Try my tool to manage seating plans in the classroom?

[Teahcertooling]

I'm looking for testers for my teacher tool to create seating plans for the classroom: https://classroomseatplanner.com/. Any feedback is very welcome!

I've had a play around with it as it's difficult to mix up the seating in my primary classroom. I thought the front of the classroom was at the opposite end so I'll need to replan. Maybe this can be marked on so it's easy to see where the front and back of the room are. My class don't sit in rows so I can't easily swap the plan around. Now I'm not sure if I have to start again from scratch or if I can easily tweak the seating plan.

We already use the seating planner in Class Charts which pulls through information such as which pupils frequently get red marks when seated next to each other, (based on the inbuilt green/red points system), and integrates with SIMS so that rich data such as ALN status, health issues, whether the child is on report etc. can be seen at the click of a button.

You can create your classroom layout pretty exactly, including different shaped and sized tables from rectangles to hexagons.

You can also move individuals or reseat a whole class according to various parameters with a couple of clicks, have multiple seating plans for different activities, can easily print them out for supply teachers with photos if needed.
I also use iDoceo for planning which has seating planner functionality.

What might your software do in addition to this?

Just to add- I found I couldn't edit my plan so had to delete and start again. I kept getting error messages so have given up for now. It would have been helpful to be able to save all student names for replanning as it takes time to input them all again along with who can't sit next to who.

Thank you so much for trying it! I've made some changes now to hopefully make it more clear what's the front and back of the classroom.

I'll also work on disconnecting the "classroom" from the "class", so that you don't have to re-create the student and seating rules when you create a new (class)room. Thanks for the suggestions!

Thank you for sharing this! I'll read up on all of this and see what I can implement in my seating planner.

I think I saw from the logs of the application what error you ran into. I hope I've fixed it now. Thanks again!

Anyone spending hours on a seating plan is doing it wrong.

No offence to your product but it does nothing that most of the major MIS systems already do.

Thanks for commenting. I'm not from the UK, and I have not heard of a "MIS system" before now. I certainly haven't used a system with these sort of capabilities in it before. I'm happy to hear that there are options though.

Yeah you won't get anywhere without knowing what an MIS system is in school sorry. You've got a product no one needs.

I don't agree with you on either point.

> Yeah you won't get anywhere without knowing what an MIS system is in school sorry.

Not all countries use systems like that.

> You've got a product no one needs.

Same comment: Now all countries use systems like that, which can do seat assignments.

I've now made the app have "classes" separate from the "classrooms", so that you can assign a class to use multiple different classrooms with different layouts. You can now also edit classrooms after creating them.