Classroom Seating Chart Maker
Seat your class in rows, groups or a U, keep pairs apart and print the chart.
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- Free preview: the whole chart maker with automatic seating on a marked chart, and the first page of the printout as a marked page image.
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Add students
Students marked “Front” sit in the front seats, pairs on the Rules tab are kept apart, and pinned students stay where they are.
No students yet: paste their names above, or try the example class.
Apart means not next to each other: not side by side in a row (and not in front or behind, if you chose that), not at the same group table, not next to each other round the U.
No pairs yet.
Tick “Front” beside a student on the Students tab for anyone who needs to sit near the board.
Your class is kept in this browser on this device. A class file keeps a copy to open here again or on another device.
Seating chart
Drag a student to another seat, or select two seats to swap them. Arrow keys move between seats.Locked in the free preview. Opens the ways to unlock this result.
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About the Classroom Seating Chart Maker
Make a seating chart for your classroom in a few minutes. Set up the room — rows of desks (single or in pairs with aisles), groups of tables, or a U shape — paste your class list, and let the page seat everyone at random or in alphabetical order by first or last name. Tick Front for students who need to sit near the board, add pairs who should be kept apart, and the seating keeps to those rules or tells you exactly which one it could not keep.
Fine-tune by dragging a student to another seat or by choosing two seats to swap; a student you move is pinned, so seating the class again leaves them there. With a pass, download the chart as a PDF — landscape A4 or US Letter, the board at the top or the bottom, with an alphabetical class list if you like. Your class list never leaves your browser.
How to use it
- On Room, choose rows, groups or a U shape and how many desks, groups or seats; choose which rows count as front seats.
- On Students, paste your class list (one name per line; roll numbers in front are left out, and “Rao, Asha” is read as last name, first name) and press Add students. Tick Front beside anyone who needs a front seat.
- On Rules, add pairs who must not sit next to each other.
- Choose At random or A–Z by first name or last name, then press Seat the class. Drag students to other seats, select two seats to swap them, or pick a seat from the list beside a name; Undo takes back any change.
- On Print & files, check the printout; download the PDF with a pass, or after unlocking this chart — the free preview shows its first page, marked. A class file keeps the class to open again on another device.
Examples
26 students · 5 rows of 6 desks in pairs · At random
Every student seated from the front; the 4 empty desks are the last ones in the back row
A–Z by last name · 3 students ticked Front
Those 3 in the front row, everyone else in alphabetical order from the front left
Rows · keep Ben and Chloé apart
Never side by side (across an aisle too) and, if you choose, never directly in front of or behind each other
6 groups of 4 · keep three pairs apart
No pair shares a table; if the class makes that impossible, the page says which pair it could not keep apart
Common uses
- The first seating plan for a new class, at random or alphabetically.
- Moving students who need to sit near the board for eyesight, hearing or attention.
- Keeping talkative pairs apart in rows, in groups or round a U.
- Leaving a printed chart for a cover teacher.
- Changing the room from rows to groups and seating the class again in seconds.
How automatic seating works
- Pinned students keep their seats. A student you move by hand is pinned (the lock beside the name); tap the lock to unpin.
- Students ticked Front are seated first, in the front seats; if there are more of them than front seats, the others sit as near the front as the room allows, and the page says so.
- Pairs on the Rules tab are never put next to each other. The page searches for a seating that keeps every rule, trying again when a choice leaves no room for a later student.
- With fewer students than seats, the class fills the room from the front, so the empty seats are at the back.
- Seat everyone again keeps only pinned students; Fill the empty seats keeps everyone who is seated and places the rest.
When the rules cannot all be kept — say four students who must all be apart at one table of four — the page seats everyone and lists each rule it could not keep, so you can add seats or decide by hand.
What “next to each other” means
- Rows: side by side in a row, including across an aisle; and, while that option is on, directly in front or behind.
- Groups: at the same table.
- U shape: the seats on either side along the U, round the corners too; without seats along the back, the two sides are separate rows.
The printout
One landscape page with the room: the board across the top (as the class sees the room) or across the bottom (as the teacher sees the class from the front), every desk with its student and its number, the front seats shaded and the group tables drawn in. Names are sized to fit their desk, on two lines if needed. An optional second page lists the class alphabetically with each student’s seat, for a cover teacher or the register. A4 or US Letter.
Limitations
- Rules are between two students who must sit apart; to keep two students together, seat them by hand and they are pinned.
- The chart is a plan of the room, not to scale: it shows where desks are, not the room’s size, doors or windows.
- Up to 100 students and 150 seats in one chart.
- The class is kept in this browser on this device; a class file moves it to another device or browser.
Privacy
On this device: nothing is sent
Everything happens in your browser: names, rules and seats are never uploaded. The class is kept in this browser’s storage on this device so it is there next time; Start a new class clears it.
Frequently asked questions
What do I get without a pass?
Without a pass, Classroom Seating Chart Maker shows the whole chart maker with automatic seating on a marked chart, and the first page of the printout as a marked page image. Until you unlock it, the result can’t be downloaded. A Pro, Premium or Ultimate pass, a one-time payment that never renews, unlocks the full result. The pricing page lists the passes and their prices.
How do I seat students at random but keep some apart?
Add each pair on the Rules tab, choose At random and press Seat the class. No pair is put next to each other; press Seat the class again for a new random seating that keeps the same rules.
Can it seat the class in alphabetical order?
Yes: choose A–Z by first name or A–Z by last name (the last word of a name, or what comes before the comma in “Rao, Asha”). The class fills the room from the front left, row by row; students ticked Front and pairs kept apart can move a name or two out of order, and pinned students stay where they are.
How do I make sure some students sit at the front?
Tick Front beside their names and seat the class. They get the front seats — the first row by default; on the Room tab you can count the first two or three rows, or the first seats on each side of a U, as the front.
Can I move one student without changing everyone else?
Yes. Drag them to another seat (a taken seat swaps the two), select their seat and then another one, or choose a seat from the list beside their name. Moved students are pinned, so seating the class again leaves them where you put them.
Which way round is the chart?
With the board at the top, the chart shows the room as the class sees it. Choose Board at the bottom on the Room tab to see it as the teacher does, standing at the front facing the class; the printout follows the same choice.