see my son's progressThis has to be one of the most frustrating apps I've ever used. Everything was fine last year I was able to see my son's progress. However with the new updates I'm unable to see anything in his classroom or anything in general. Do not download this app,unless you want a headache!.Version: 8.1.5

New UpdateI’ve loved seesaw, I’ve used it to connect with my kids teachers for a few years now. I absolutely HATE the new update and everyone I’ve talked to about it does too. You can’t click and zoom in on pics, when you zoom in on the frame that’s there it’s next to impossible to move the picture around. I feel like I’m always searching to find messages. The message center looks and feels like complete chaos and it feels like it takes forever for things to load. If you don’t change it back at least fix the picture problem..Version: 8.1.1

The app is designed to not identify gender? Not cool.The app is designed to not identify gender? Not cool..Version: 8.6.0

Update is a downgrade!I’m a teacher and the update is far less user friendly. I am unable to upload pdfs directly from my phone to the app, before we were given this option. Now I have to log on to a desktop/ laptop to do this, this is extremely inconvenient and frustrating as we were able to do this before on our phones within seconds, at any time of the day. Also there is still no option to upload word documents- this should have been addressed. The message function is less user friendly and notifications of replies are not always showing up on the Home Screen. I had to send individual messages to each new parent so they could contact me back- previously an announcement would enable this. This was also time consuming. Several of my colleagues have also commented on how much slower the app is running. It’s so disappointing when an app that functions very well is changed for the worse!!.Version: 8.1.0

I NEED HELPSeesaw will not download I wanna go in to the app It won’t let me I need help to go in it for my class I got rid of all my photos and I tried but I did not let me 🥺🥺.Version: 7.4

It’s OkI am a student at school and am using Seesaw for home learning. I given this app three stars as I like the way your teacher can mark it and give class announcements, but I didn’t give five stars because you can’t message your teacher directly unless you comment on the work and I think that that isn’t very good as it isn’t very direct because you might want to speak to your teacher privately and not have students being able to see it.Version: 7.3.0

Why I Hate Seesaw1. You have to make text boxes and drag them to where you want them to be. 2. Drawing is hard- It has this feature where you can a draw, but it is so hard to use. I constantly have to rub out. 3. You can hardly talk to your friends. This became popular in lockdown and the only way you can communicate with your friends is commenting on work that the teacher has shared. And the teacher has all the freedom to delete comments. A kid can’t even delete HIS/HER OWN COMMENTS! 4. I usually take about 1 hour to do ONE PIECE of work on this stupid app. 5. It causes so much stress that sometimes I have to delay lunch/dinner to finish a piece of work. 6. This is the worst reason. This reason is so bad it could stop your child using the app. YOU CAN ONLY HAVE LOGIN DETAIL FOR ONE CHILD! So if you have more than one child, and only one device to use Seesaw, the app is unusable for all except one of your children And that’s why I hate Seesaw! The fact that this is the go-to-platform for so many schools just show how out-of-touch they are with modern ways of education. Why is it inflicted on us! If you’re a teacher and you have students to educate in lockdown, just use Education City! It is INFINITY times better than Seesaw.Version: 7.6

I hate itNever before has an app give me physical pain but ohhhh boy, this one wanted to!Whether it’s an irritating interface or a dis functional link, this app is useless!And I haven’t even mentioned the lessons, although that isn’t the apps fault so I guess I’ll point out how USELESS the notifications are!It claims everything is a new “activity” including comments and likes, but then when there actually is a new “activity” it doesn’t notify you!Overall this app has made a horrible situation even more horrible and I do not recommend!.Version: 7.4.1

So badI cant even begin to tell you how bad this app is..Version: 7.2.6

SeasawThis app is terrible I don’t think anyone should waste there time on it.Version: 7.2.7

Where did it go???Since update yesterday I can’t use it just a blank white screen.Version: 10.1.0

Great tool… but what about french?I looove this tool. Is is complete, simple and fun for my students. The only thing, is that this year, I teach french as a second language. Using this app, in english, would be controversial. Are you working on a french option? I would also suggest the option to translate the messages in many languages, so parents from an other country can understand. 😉.Version: 8.1.0

A bit shonkySeesaw is invaluable to help communication between school and home, but it's really confusing and the recent upgrade has made it so much worse. The worst thing in the new version though is the horrible user experience when trying to look at a photo. Before we could look at the photo full-screen and zoom and pan around no bother. Now we have to look through a tiny frame, and zooming and panning is very limited. Sort it out Seesaw!.Version: 8.1.1

It’s great until....Seesaw sounds like one of the best online schooling apps but after a couple days you’ll soon realise that it is a pain to use . In the past I have deleted half an hour of work with no way of getting it back and the writing system is worse then the one on zoom . There’s no way of doing straight lines no arrows no reminders for when work should be handed in . I’ve been using this app for months now and I hate it more every day . It got to the point where I had to use notes to write out pages of work . DO NOT RECOMMEND!!!!!.Version: 7.6.6

Buggy and UnreliableOur 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..Version: 7.4.1

NotificationsCan’t turn off email notifications, the setting doesn’t do anything..Version: 8.1.1

Nice but over priced for what you get.The extras, are not worth what they are asking. I paid it hoping to find it to be super helpful, but the price does not at all match what you get. Disappointing, especially since it is glitchy in those areas too. Before you go charging over $100 for something, you may want it working properly? Update: When you enter an activity page, and add page, you should be able to upload in each individual tab a new document. I don’t want to have to edit, and create all the content before I can even enter it into the app. It needs to be more functional. Like, upload option in each tab..Version: 7.7.1

New update problems.I love this app however since the new update I can’t click on items the teacher has sent through and zoom in to read them. I am an iPhone user and now if I try to zoom in on a newsletter it’s so blurry it can’t be read. I used to click on the newsletter and it would go to full screen. I don’t own a computer and now it’s impossible for me to read newsletters and term planners ect..Version: 8.0.1

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..Version: 7.4.1

Needs improvementIt’s been 2 years but they still haven’t implemented group assignments (assigning to a group of students rather than individual students). They also haven’t implemented the multiple select option which would make it easy to save the same thing into other activities (not other pages of the same activity). I mean there are literally a. Bunch of feature suggestions on their website that are common sense but haven’t been implemented. Till then, I give 3 stars because Seesaw is still good in some ways and it saves lots of paper while being fun ..Version: 7.7.8

BadWhen i change something it will get out of the app and delete my work.Version: 7.3.0

Frustrating and StressfulFrom the start of lockdown using seesaw was so annoying when, you can’t get the task done or your having internet problems. My internet was horrible so we weren’t able to get any tasks done. You couldn’t ask questions and get an Immediate answer you would have to wait about thirty minutes for a response from your teacher to respond for you still no able to understand this was a very hard to finish tasks on this ap.Version: 7.6.11

Best app everThis app is so bad that when i touch the screen it goes to the home screen thanks whoever made this app so much.Version: 8.25.0

See saw is shtTake my advice and DON’T USE IT. This app is easily the dumbest home schooling app ever. I was using in primary school and throughout lockdown and it was very infuriating as when you are trying to drag text boxes it will extend them instead of moving them. You also have 1000’s of notifications on your device and your work isnt sorted into folders. Also i was reading other reviews and many people were saying you can’t record video longer than 5 minutes. Overall review:0/sht out of 1/10 Edit:also when your teacher lets everyone in the class see each others work kids could cheat. Maybe you can ket kids see each others work after they completed their work. Then i might give it 3 stars.Version: 7.8.0

StressfulAs a parent that has had the torture of using the seesaw application daily for 3 weeks now, for two kids that are home due to school closures during coronavirus, this application is awful. It’s not intuitive enough for my kids to use on their own and half the time I’m clicking between several sections to try and locate the correct lesson or video. The lessons we have completed are mixed in with the lessons we still need to complete unless the teacher goes in and archives the old ones. The whole application is a huge stressful, confusing mess. Let alone having multiple children that need to use it and you have to scan two separate codes every time you want to switch kids. Thinking about withdrawing them and homeschooling because that would be better than having to use seesaw every day..Version: 7.2.5

It fineIt’s good,, but there’s some glitches and also you should be able to leave classes because sometimes you need to And also you should be able to make a new student account without needing a code Not recommended that much, also if you just want to make a grou p With you friends, don’t use it. I know it isn’t the main purpose of this app,but pls.Version: 8.6.1

Unhappy 2nd time aroundOur school used the free version of Seesaw during the last remote learning phase. During this time we were able to upload video lessons of up to 10 minutes. Since then our school has paid $7000 au dollars to upgrade to the full version and now the limit on videos is only 5 minutes which is hardly any time to explicitly teach any concepts. I can’t even re-use videos I’ve previously used on Seesaw as now they are too large even though they are sitting in activities I’ve already saved. We are most unsatisfied with this change and feel that is the actual opposite to an upgrade. It would be good if you could please increase the capacity to upload videos ASAP for all our stressed out teachers in Vic Australia. Thank you in advance!.Version: 7.3.1

Terrible security and student privacySeesaw uses a single login credential (unique hash / ID) for students to log in if schools configure it to. If these are shared, as some generally naive teachers may do for every student to their entire class, they cannot be reset / regenerated by the student (or parent). The result is (as in our case) kids, even in 3rd grade, “hacking” or threatening to “hack” each other. Absolutely terrible. This is where your kids put their class work, comments, and private communications with their teachers. I am disappointed that my kids’ school uses it. When I log in as my child I see nothing in account settings that would allow me to change the login mode to email/password. This choice should not be teacher-controlled once accounts are given to students. Frankly this choice should not be available as it is inherently insecure. Schools, parents, students (etc) have a tendency to print spreadsheets of credentials and leave them sitting around..Version: 8.1.0

Very poor!My children’s school use this app, to allow us parents to see their progress etc but I have to say this is the poorest app ever made. The photos are the size of a postage stamp for a start, when a teacher posts something it’s gives about five notifications saying the same thing or nothing at all! I absolutely hate it! I’m sure a lot of people love it as per your reviews and it maybe down to user error on the teachers part. All of the other parents say the same thing so I’m absolutely astonished that this app has such a glowing reputation!.Version: 9.8.0

Notification issuesI usually love this app but lately i haven’t been receiving notifications when i have a message from parents which is the main reason i use it. I still receive an email but nothing that would immediately catch my attention. Are usually.Version: 7.2.6

Cannot access Teacher account and my Children’s account at the same time!Since the update, I am no longer able to access my teacher account & my children’s account at the same time. I am now forever logging in and out of the app m!! I have to login in so I can upload work/notes for my students and then log out and log into my own children’s account so I can access their class information. Before I could have them both available at the same time - Very frustrating!!!!!!.Version: 10.2.0

Changes to messenger are terribleRecent changes to messaging are terrible. Not user friendly at all and hard to find who you are sending messages too. Way better the old way!.Version: 8.1.0

Amalgamated app is worseBefore when seesaw had the family and class apps separated things functioned very well. Now the full amalgamation just makes everything harder to work with. Swapping between accounts for parent and each individual student is the most frustrating thing in the world. Having to assist children with homework is already a nuisance. Is it an exercise to let the child learn or an exercise to test if the family has the time to support the child with an iPhone app? If I could I would delete this..Version: 8.1.7

Maybe.I gave seesaw 3 stars because, well, to me, Seesaw is like “class instagram” I like how you can post things educational and that you can get in touch with your class mates on a device. But, I’d not do “teacher approvals.” It can take days to write a comment or days just to have a post be approved. Also, How come parent’s comments have to approved too? It makes no sense. It’s not like their going to post anything bad. Also, parents can’t post either it would be fun if they did. But still, just for the kids that want mothers and fathers to post on seesaw. I hope reading this response will have you with suggestions. This is just me though, I think seesaw is good though..Version: 5.7.2

Please update your appI enjoy having this app to see my children’s updates. However, could you please make some adjustments for parents of multiple children. Logging in and out all the time is so frustrating and time consuming, that’s if your able to find the log in details. This would be such a great help, I’ve spoken to many parents that would agree with me and our school do not have access to the ‘family’ app version. It would keep it simple if you could just have the one app..Version: 8.1.7

The worse app ever😏I hate this app it need to be a deleted because it gives me madness because if this app it ew today it give me bad anxiety because I have to do gym😒😡.Version: 7.8.2

Can’t have two children logged in at onceThis is a major software flaw. Most families have siblings in the same school. Not being able to keep both logged in means that you will always miss notifications unless you remember to log in /log out /log in to the other every single day. Inside the tool it’s great. But this so desperately needs to be fixed!!!!.Version: 8.1.4

Better Apple Pencil/Stylus support badly neededApp is slowly getting better and better. We started out rough with lots of lost school work. Trying to finish school work within the app with our second grader was an exercise in patience. That seems to be largely fixed but it seems like the app bogs down depending on how many drawing objects there are on a page and objects in general. We finally bought an Apple Pencil to make it easier to do work in the app but there are still problems: 1) Palm is constantly triggering the tools on the bottom and right side of the app. Palm also triggers markings. This was the case even without the pencil. 2) Writing sometimes is not fluid, skips, or doesn’t register or is DELAYED. Almost seems like the app is freezing or bogged down. (We have the latest iPad and pencil). We know it is not an issue with the pencil and IS an issue with the app because when we use the stylus with other writing apps it is like a whole other world in terms of usability and performance. PLEASE work on making this a better experience and changing the interface design to be more user friendly!.Version: 7.5.5

Important note the the editorI clearly state that you need an improvement that know one ever wanted to say. Why is it that you can only upload images one time and have to wait so long for another? I want you to make that app able to let you upload anytime anywhere. Because right now I need to finish my class activities or else! I don’t take this as a joke, seriously. Please let us upload images anytime anywhere. You already have responded to others so respond to mines please so we can do activities without app problems and also fix when you upload something the screen goes blank! It’s all white. This is extremely important or am just gonna feel like why did my teacher used seesaw to upload images when you only have one chance. So make us able to upload images whenever we want. That’s what I just need for the app. Make sure to read this carefully! Bye!.Version: 7.7.6

STUPIDTHIS IS SO HARD I HAVE TI DO THIS 24/7 AND I CAN’T COMPLETE A SINGLE QUESTION EVEN ONE QUESTON.Version: 7.8.6

This sucks it’s not good for mathIt sucks for sure.Version: 7.8.0

POOR CUSTOMER SERVICEWhen you run into issues, you CAN NOT call them for support. You have to do it via email and it takes DAYS to get real issues resolved. I usually get ONE response a day from their support people. Case in point, I opened a ticket with them on a server error we keep getting on Sept. 27 (over a week ago) and I am no closer to getting this resolved (it is now October 5th), then when I opened the ticket. As a support person, I am used to calling in issues and getting it resolved either on that phone call, or shortly there after (maybe a day or two later). This has happened now mulitiple times since we became a Seesaw For Schools building. The teachers who use Seesaw, absolutely love it, and I understand why, but coming from a support perspective, my view of Seesaw is quickly diminishing!!!!!!!!!!!.Version: 5.2.2

Poor UI designUsing the app is an infuriating experience, and the overall design is outdated and amateurish. They need to fire their UX/UI team..Version: 8.0.1

My reviewIt’s alright however there are a few things that aren’t the best that I’ve discovered. First off it is extremely glitchy and makes it very hard to do my work. Secondly you can only make videos under 5 minutes which makes it quite difficult when we are doing science experiments or anything really. Thirdly it’s very slow. Seesaw takes about 20 minutes to load sometimes and that’s not exaggerating. All in all pretty good app just needs a few updates thanks for your time :).Version: 7.7.8

See saw feed back-Half the time in homeschooling when I need to take a photo of my work it glitches and my screen is completely blank and white. So, I have to get rid of the tab of see saw then go back into the app, and my photo will be there. Right now I’m talk j g pictures but I have to deal with seesaw doing this. But overall seesaw is a good app but there are some glitches and things you need to fix up. Thanks. :).Version: 7.7.6

I hate it because its literally ruining fun at homeI hate this app because it makes you do homework in quarantine.Version: 7.2.6

Seesaw deeply flawedThe 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..Version: 7.4.1

Poor serviceHave been unable to access messages in in box for two weeks now. Important part of communication with parents and Whanau. No reply from seesaw help or fix for problem from 3 requests. Not even an acknowledgement of receiving email. Very disappointed..Version: 5.7.4

Photo size issue.I love seesaw and so do my students’ parents; however, since the a recent update our uploaded photos appear smaller and if you post multiple photos everyone photo from the first one is even smaller. It’s not just on the iPhone, it’s on the computer website as well. The the multiple photos are tiny. I’m talking 2cm in height and they are surrounded by white. This is the first issue we have even had after using seesaw for many years. I hope it can be resolved..Version: 7.0.3

CrashesContinually crashes while my son is trying to do work. So frustrating!.Version: 7.2.6

Great app but...Great app except the part where they’ve removed the option to ‘like’ a piece of work etc. Now you can only comment on it rather than liking/pressing the heart button. For both a parent and child with anxiety and autism the ‘like’ button took away that overwhelming need to comment ‘appropriately’ but allowed us to still engage with the teacher/class. If you could add this feature back in it would help neurological and mental disabilities immensely, such a small change can have a dramatic impact..Version: 7.5.4

SeesawThis app is horrible, it would let my friends and me post our work for no reason. Don’t get this for your class or for you children. It deletes things with out your permission do not recommend.Version: 8.14.0

Average appSeesaw is a basic app, not especially easy to use. Needs more functionality built in - remove previous years, archive journals, clear log ins. It is okay but a long way from great..Version: 10.4.0

A little annoying but overall good.Pros: This app is good for homeschool during this pandemic. It helps kids do there work properly. The teachers can send in tasks and we like this. Cons: This app is getting a little bit annoying. When we use it to make pictures bigger it doesn’t do it, so we try again and the image goes away. The text boxes are a pain, especially because we're using a phone..Version: 7.6

Some good points but flawed, could be betterAs a parent there are things I like about this app but there are a few big flaws: 1. You can only be logged into one child’s account at a time. School have set up accounts for both of my children. I have to log in and out of their accounts to be able to access the other, which is a pain because this means I miss notifications, plus the app doesn’t remember log in details. This would prevent me from recommending the app to others. Howeve,r if this was resolved so I could remain logged in to more than one account this would be a game changer and I would recommend it to others. 2. It isn’t possible to mark activities as done without uploading work/photos/comments etc. For some of tasks set this isn’t necessary or they are optional and so they remain classified as To-Do. I would like to be able to mark them completed without having to artificially upload comments etc. this would be much tidier. Currently it feels very messy given the limited interface..Version: 8.1.7

App Crashes ContonuouslyWhenever adding pictures to a journal the app crashes. Couldn’t add more than 3 photos to the same post..Version: 8.16.0

Seesaw is not the bestI am a student currently using seesaw and this app is great accept for a few things. The first thing is that there are things on the side and bottom that allow you to change from writing something to drawing and ect this is great but the problem I have with this is that it often gets in the way of reading things that are on the side or bottom behind it. What I am saying is that you should make a way to hide it and bring it back. The second thing that annoys me about this app is that the bar that pops up on the right side of your phone to change the colour of text or your pencil is witch NEVER GOES AWAY and it blocks a lot of my vision of the screen. Maybe this problem could be fixed if I had a phone with a bigger screen but I don’t. The third and final thing that I want changed about this app is that you can not change the brush size when using any one of the drawing tools. To fix this problem you could maybe make it so if you hold your finger on a drawing tool at the bottom of the screen then it will bring up a options menu. I hope this app gets better so I can give it a 5 star review. Edit: maybe also change it so when someone who is not the teacher comments on your work it doesn’t count as a notification because at the moment I get a ton of notifications of classmates commenting something irrelevant to me or my work (and they don’t even comment on my work and I still get the notifications.)..Version: 7.2.7

MessagesI think this app is useful, but I also think it could be much better. The messaging system isn’t fast. What I mean is, to see a message you click on it, but then to hide that message, (as you can’t delete)! You have to click of it then hold down which doesn’t always work first time , it may actually go back to the message. Eventually you can hide the message. The message you’ve just looked at isn’t highlighted, so you have to go top to bottom, or bottom to top, as you will loose track easily, as all the messages start pretty much with the same thing. Four times who the message is from and two times that it’s an announcement. Rarely what the message is actually about. It is time consuming. It may be just a school set up thing, but whatever it is, it’s confusing and things are easily missed..Version: 8.13.0

Seesaw Is LaggyI know this may be just me and I know it’s a great app but whenever I try to do maths it literally just lags me and I have to wait like for an hour for it to just go on that page so it’s hard to finish it . Sometimes you don’t even know if you moved the part so it just happens to be a big waste of time . I’m a Year 4 Student and it just pisses me off when this happens . However , seesaw is still a great app , even if its laggy or doesn’t allow you to pick the same colour because of the colour tool ..Version: 7.7.5

Great, BUT…Great platform for connecting home and classroom BUT… why isn’t there a way to be signed in to (and therefore get notifications for) two student accounts? As far as I’m aware, I need to log out completely of my son’s account to be able to log in and see my daughter’s account and vice versa. What a pain! And I’m bound to miss notifications. Please create an update to allow this!!.Version: 7.7.3

.Why cancel this app I hate school.Version: 7.7.2

Needs lots of work to be goodThis app is what the teachers are using for homeschooling at my kids school. It is okay but needs a lot more work to make it more user friendly. It’s extremely slow at times. You have to write on it a lot and it can be very delayed and not even work sometimes. We have been stuck on the same assignment for hours because it won’t allow us to write properly. Please hire some people to fix this app and make it better!.Version: 7.5.5

Parents love it!This is our second year using Seesaw. Parents love it!! It’s ‘instagram’ style feed allows for ease of use and visibility of pictures, announcements, and notes. I only with they could merge with remind for the benefit of importing a calendar and sending reminders automatically. With 40 students between my two classes, I wish there was a way to upload more than one picture at a time (similar to how Instagram lets you create a series) or create a collage of a few pics that represent students work on a certain activity. Finally, we purchased the Plus feature to help us with our Illinois KIDS portfolio artifacts, unfortunately the ratings scale is set for you and you can’t change it. It lets you use 4 stars instead of the 6 levels we need. Overall, a great basic app to help bring the experiences in the classroom home and vis versa, send announcements, and keep communication visual. Hoping for the silver bullet of apps to help meet the needs of busy teachers and bustling students!.Version: 6.0.3


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