Flexible seating charts
for every teacher
and every school
Simple by default
Powerful when you need it
Your Seating Plan Done in 141 Seconds*
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Import your class roster
Paste from any spreadsheet, import from Google Classroom or Microsoft Teams, or synchronise with your school's MIS/SIS
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Create your classroom layout
Drop, resize and rotate furniture to match your classroom.
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Seat your students
Generate a seating plan by combining the class roster with your classroom layout.
Simple by default. Powerful when you need it.
Optional features for every teacher. Control for every school.
Data-Rich Seating Plans
- Display key data about your students, including SEND status, target grades and assessments.
- Colour-code students based on their data for quick visual identification.
- Smart Sorting – automatically group or separate students based on their data.
- Attach downloadable student documents to seating plans.
- Annotate seating plans with notes and comments.
Behavior and Achievement
- Add, view and analyse student conduct in a few clicks.
- Optional integration with compatible school systems.
- Seating plan recommendations based on school-wide behavior data.
Attendance
- Record student attendance directly from your seating plan.
- Optional integration with compatible school systems.
- Tutor group dashboards for fast intervention. Preview
- Attendance reports based on school-wide data.
Magic Reports
- Write personalised student reports in a few seconds.
- Safely uses AI to generate reports based on student data and teacher input.
- No personally-identifiable data is submitted to third parties.
Preferences
- Accommodate your students' preferences for where they sit and who they work with.
- Add your own preferences or override your students.
- Seating Plan's intelligent algorithm takes your requirements and preferences, generates thousands of seating plans and picks the best one. All in about two seconds.
Homework
- Record homework completion directly on your seating plan.
- Track homework progress in a color-coded markbook.
- Assign tasks to students online or offline.
Name Learning
- Learn your students' names before you meet them for your first lesson.
- Use the Seating Plan companion apps for iOS and Android to learn names anywhere, any time.
Teacher Tools
- Pick a random student with the Wheel of Names.
- Assign students to groups with the Group Maker.
- Set a timer for assessments and activities with the Exam Clock.
Every system. Every country. Every school.
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Secure and Safe
- Data protection is at the core of Seating Plan, keeping your information - and that of your students - private and secure.
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Synchronised
- Your class rosters imported automatically from your school's MIS/SIS.
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You're in Control
- Schools decide which data to import and display.
America's Favorite Seating Chart Generator
- US Teachers
- 40,907
- US Schools
- 3,675
Why do schools love Seating Plan?
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User friendly, and the support staff are readily available and always willing to help us troubleshoot if something is not working!
Kelsey ScarboroughAssistant Principal / Director, Simmons Middle School -
It’s simple, easy to use for basic seating plans. And there are some excellent tools if you take more time to learn them.
A well-made seating plan can have a tremendously positive impact on student behaviour.
Janice LambTeacher, Riverview Collegiate Institute -
Seating Plan is a fantastic piece of software, and I'd argue it's an essential for any school.
Having consistent seating plans across the organisation with mapped data, student photos, management tools and so much more has saved us both time and many headaches. Having clear seating plans is a bonus for inspection readiness, as it allows us to provide inspectors with an overview of the class on one single page, providing essential context to any lesson observation.
Rob is fantastic with responding to support queries swiftly and with expert knowledge. I highly recommend this platform to anyone.
Nathanial LivelyDigital Lead, Capital School Bahrain
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This product has every single feature that I have been looking for for the past decade. It's easy to use and incredibly affordable.
On top of all that, Rob is super responsive to questions. He fixed a minor issue for me in a matter of minutes.
Paul CancellieriScience Teacher / Technology Contact, Rolesville Middle School -
I don't have many products where the technical support and service is as amazing as this one. The developer always responds, quickly fixes errors and bugs that pop up, and is always open to suggestions about new features!
The platform's features have made it easier for our staff to manage seating arrangements, especially during events and exams.
Nathan DoellingIT Director, Seoul Foreign School -
Seating Plan is a great tool, the customer service is great and quite frankly, I think it's great value for money.
Jonas GarphammarIT Support, Erik Dahlbergsgymnasiet
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Their program is intuitive, which makes it easy for new teachers to adapt. You can use some, most, or all of its features and the program will help in the classroom.
I know this is just a seating chart: but there are other programs that have made making seating charts difficult. Seating Plan is EASY.
Keri TMath Teacher, Willis Jepson Middle School -
We joined Seating Plan with the Platinum subscription this September and it has revolutionised many aspects of our lesson arrangements. It is quick and easy to design your classrooms and add your teaching groups.
One particular function which has proved very useful is the learn names function which enables you to learn the names of your students prior to meeting them! I would highly recommend.
Duncan RhodesDeputy Headteacher, The King's (The Cathedral) School -
Seating plans are an essential part of classroom management. Seating Plan is the easiest way to organise seating plans.
I created a new classroom and seating plan in under 5 minutes.
Also, the new Teacher Tools (exam clock, random group maker, wheel of names) are so handy.
Megan NicholsonTeacher, James Sheahan Catholic High School
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Time saving
Letting teachers be teachers since 2015
- Hours saved per teacher this year
- 6.5
- Plans per school
- 291
- Teacher-time saved per school this year
- £8,273
Pricing
Plans for teachers. Plans for schools.
The Seating Plan Man
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Rob Cowen
Founder
For 14 years, Rob taught science at high schools in London, San Francisco and Manchester. In October 2015, he got so fed up with making seating plans by hand that he decided to build a better way. 167,044 teachers around the world liked what he built.
Since 2025, Rob has run Seating Plan full-time from Malmö, Sweden, focusing on outstanding customer service and continually improving the platform to meet the needs of teachers.
Rob also created the popular GCSE and A Level revision app BRaiN Glue, the YouTube channel Cowen Physics, and tutors A Level and IB Physics students.
