Seatbay guide
Classroom seating chart: rows
Rows put every pupil at a single desk facing the board. It is the plainest classroom layout: everyone can see the front and the teacher can see every face. Seatbay opens it with 30 desks, a board and a teacher’s desk, ready for your class list.
Open the rows layoutOpens Seatbay with this layout ready to fill. If you have a plan started already, it opens that: pick the layout under Layouts.
When rows work well
Rows suit teaching from the front, individual work and a class that is still settling in. Pupils have their own space, and there is little to look at but the board.
The cost is that pupils cannot easily work together, and those at the back are furthest from the teacher. Moving pupils who need more help towards the front is the usual answer.
Fill it in
Paste your class list, one name on each line, then drag each pupil to a desk (or tap a name, then a desk, on a phone or tablet). Add or remove desks to match your room.
Set keep apart or keep together for any two pupils, and mark a pupil who should sit near the front or near the door. A broken rule is marked on both desks with its reason. The plan prints on one sheet for the classroom wall or a cover teacher.
Questions
How many desks does the layout have?
It opens with 30 single desks. Remove the ones you do not need or add more, and move any desk by dragging it.
Where do my pupils’ names go?
Nowhere. There is no account, and the class stays in your browser on your own device. A class is never shared in a link: you print the plan, or save a backup file.