Transform Your Classroom Management with This Seating Chart App!
Take your classroom management to the next level with this innovative app, designed specifically with educators in mind. Discover the game-changing features that will streamline your daily tasks:
- Streamlined Attendance and Homework Tracking: Keep track of attendance effortlessly—even for fire drills—and monitor homework submissions all in one place, thanks to our intuitive customizable seating chart.
- Fair and Easy Student Participation: Give every student an equal opportunity to engage with the innovative random selection feature. Absent students are automatically omitted, ensuring smooth and hassle-free participation.
- Effortless Group Creation: Form dynamic student groups with a simple tap! Adjust and refine these groups effortlessly using our drag-and-drop functionality, making collaborative projects a breeze.
- Organized Summaries at Your Fingertips: Quickly access and print attendance and homework records spanning multiple days, so you can stay organized and focused on what truly matters—your students.
- Fully Customizable Seating Charts: Start from a grid and tailor your layout to fit your classroom’s unique needs. Easily drag to reposition, reassign, or randomize seating to foster an optimal learning environment. Plus, capture photos for each seat with just a tap on student names.
- Hassle-Free Import Options: Save valuable time with easy student imports from plain-text files or CSVs, seamlessly compatible with school databases that support CSV exports.
- Secure Data Storage: Enjoy peace of mind with all your data safely stored locally on your device. No internet connection or subscription fees needed—just a focus on productivity!
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Class Seating Chart Setup and Usage
Seating charts can be viewed and used to track attendance, including fire drill attendance and homework submission. Tapping a seat toggles between color-coded options such as "Green" for "in", "Yellow" for "Late", "Red" for "Out", and "Purple" for "Excused" (not every screen) and the default color (beige), which represents 'unset' on some screens. Entries are tracked daily. Previous days' entries can be viewed, and multi-day summaries may be available on certain screens. Multi-day entries for some of these options can also be viewed on one screen and printed.
You can view a multi-day summary by selecting the start date of the summary and the number of days in the summary:
The main menu
In the main menu, some options are initially hidden. For instance, you can't add students without a class, create a seating chart without students, or use a seating chart for attendance without creating it first.
Random Student Picks
Random student selection aims to ensure that no student is called on more frequently than others within a given day. When a student is chosen, their short name (for example, a nickname) appears, followed by their full name underneath. A progress bar above the "Pick next student" button shows the current cycle of selecting students evenly, ensuring each student is called once before the process resets.
Random Group Creation
Groups are randomly assigned based on the number of students per group or the total number of groups. You can manually edit groups by dragging student names to their desired positions. Groups can be copied for use in other applications, emailed, or printed for a hard copy. Previously created groups can be displayed and edited.
You set up the seating chart from the Manage Seating Chart Menu, which looks like the below -- and the first time you initialize/re-initalize a seating chart you start by giving a number of rows/columns to get starting seats, then can edit the layout from the layout menu option:
All data and settings are stored locally on your device, unless backed up externally. The app works offline and has no subscriptions or fees.
Screenshots and basic instructions