Creating a New Seating Chart

  1. Click on Seating Charts on the left panel. (Circled in Red)

  2. Click on the course section you are working on.

  3. Name the Seating Chart (NOTE: The name must be unique to your courses. Eg. Art p5)

  4. How many columns will be in your seating chart (Note: This is adjustable later.)

  5. How many rows? (Note: This is adjustable later.)

  6. How close do you want desks to appear next to each other horizontally. (Note: We recommend “None”.)

  7. How close do you want desks to appear next to each other vertically.(Note: We recommend “None”.)

  8. Choose how you would like your students assigned desks

    1. Alphabetically A-Z

    2. Reverse Alphabetically Z-A

    3. Random

    4. Or place students manually

  9. Create the chart and go to the next screen



Fig. 1




Seating Chart View

  1. Save your current seating chart

  2. Delete your current seating chart

  3. Copy your current seating chart to other course sections

  4. Create a printout of your seating chart (see fig. 3)

  5. Create a new seating chart

  6. Open a previously created seating chart

  7. Remove all students from seating chart

  8. Place all students in seats

    1. Alphabetically A-Z

    2. Reverse Alphabetically Z-A

    3. Random

    4. Or place students manually

  9. Mark the seating chart as default (If you are using multiple seating charts)

  10. Enlarge the seating chart area

  11. Decrease the seating chart area

  12. Add more desks to the seating chart

  13. Students to add to the seating chart

  14. The seating chart area



 Figure 2



You can:

-Click and drag students into their seats.

-Click and drag seats to better represent your classroom.

-Add desks to fill in your classroom.

-Remove desks to better represent your classroom.

-Create multiple seating charts for one classroom (For group projects, reading groups, etc.).

-Make a seating chart of random groupings for group projects.

-Arrange students that you want in specific seats and fill in the rest randomly.

-Copy a seating chart from one course to the next.

-Print out a hard copy of your seating chart with nicknames and photos for substitutes (see fig. 3)




Figure 3