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Seat Assignment

After you create or reset a seating chart layout, you must assign students to seats, either manually or automatically. You can first use the automated function, and then manually move students between seats.

How to Automatically Assign Seats

If you want PowerGrade to assign seats, do so before manually assigning seats; if any seats are moved around after you initially create the layout, they will be skipped in the automatic seat assignment process, since this process uses only the original layout arrangement.

  1. Choose an available class from the Classes menu. The class page for the selected class appears. For more information on accessing classes, see the section "Open Classes."
  2. Choose Windows > Seating Chart (or click the Seating icon). The Seating Chart page appears.
  3. Click the "Assign Students to Seats" tab, if necessary. The "Assign Students to Seats" page displays a list of students on the left and the seating chart layout on the right.

    Note: If the message "No photo" appears in place of a student, that student does not have a photo in the system. You can assign students without photos to seats.

  4. Indicate the seating order by doing one of the following:
    • Select the Alphabetically option to sort by last name.
    • Select the Shuffle option to sort randomly.
  5. Do one of the following:
    • Select From Top to start the sort order with the top left seat.
    • Select From Bottom to start the sort order with the bottom right seat.
  6. Click "Auto assign seats." PowerGrade assigns students to seats according to your selections.

  7. Either click Save or press Return (Mac) or Enter (Windows) to save and close the seating chart.

How to Manually Assign Seats

After you create or reset a seating chart layout, assign students to seats.

  1. Choose an available class from the Classes menu. The class page for the selected class appears. For more information on accessing classes, see the section "Open Classes."
  2. Choose Windows > Seating Chart (or click the Seating icon).
  3. In the Create Seating Chart dialog, click the "Assign Students to Seats" tab, if necessary. The "Assign Students to Seats" page displays a list of students on the left and the seating chart layout on the right.

    Note: If the message "No photo" appears in place of a student, that student does not have a photo in the system. You can assign students without photos to seats.

  4. Do one of the following:
    • Drag and drop seats to arrange the seat layout.
    • Drag the student photos on the left to the seats on the right. When a student is assigned to a seat, the name grays out and you cannot assign that student to an additional seat.

      Note: You do not need to assign all students to all seats at this time. Also, you cannot assign a student to more than one seat.

    • Drag and drop students from one seat to another to switch seats.
  5. Either click Save or press Return (Mac) or Enter (Windows) to save and close the seating chart.


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