Seating chart generator
Seating chart generator
A rows-by-columns chart filled with your class list in a shuffled order, printable from the same page.
How this is calculated
Seats = rows x columns. The names are shuffled from the seed and dealt into the grid row by row, left to right. Any name past the last seat is counted and named in the result rather than dropped, and any seat past the last name is left blank.
- The chart is a plain grid. It does not know the room, where the board is, which students need a front seat or who should not sit together; those constraints have to be applied by hand to the arrangement it gives you.
- Generate again reshuffles the whole class. Nothing about the order is retained between presses, so print the arrangement you want to keep.
A rows-by-columns chart filled with your class list in a shuffled order, printable from the same page.
A grid, and the constraints it cannot see
The seats are rows times columns. The names are shuffled from a seed and dealt into the grid row by row, left to right. A name beyond the last seat is named under the chart rather than dropped, and a seat beyond the last name is left blank, so a mismatch between the class list and the room is visible instead of silently absorbed.
The chart is a plain grid. It does not know where the board is, which students need a front seat, who should not sit together or which seat is broken. Those constraints are applied by hand to the arrangement it gives you. Generate again reshuffles the class; nothing about the previous order is kept.
Questions readers ask
Can I keep one arrangement and print it?
Yes. The chart is printed from the page, and the arrangement on screen is the one that prints. Generate again replaces it, so print or save before pressing it if the order matters.
What if there are more seats than names?
The extra seats are shown blank and the result says how many. The chart stays rows by columns, because the room does not shrink to the class.
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