Seating Plans

What is a seating plan?

A seating plan shows where students sit in a classroom or exam hall. It may also show important information about students, such as their grades, their photographs and any exam access arrangements.

Why do we need seating plans?

For teachers:

A clear seating plan allows teachers to assign seats to students to optimise for positive behaviour, collaboration and attainment. For example, a teacher may choose to keep chatty students on opposite sides of the room to reduce their temptation to distract or be distracted.

Some teachers like to use Kagan learning structures to group students in such a way that maximises student cooperation, allowing them to support and learn from each other.

Having key data on seating plans, such as special educational needs or target grades, allows teachers to see at a glance where more support might be needed, and to seat students in a way to maximise this.

Photographs on seating plans can make learning student names quicker and easier.

For students:

Students appreciate structure and consistency in their lessons, especially if their lives outside of school lack this. By assigning seats to students, a teacher can help them to succeed by improving behaviour, focus and collaboration.

For school leaders and inspectors:

A seating plan can provide instant context for any classroom visitor, whether that’s a leader doing a lesson observation or an inspector visiting the school. At a glance, they can identify students and see attainment and support information.

How do I make a seating plan?

1 Layout your classroom: Just drag and drop, rotate and resize to place furniture around your room.
3 Import your class lists: Mega Seating Plan integrates with services including Wonde, Clever, ClassLink, Skolon, Google Classroom™ and Microsoft Teams, meaning your class lists are synchronised automatically with your school.; Or import your class list from any spreadsheet.
3 Generate a seating plan: Use Mega Seating Plan’s artificial intelligence to place students automatically based on their preferences, their data and your expertise. Or generate a random, boy-girl or alphabetical plan. Then just drag and drop until it’s perfect.