• How do I create a new seating plan?

  Create a classroom seating chart in seconds The easiest way is to follow the on-screen tutorial that will appear if you haven't yet created a seating plan. Either click the 'Seating Plans' tile on the dashboard, or choose 'Seating Plans' from the toolbar on the left of your screen. Click 'Create a new seating plan'. From the drop down menu, select the class that you wish to make a seating plan for. If this list is empty: [How do I import a new class?](/en/arFeatured

• How can I change the name of my seating plan?

  By default, seating plans are named after their associated class and classroom. However, you can easily give a seating plan a custom name. When viewing your seating plan, click on the name of the seating plan. In the text box, enter your custom name. Click anywhere outside the text box to save your new name.Few readers

• How can I fit longer data on my seating plan?

  The data fields are intended for small amounts of text, such as grades, SEN codes etc. There is not space to display large chunks of text directly on the seats. However, you can enter longer text into the notes field. These notes can be displayed on screen by clicking the paperclip icon on a student, or printed in a list below your seating plan. ![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/9f51051c7cFew readers

• How can I seat students based on their preferences?

  This feature is available to any users on a paid (Silver, Gold or Platinum) plan Seating Plan is now smart enough to be able to ask your students where they want to sit, consider all of their preferences (as well as your teacher preferences) and create a seating plan. Open any seating plan for the class you want to manage. On the left toolbar, click the 'Student preferences' button. YouFew readers

• How can I use Smart Sorting to arrange my students automatically?

  To learn more about how to use Smart Sorting to automatically arrange student by their and your preferences, click here. The Smart Sorting tool allows you to arrange your students automatically, based on their characteristics, their preferences and your preferences. To access Smart Sorting, click the 'Rearrange' button on the left toolbar. ![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/9f51051c7c5cd80Few readers

• How do I add colour codes to my students?

  If your school has a Platinum subscription, automatic colour codes can be set up by your administrator. Click here for instructions. You can add colour codes to students. When you have 'data view' switched on you will see these as little stripes of colour on a student. You can also make the colour code fill the seat by clicking theSome readers

• How do I add notes?

  If your school has centrally set notes for any students in this class, the notes column on the Edit Class page will be disabled Go to the Edit Class page and select the desired class. In the final column (labelled 'Notes') enter the text you would like to attach to a student. On your seating plans, those students with notes will appear with a little paperclip. Click this to view the notes.Few readers

• How do I add photos to my seating plans?

  Photographs on seating plans are available to all users on Silver, Gold or Platinum plans. Photographs are automatically imported for those on the Platinum (UK) plan, so these instructions do not apply. Schools with a Gold subscription can bulk upload photos from the admin page. Bronze users will need to upgrade to add photos to their seating plans. On the side menu, choose 'Student Photos'. If you don't see this menu option, you may need toSome readers

• How do I change the colour of desks?

  This article is about the basic and gendered colours of desks on your seating plan. If you're looking for how to apply custom colour codes, read this article. If you're wanting to automatically colour code students based on their data, click here. This feature is only available to those with individual Silver subscriptions. If you're a Bronze subscriber, yFew readers

• How do I delete a seating plan?

  Deleted a plan by mistake? If your school has a whole-school subscription (Platinum or Gold) an administrator from your school can restore it from the recycle bin within 30 days. There are two ways to delete an unwanted seating plan: From the Home page click the checkbox next to the seating plan you would like to delete, followed by the 'Delete selected seating plans' button. ![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/9f51051c7c5cd800/imFew readers

• How do I download my seating plan?

  Export your seating plans for offline storage as either a PNG or a PDFFew readers

• How do I flip the perspective of my seating plan?

  By default, seating plans have the back of the classroom at the top of the screen, reflecting the perspective of a teacher standing at the front of the room To view a seating plan from the students' perspective (useful for projecting onto an interactive whiteboard), toggle the 'Teacher perspective' button on the seating plan toolbar. This will flip the view, so that the back of the cFew readers

• How do I get gender colour codes to appear?

  Gender colour coding can be toggled on/off on your seating plan. Schools with a Platinum or Gold subscription can change the colour scheme or turn off gender colour coding altogether. To ensure that genders are picked up for your students, your class' 'Gender' column should have the following data (not case sensitive: For male students: "M", "Male" or "Boy" For female students: "F", "Female" or "Girl" Any other values will assign the student as gender neutralFew readers

• How do I make the font larger or smaller on seating plans?

  To increase or decrease the font size: Make sure that both the 'Data' and 'Photos' buttons on the toolbar are set to 'Off'. Beneath the toolbar, a slider will appear. Use this to vary the font size.Few readers

• How do I print a seating plan?

  Click 'Print/export' button on the sidebar. Select your preferred print option.Few readers

• How do I print my plans in bulk?

  You can print one plan or multiple plans directly from the Plans dashboard. To print one plan Click on the three dots at the top-right of the card for the seating plan you want to print. Select 'Print plan' from the menu. A newFew readers

• How do I print notes?

  This article tells you how you can add student notes to your seating plans To print student notes below your seating plan: Click the 'Print seating plan with notes' option from the side menu: Your student notes will be printed in a list below your seating plan:Few readers

• How do I recover a deleted seating plan?

  Deleted rooms and seating plans are sent to a recycle bin. After 30 days they are permanently deleted. On the navigation sidebar, select the 'Recycle bin' option (if you can't see it, you may need to toggle 'Powerful' mode on). Click 'Restore' on the seating plan or classroom that you wish to recover. ![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/9/f/5/1/9f51051c7c5cFew readers

• How do I save my seating plan as a PDF?

  Download you seating plan as a PDFSome readers

• How do I share a seating plan with a colleague?

  If your school has a whole-school subscription, all seating plans within your school can be viewed by going to 'Seating plans' -> 'View all plans in my school' from the menu bar. The instructions below are most useful for those without a whole-school subscription or for those who want easy access to a colleague's classes/plans from their home page. Before you can share a seating plan with a co-worker, you must first add them as a colleaguePopular

• What is the difference between Smart Sorting and Simple Sorting?

  When you click the 'Rearrange' button on the seating plan, you have two options for automatically arranging students: Simple Sorting and Smart Sorting. Your decision depends on the complexity of the sort you want to apply: Simple Sorting is much faster and will give almost perfect results, but can only handle one rule. Smart Sorting can consider multiple factors at once, including pre-made groups, and student/teacher preferences. However, it will take longer to produce a result and the reFew readers

• How do I use Avoid Mode to separate students?

  Avoid mode has been replaced with the more powerful and flexible 'Student preferences' tool. Avoid mode remains available in v1 classrooms, but is not available in newer v2 classrooms. Avoid mode can be used to separate selected students from each other. It works by maximising the distance between selected students. Click the 'Avoid modeFew readers

• How do I zoom in or out of my seating plan?

  Your seating plan should automatically resize to fit the available space on your screen. If you want to manually zoom in or out, use the controls at the top of the toolbar:Few readers

• What is the student waiting area?

  When a new student is added to a class list, that student will be automatically added to your seating plans for that class, too. They will be added to the 'Student waiting area', which appears as a blue tab on the right-hand side of your page: Clicking the tab will expand it: You can drag students from the waitingPopular