Schools Clamored for Seesaw. That Was the Good News, and the Bad News.

Schools Clamored for Seesaw. That Was the Good News, and the Bad News.

The Coronavirus OutbreakliveLatest UpdatesMaps and CasesVaccine TrackerRecord Number of HospitalizationsAnswers to Your QuestionsIt wasn't simple to become a do-it-all education tool almost overnight.Jennifer Montemayor, a kindergarten teacher in San Antonio, using a cue for the Seesaw app, which lets students submit audio comments or digital drawings for lessons.Credit...Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York TimesBy Stephanie CliffordThe first requests that upended Seesaw, a popular classroom app, came in January from teachers and education officials abroad. Their schools were shutting down because of the coronavirus, and they urgently wanted the app adjusted for remote learning. The company figured it could do that with a single short hackathon project.“We were so naïve,” said Emily Voigtlander Seliger, a Seesaw product manager.Weeks later, reality hit: The virus spread to the United States, where more of