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5 published guidesNew to Seating Chart?
Start with the classroom.
Set up the room you teach in first. When your roster is ready, add your students and decide where everyone belongs.
- 01Create a classroom→
- 02Add a class→
- 03
Add or import studentsGuide planned
- 04
Seat your classGuide planned
- 05
Start teachingGuide planned
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Open a published guide now, or scan the planned topics to see where more instructions will be added as the app interface settles.
Getting Started
Set up Seating Chart and understand the first few decisions.
- Create your classroom before your roster arrives
- Getting started with Seating ChartPlanned
- Create your first classPlanned
Classes & Classrooms
Understand the room you teach in and the groups that meet there.
- Classes and classrooms: what’s the difference?
- Use one classroom with multiple classesPlanned
- Teach in more than one classroomPlanned
Students & Rosters
Add students, prepare a roster, and keep the class list current.
- Add a studentPlanned
- Import a rosterPlanned
- Review your class rosterPlanned
Seating & Arranging
Assign students to desks and make changes without starting over.
- Assign students to desksPlanned
- Rearrange your classPlanned
- Find students who are not seatedPlanned
Randomizer
Pick students and understand where you are in a selection cycle.
- Pick a random studentPlanned
- See who has already been pickedPlanned
- Start a new randomizer cyclePlanned
Classroom Tools
Use the focused tools that stay close to the seating chart.
- Citizenship and effortPlanned
- Color labelsPlanned
- Student detailsPlanned
Print & Export
Guidance will be added as the launch export tools are finalized.
- Print a seating chartPlanned
- Export classroom informationPlanned
- Share a seating chartPlanned
Privacy & Data
Learn where classroom information lives and when it can leave the app.
- Where Seating Chart stores classroom data
- Does Seating Chart require an account?
- Backups and managed iPadsPlanned
- Importing and exporting classroom informationPlanned
Troubleshooting
Find the next step when something is not working as expected.
- How to contact Seating Chart support
- Roster import did not workPlanned
- Changes are not appearingPlanned
Published guides
Answers you can read now.
These first guides cover stable concepts without depending on button names or screens that may change before launch.
- 01Classes & ClassroomsClasses and classrooms: what’s the difference?A classroom is the physical room you teach in. A class is the group of students who meet there. Seating Chart keeps those ideas separate so one room can work with many classes.
- 02Getting StartedCreate your classroom before your roster arrivesYou don’t need your student list before you start setting up Seating Chart. Build the room first and add your class when you’re ready.
- 03Privacy & DataWhere Seating Chart stores classroom dataSeating Chart is designed to keep classroom and student information locally on your iPad rather than in a Seating Chart cloud account.
- 04Privacy & DataDoes Seating Chart require an account?No Seating Chart account is planned to be required for the core app.
- 05TroubleshootingHow to contact Seating Chart supportIf the Help Center doesn’t solve the problem, you can ask a real person for help.
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See it done in under a minute.
Short Seating Chart tutorials focus on one task at a time, so you can get the answer without sitting through a long walkthrough.
Browse all tutorials- 01Create your first classroomUnder a minute · coming with the launch interface
- 02Add and arrange studentsUnder a minute · coming with the launch interface
- 03Use the student randomizerUnder a minute · coming with the launch interface
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If the Help Center doesn’t answer your question, contact Seating Chart support. Tell us what you were trying to do and what happened, and we’ll help you figure it out.