Seesaw Launches AI-Powered Assessment Experience to Help Schools Turn Student Thinking Into Actionable Insight
AI automatically grades open-ended student responses, summarizes understanding, and surfaces insights to help educators
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AI automatically grades open-ended student responses, summarizes understanding, and surfaces insights to help educators identify where students need support.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, UNITED STATES, August 13, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Seesaw, the leading elementary learning platform, today announced Show What You Know, a new AI-powered assessment experience designed to help schools capture a more complete picture of student understanding and turn that evidence into actionable instructional insight.
For years, Seesaw has enabled students to demonstrate learning through drawings, voice recordings, videos, and other multimodal responses. This year alone, more than 10 million students have used Seesaw to make their learning visible. With Show What You Know, Seesaw is taking the next step: using AI to automatically grade open-ended student responses and surface meaningful insights from the evidence students produce.
For school leaders focused on improving instructional outcomes while protecting teacher capacity, the opportunity is significant: open-ended assessment provides deeper evidence of student thinking, but manually reviewing multimedia responses at scale can be time-intensive. Show What You Know helps bridge that gap by automatically evaluating student responses against teacher-defined rubrics, generating scores and summaries, and surfacing insights that help educators quickly see what students understand and where additional support may be needed.
“Every drawing, voice note, and ‘aha!’ moment tells a story that standard multiple-choice tests miss,” said [Claire Voigtlander], Product Manager, Seesaw. “Show What You Know gives teachers a way to capture that richer evidence of learning while using AI to automatically evaluate responses and surface the insights that matter most. The result is more time for teachers to respond to student needs and less time spent manually reviewing every response.”
Making deeper learning more actionable
Show What You Know enables students to use Seesaw’s familiar Draw + Record tools to explain their thinking, demonstrate their reasoning, and show what they know in ways that reflect authentic classroom learning. Once submitted, Seesaw AI automatically grades each response against the teacher-provided rubric, providing an overall score along with a concise summary of the student’s response and an indicator of how well the student demonstrated the concept.
These AI-generated insights give teachers a faster way to understand student thinking, identify misconceptions and gaps in understanding, and pinpoint students who may benefit from additional support, without having to review every recording from start to finish manually. By automating the evaluation of open-ended responses while keeping teachers in control of the assessment criteria, Show What You Know makes richer formative assessment more efficient and actionable at scale.
Show What You Know is built directly into the Seesaw platform, allowing schools to extend existing instructional and assessment practices without introducing another standalone tool, login, or workflow. As the latest innovation in Seesaw AI, Show What You Know reflects Seesaw’s approach to AI: practical, teacher-centered technology that reduces repetitive work while helping educators make informed decisions about student learning.
By making student thinking more visible and easier to interpret, Show What You Know helps educators move more quickly from evidence of learning to instructional response, whether that means providing targeted support, addressing a misconception, extending a student’s thinking, or recognizing mastery.
The launch follows a significant year for Seesaw AI. In 2026, Seesaw received the prestigious CODiE Award for Best AI Solution for Education, recognizing the company’s commitment to developing AI-powered solutions designed around meaningful outcomes for educators and students.
Show What You Know begins rolling out to customers on August 5, 2026, as part of Seesaw AI.
Learn more about Seesaw AI and Show What You Know.
About Seesaw
Seesaw is the leading learning platform built specifically for elementary education. Trusted by more than 25 million students, teachers, and families worldwide, Seesaw combines instructional tools, standards-aligned lessons, AI-powered teaching support, student portfolios, and family communication in one easy-to-use platform. By making learning visible through creative, multimodal experiences, Seesaw helps every student participate, every teacher personalize instruction, and every family stay connected to what matters most: student learning.
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