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Seesaw Parent And Family Negative Reviews

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OK for one-child familiesSimple enough, until you want to add a second child to your family account. Then it becomes entirely frustrating. I still can’t get any of their QR code’s or text codes to work..Version: 7.2.2

I don’t like itGggg.Version: 7.2.7

SearchWould like to have search engine.Version: 7.2.6

Wow, wow, wow, wowOMG so good 😃 I love it I am a Child and i use it for homeschooling best app for kids.🥰.Version: 7.3.0

Can’t zoom in anymoreWith the update the ability to zoom in has been removed. Without this, I can’t see the wonderful work my children are sharing and reflect on it with them. Without this ability, the system is worthless..Version: 7.0

Can’t get inBe nice if the QR code scanned No app for me..Version: 7.2.1

HorribleWay too hard to use. Do not recommend to anyone..Version: 6.0.5

Make dyslexia friendlyGreat app such a shame it hasn’t got a speech to read selection for dyslexic people like my partner not everyone is lucky to have someone to read for them.Version: 7.8.2

Photo viewing is very averageNavigation is not intuitive. Not being able to enlarge photos and videos or rotate the screen is a big let down..Version: 5.7.3

App is rubbishThis app is trash.Version: 7.2.4

Students can’t sign in.I’m a student myself, and I really like the Seesaw layout, but why can’t students sign in? I needed this app, so I could access Seesaw on my phone, but it seems like only family accounts can sign in. My account isn’t connected to a family, so I would please like some feedback. I can’t actually say anything about the actual app because I can’t sign in. Good wishes, a student..Version: 7.1.4

Notifications not workingIn the past week notifications have stopped working. I now need to remember to open the app daily to see new posts/messages. Many other users I know have the same problem. Please fix!.Version: 7.2.6

Confusing & clunky when you have more than 1 childNot happy with this app at all. I cannot add both kids to the same app. Not sure what is viewable by the whole class. I am unable to sign in or add my daughter to the family app, only my son. In order to view journals for both I have to log in on the web browser but sign in separately for both kids. This UI is terrible, I hope that are school are not being charged to use it..Version: 7.4.1

Works 10% of the timeThis app only works 10% of the time. It’s very frustrating to use. It gives a connection error most of the time even when I am sure my network is working perfectly. I need to try so many times before I am able to see my children’s work at school. On the rare occasion that I am able to get in, the connection times out again in the middle of viewing the posts..Version: 6.0.2

FixI wish they would fix the notification on the widget for a new message otherwise it good. But annoying that you have to have text/emails alerts so you don’t miss a message..Version: 7.5

Has one job, sometimes does itAs I see it, this app has one job: give me a window into my child’s education. It ends up being a collection of pictures of my child at school. Which would be great, except that pictures of my child are most often just pictures of several students, sometimes including my child. The teachers are competent and busy, but this app isn’t doing its job well..Version: 5.5

Hate this appI hate this app because of schoolwork.Version: 7.5.5

Hard time seeing what work needs to be done as a parentFrom what I can tell from my usage as well as from our teachers are saying, there is no easy way for parents to see what work is still out and needs to be done from the parents phone. In order to get her this information, you have to check the student’s device which is not helpful when you’re trying to stay on top of things while you’re at work. Fix this and the rating goes way up. It’s good to see the teacher student communication AND also what work has been completed.Version: 7.6.6

Unorganized, the social feed of educational resourcesAs a student this is organized when a child works in their own account. However, as a parent resource, this app is incredibly frustrating and unorganized if you have more than one child. The posts are added by your children’s teacher and isn’t sorted by student. This makes everything a constant mixed social feed and makes you spend more time trying to find resources and feeds, vs. actually pulling up the per child activities. Significant improvements could be made in this app for parent use..Version: 7.2.4

Great app, needs a landscape view.This is a great app and I look forward to seeing individual child and class activities it’s a great way to showcase what the kids are doing and interact with them. My big gripe is that you can’t view pdf newsletters and other files in landscape format. Most parents I know look at Seesaw on a phone but it’s difficult to read documents without zooming and so it’s hard to keep track of where you are on a page. Improve legibility by allow users to turn their phone on its side. It just doesn’t function now. Please consider this a feature request..Version: 6.2

Bring back the like featureI don’t know if it’s through what phone I’m using or what (iPhone X) but on the app I can’t “like” items on Seesaw. The like button worked perfectly well last year but now I cannot use it 🤷‍♀️.Version: 7.4.1

Need sorting of journals for parentsI have four kids who have used SeeSaw for years. Journals are sorted by the child’s name, so I have to randomly find the correct year. Please default newest year’s journal to appear at the top of the list. Give parents the option to hide previous years’ journals..Version: 7.4.1

Just doesn’t workContent posted on app doesn’t click through unplayable asks for login when you’re already logged in . Totally useless! Screen format is terrible. Worst app in the history of everything.Version: 7.2.4

Nothing within the app worksGreat idea, appallingly applied.Version: 4.02

Great when it doesn’t crashKeeps crashing when I open the app. Not the time for this to be happening when you are doing distance learning and this is the app the teacher uses 🤦🏼‍♀️.Version: 7.2.6

Please add portrait mode on iPadIt is very frustrating that the iPad app only works in landscape mode. Can you please add an auto rotate option so it will display in portrait or landscape depending on how we are holding a device. This would be a very very welcome feature for me as a parent and a teacher.Version: 7.4.1

Betrayed me.When I was doing work I drafted it to eat lunch and everything got deleted..Version: 7.6.9

Where has humankind gone?Call me old fashioned but I’d like to speak to my child or their teacher about their progress not view it in some passive state on an app? There’s no space for meaningful interaction, and sending messages to a teacher via an app is just bizarre. It’s sad that the world is consuming ever increasing streams of passive information with little motivation to critically engage other than to “like” or give no reaction..Version: 7.1.8

It’s just for messagingThis app is only good for messaging the teacher. Not a good app to see what they have to do, what is done and what needs to be redone only what they have completed. You’re better off downloading the seesaw CLASS app to be better involved in your child’s classroom. And with knowing that, if you have more than one kid it gets a little more difficult going back and forth since the CLASS app doesn’t allow for concurrent users..Version: 7.5

Worst app everDoes not up date, seesaw refuses to allow to be run on a Mac. Not everyone wants to do things through there cell phone but you force it. App is completely broken and on a snow day my daughter will be getting a zero because of their incompetence. Would go negative stars if I could because I have absolutely nothing nice to say about this app..Version: 7.5.5

NotificationsI have push notifications turned on for this app and NEVER hear a sound out of it when the teacher messages me. Very frustrating as it’s used as a main form of communication by the teacher..Version: 7.1.5

This is rubbishThis doesn’t work for my iq and it is not worth your time Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bad.Version: 7.2.4

Error saving item ALAssetsGroup failed to save itemLoved the app till it stopped letting me save videos to my camera roll. Disappointed. Will change review if it allows me to save videos again. Error saving item ALAssetsGroup failed to save item: (null). Loved getting pictures & videos from my child's teacher and being able to save the videos..Version: 5.7

Basic and flawedWhile it's handy to have, the app's concept is nothing new. Yet it fails at its most basic function, which is viewing photos. No single photo download, no rotate, no pinch to zoom (and stay there). When you read the text before viewing photos, the grey dots continue to hover over the photos until you go back to the first screen. Seriously creators, do you even use your own app?!.Version: 6.2.2

So annoyingIt’s one of two things.....either the school our kids go to have no idea how to use the app effectively, or it’s the worst app of all time. I have notifications turned off but I get notifications constantly. We have two kids, so every time a school note goes out I get everything twice. There is no rhyme or reason to things that get posted. Basically there are so many notes that it makes it tedious to even want to navigate. The only thing I like it for, is if a teacher or my kids post a photo or video of something cool they did in class. I’ve told our kids that they are responsible for their learning and that we won’t use the app. No different than the way it was before technology. If it’s something important we parents need to know.....just send us an email or send a note home with the kids..Version: 7.2.1

Great interface. But doesn’t run as smoothly as it shouldIt’s doesn’t even let me sign on my phone, what the heck. So we’re stuck doing assignments on a PC. Which is fine but being able to work via phone is better. We sign in but get a message saying the teacher has to approve our sign in? We contacted the teacher she said that she hasn’t gotten get any notifications on her end about that :/.Version: 7.2.4

Why are there two apps with different views?!I was asked by my child’s 2nd grade teacher to DL Seesaw family, only to notice I cannot submit their class work or homework on this (seesaw family) app?! I have to login to Seesaw class as my child’s login so I can take a picture of their work on my phone. Obviously my child can take a picture of the photo via their laptop computer, but who the hell wants to position a notebook in front of their laptop or iPad cam that’s blurry to show their work? What is the point of having this app at all if you cannot have the same functions?! What a waste of space when it’s redundant to have the teacher’s announcements made 4x in their seesaw classroom app + this parent app!.Version: 7.4.1

I expect to see Sign In with ApplePlease add this.Version: 7.6.7

Needs To Display AssignmentsEchoing what others have said, the app needs to display the assignments the students have so the parents know if they’re completed or not. Also, there is quite a delay between when my kiddo submits an assignment and when it shows up in my feed. I need to be able to see what she has submitted..Version: 7.5.2

Not badOften I download the photos to share with family. Wouldn’t it make sense to streamline the download and save process to a single button and make it quicker?.Version: 6.0.5

ClunkyWhy can’t I see the class activities from the family app? I need access to this to print from a different device to my child’s. So I end up logging in as the child on the class app on my device (so logged in twice, once on the child’s device and once on my own) but then as I have more than one child I have to keep switching logging in and out as I cannot be logged in as both, this then needs the unique code sent from school each time so the whole process just print/email from the class activities is a pain. Please simplify this; view class activities from the family app would solve this issue. Also on the Kindle, there is no delete button from the journal! This is available on iPhone but not Kindle. This app needs some work..Version: 7.2.6

Qr scanner does not workWaste of time so far..Version: 3.1

Used to like itI used to like it, but now you can’t even ‘like’ or ‘love’ yours child’s picture. You should take a look at the Class Dojo app and get a few tips from it..Version: 7.1.1

IPad version does not allow family login, if using gmailI can use seesaw on my laptop using family login, but can not use seesaw on iPad with the same login details. The iPad version does not accept my family login, because it uses a gmail address..Version: 7.1.10

Unintuitive and confusingHave no idea what we’re doing with this app. It’s poorly laid out, badly implemented and a complete nightmare. Never know which of the seesaw apps to use for what task. Just hate it..Version: 7.6.1

Needs to be improvedThere is no option for parents to send a message to the teacher! Shouldn't that be the main reason for this application to create a source of communication between the teachers and parents?.Version: 4.02

Fix new updateJust updated a week ago and now I can’t even open the app. Shouldn’t have updated to Thai version. Please fix ASAP.Version: 7.2.3

Poor UI choices, difficult to manage contentI’ve been using Seesaw online before but it’s difficult to view pictures and video on a tablet there (if it’s an album then all you see is a small image), so this year I gave up and installed the app. Other than being able to see larger pictures and more stable navigation (it was just atrocious online, so hardly an improvement), I don’t see any benefits in installing the app and consuming space on your device. I have just one kid who is in the last elementary grade. But according to the app, I have 5 children since it seems to treat every class as “child”. Can’t get rid of any old stuff. When I open a list of “children”, they all are listed under one name and I don’t know which class is which. Messages from 2 grades ago are still there, can’t delete anything. Sometimes notification bubble is up but there is actually nothing new when you tap on it. Overall seems very disorganized and maybe convenient for teachers but not so much for the parents. Can’t wait to not use it ever!.Version: 7.1.2

WhatWhy do you need you teachers qr it says FAMILY seesaw.Version: 6.2

Half finished, not fit for purposeMaybe it wasn’t designed for how it’s being used, but this is a dreadful piece of software, confusing and clunky. Printing from it is almost impossible, files that you save to Dropbox lose their file name and extension, and there’s no portrait view on iPad. It’s also not obvious who can see what you write - some things can be seen by the whole class, others just by the class teacher. Not great for an app that claims to respect privacy..Version: 7.2.4

Lacking a search featureThis app is lacking a search feature. After a few hundred messages it is difficult to go back and look at the information that you may need. No other functionality beside messaging and stories and it does not do that very well lacks basic recall features..Version: 7.4.1

App LimitationsThe App is a good idea but has limitations that developers need to work through as follows: 1. The App does not allow to turn off notifications for each time someone “likes” a pinned video, photo or message. So, you keep getting highly annoying pings. 2. When a notification arrives that an item was updated, it’s not straight away evident what changes were made, so you have to go through every single slide looking carefully what has changed, and whether quotation marks have had a slight change in colour meaning there’s a comment hiding in that slide. Seriously. Sometimes I cannot tell what was updated and what my attention is being drawn to..Version: 7.7.2

Videos don’t playLove this app but the videos don’t play. Don’t even appear to be videos. Can you remedy this, please?.Version: 7.3.0

??We only get group photos, nothing specific to our children. No results, work thats done . Nothing, not sure of the purpose other than reminders..Version: 6.2.1

Does not auto save the student’s workWhether on the app or on a webbrowser, work does not get saved in the background. Teaching kids that they need to hit Draft early and often is not something that should be necessary with most software that auto saves these days. I cannot begin to tell you the frustration, tears this has caused when my kid found out a chunk of work was lost. For this reason alone, I give this app an F..Version: 7.2.6

Will not updateLatest version will not update, also cannot delete app to reinstall. Please fix!!.Version: 4.5.7

Some flawsWas google photos integration removed? That was the best feature. When I want to save a single photo, it always download all the pictures in the album. This needs to be fixed..Version: 7.1.8

No way to save memoriesAdd an option to save videos..Version: 7.2.2

Terrible, terrible applicationSummary: privacy concerns, can't see favourite postings, no landscape mode I am not a Facebook user. I have no control over who has access to my kids' photos. Names and images are matched on a foreign server! This is very concerning for anyone who understands anything about privacy. I have one seesaw post I often refer to. It takes me a full 5 minutes to scroll through months of posts to see 1 post that I favourited. That's appalling UI design (and I'm a UI designer!!) You can't rotate images. The one image I'm interested in was taken in landscape mode but I it can only be viewed in portrait mode. you can't copy images to your photo album or view them full screen and it's hard to zoom in!! Mind boggling. The whole UI is clunky. How do you see images? How do you review comments? It's not intuitive to use. This app is terrible. I do not recommend it. It's a flawed design..Version: 4.6

Needs some improvementThis app won’t tell me when my children’s teacher assigns a task and waiting to be completed. It only shows when my children submit the assignments and accepted by the teacher. I downloaded this app to make sure my kid won’t miss an assignment. But it doesn’t serve a purpose. I have to open their devices and login to see if they miss anything. It doesn’t make sense. If the app does this feature. I would give 4-5 stars..Version: 7.4.1

Really insufficient for parentsI have had nothing but trouble using this app. First i got everyone else’s children and not my child’s journal. Then i could not change password as my email was entered wrong. Worked with the school tech support twice, and still don't have access to my child’s journal. After second request teachers still have not accepted me. I cannot even email school through the app. This is partially a school issue but the app lack features to communicate back to school regarding technical issues..Version: 5.5

Needs workLandscape option for videos please Two different access points to view items. One doesn't let you zoom in and doesn't remove the notification icon. May just be the poster tagging literally everyone but a bit over seeing everything when only interested in seeing your kids class.Version: 4.5.7

Not for parents of young kidsWaste of time. No way to upload homework for my primary school child. Need to download the CLASS app instead. Misleading as this one says it is for parents..Version: 7.5.2

Email notifications are frustratingI get a notification that says “new school work added”, so I click. Then I have to move the the page it brings me to to get to the actual new item. Then it turns out the teacher has just commented on something a parent wrote. How is this new work? Wht isn’t called “new comment added”? Why didn’t it go to that exact new item in the first place? And why can’t you just put that content into the body of the email without making me click twice? I feel like this app wastes a lot of my time..Version: 7.1.10

Great app!Would rate it 5 stars if you had the ability to write the teacher a message first if they haven’t sent you a message yet. Then it would be perfect! Will update to 5 starts when that feature is available. Being able to look back at messages helps keep up with a lot of different things and if your child’s teacher never actually messages you and only posts to your child’s journal then you can’t keep up with certain things that you would be able to with a simple message. 👎 Cmon seesaw!.Version: 7.2.2

Great - could be betterA brilliant app that allows parents to see their child's learning. It could help to be able to be able to look at certain folders instead of just everything in one feed. I would like to be able to see only the writing feed or only the math feed etc..Version: 2.5

HorrendousAs an app designer and parent I feel for all the teachers and parents who are forced to use this horrendously designed app. I've not used a worse app in 10 years..Version: 7.5.5

Great app but with no option to save images or videoOverall great experience that you can see child's learning and life at school but sadly there is no option for saving images / videos teacher upload to seesaw. You have to share it via email link and open it via Safari or other browser to save the image only. Definitely a room for improvements!.Version: 3.1

Good app that could use a few improvementsIt’s wonderful to be able to see kids’ completed work and their grades and teacher’s comments. However, since parents are already juggling multiple apps and mode of school communication during virtual learning, it would be helpful to see the students’ assignments in the family app in addition to the student app. This would help families keep track of upcoming work on their own devices instead of having to toggle between the family and student apps..Version: 7.4.1

This is. Really. Bad app"…SUCH A BAD APP.Version: 7.3.0

Can’t save picsI used to save photos but I can’t recently. I can see how my child is doing and love it otherwise..Version: 7.0.5

Won’t sign me inI love this app but it’s signed me out and is now saying there no account associated with my email??! Really irritating.Version: 5.5

Can no longer save picturesUsing iOS 10 and since the latest update can no longer save pictures showing in the journal..Version: 6.0.2

Facebook for elementary school childrenUnfortunately this app is basically Facebook for elementary school children, closely mimicking the Facebook feed and even offering little kids the ability to Like and comment on each others’ posts. I don’t want my kids’ school sending a message that social media usage is positive and should be embraced when in fact evidence shows it can be detrimental to the emotional well being of young people. No thanks, I asked my son’s teacher to opt him out of using this app..Version: 6.2

Unable to set notification.Seesaw app is currently installed but doesn’t appear on the Notification list? Please help.Version: 6.0.1

No direct message function to teacher?Frustratingly, this app lacks the basic ability to direct message the teacher. You can comment on content, but those comments are public to anyone else's child tagged in the content..Version: 4.5

Needs more filtersThe inbox is only sorted by teacher. So any announcements that are sent from the school, you have to remember which teacher sent it to find it. If you could add filters to sort by date or even the ability to search the inbox that would make it easier. We currently have teachers listed twice based on class and year group, plus individual office staff and the principal and support teachers. Everything else works well except for this section..Version: 7.5.5

It’s ok but not that parent friendlyIt’s annoying that you can’t upload your own videos so makes it harder to send into school. It only lets you upload more than 1 photo from your phone (again most of us take pictures as we go...I dint want to have to have 2 devices on me to have to upload work). Also I have 2 kids close in age gap and I can’t have them on the same account which is frustrating!.Version: 7.5.5

Terrible compared to Seesaw Class versionThe family version is terrible. not all of my son’s folders show up, and i can’t see the assigned activities within the folders that do show up, so i can’t post any photos of his homework! this is supposed to be to keep track of multiple children, and it can’t even handle ONE. i’ve resorted to signing off and on between my 2 kids on the Seesaw Class version. Seesaw Class is great for one kid at a time..Version: 7.5.5

Functionality & usability of this app is poorMy twin 2nd graders use this platform for their remote learning. The family app inexplicably doesn’t have the same content as the kids versions of the app with assignments. Who within your organization thought that this was even remotely a good idea?? What use is the “family” app if I can’t see important assignment/class information for your kids?? Right now the family app is basically useless to us, we’re thinking of installing the kids version so we can actually see what’s going on to help them with their work..Version: 7.4.1

2 appsI am a private tutor. I use this app multiple times a day with all of my students. There are so many features that I like about this app. It has been a great way to go paperless and to communicate with my parents. I have the parents post videos and pictures of the homework I assign. In order to do this they have to download the class app and the family app. There needs to be a way to integrate all of this into one app. Having two apps makes the first week of setup really confusing for parents. It would be much more convenient if all of the features were combined into one app..Version: 6.0.2

Half baked.Not sure why school district selected this half baked product. Two parents cannot have separate accounts for the same child. Cannot even add more than one email. Cannot even add more than one phone number. So basically, all notifications can only go to one parent’s email address and phone number. Despite paying so much taxes, this is the app they selected for us!.Version: 7.2.4

Gone downhillNotifications either don’t arrive at all or can take up to 12hrs to arrive after items get posted or updated Inability to close videos off properly and functional level of zoom to images is poor.Version: 7.3.0

The layout needs workThe idea is great. School to parent communication. My kid is in the 2.5 preschool class and they use this app. I think the layout could be better. Not user friendly. When I open the app I don’t know which area I need to click on to view the photo or write the message. I also have no idea who is messaging me the teach or principle. Unfortunately, when I post a question I don’t get a response..Version: 7.7.2

Now unable to save photos of my childrenPlease bring this back.Version: 6.2.1

BuggyLots of good things about it, but it will randomly not send me class announcements and I only find out later from other parents that I’ve missed important messages. Delete and reinstall doesn’t seem to fix this bug..Version: 7.2.6

Problem enlarging imagesThe zoom feature isn’t working at all.... makes it very difficult to read our kids’ school work/letters!.Version: 7.0

Missing functionalityThis is wonderful if you just want to see your children’s completed assignments and communications from the teacher. What would actually be helpful is if you could have more than one child listed and then toggle between them. Secondly, they really need to add the ability for parents to be notified when new assignments have been added. Seesaw is for elementary children, and they need more help in being aware of and completing their tasks. This could be such a powerful tool to help, if only they were thinking of the whole picture..Version: 7.4.1

Qr scanner does not workI can't access the application because it's not scanning my qr code.Version: 5.2

Notifications do not workMy complaint is regarding notifications. My notifications are set for alerts, banners, and badges. I don’t get any of them. I only see the badge when I open the app and see how many new messages there are. The app icon does not show the badge, nor do banners or alerts come up on the screen. Other parents and teachers have said the same thing..Version: 7.2.4

Where did the like button go?It was a really useful way of acknowledging a post without commenting..Version: 7.6.4

Can’t reset passwordThe app signed me out I could not remember my password every time I hit resend password with the correct email it does not show up in my inbox and my spam or my junk or my trash resetting password is impossible.Version: 6.2.2

DisappointingAs the title says this app is disappointing. I have used other apps for parent teacher communication and this one fall short on several different fronts. 1. Adding both parents to a child’s class is a pain with the app seeming to make it extra hard. 2. You can only message the teacher after they message you. So you have to commit on a class/group photo to ask the teacher to message you. 3. You cannot contact other parents on this app. I know with COVID it isn’t as big of a thing but being able to message other parents worked great for me on another app I used before. That includes bullying, class get togethers, invitations to sleep overs or birthday parties. Parent to parent communication doesn’t exist on this app. In conclusion. This is a poorly executed app that is neither user-friendly nor well thought out for a multiple parents or communication coming from parents to teacher. In addition there is no parent to parent communication available..Version: 7.7.4

App is very delayedThis is a great tool to see what the kids are doing in school. My only issue is when one of my kids post, it does not come onto the app for 4-5 days later. It shows the date it was posted so I do know how long it took to see the item. If this would be fixed, it would be a 5 star rating..Version: 6.1.1

What is this?This app is really bad and clunky do not download unless u want lag..Version: 6.2


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