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Lab tables seating chart

Eight lab benches of three, lab partners drawn at random, and the two pairs who should never share a Bunsen burner at different benches. The maker is loaded with this room: paste your own class, shuffle, then print.

24 students

Paste from a spreadsheet, your gradebook or a roster export: "Last, First", numbers and ID columns are handled. Up to 40 students.

Sample class:
Room layout

24 seats

Seating rules keep apart, front row

Keep-apart students never share a pair or table and never sit directly beside, in front of or behind each other. Lock a seat (tap it on the chart) to keep a student exactly there.

More options teacher's desk, empty seats

Runs in your browser: student names never leave this device.

Table 8
Table 7
Table 6
Table 5
Table 4
Table 3
Table 2
Table 1
Front of room Teacher's desk

24 students in 24 seats · all 3 rules kept

How to set it up

In a science lab the seating chart is also a safety plan. Lab partners share equipment and a workspace, so a keep-apart pair means separate benches, which is exactly how SeatSheet treats every seat at a table. Students who need to be near the demonstration desk go on the front-row list and land at the benches nearest the board. Print the teacher view for your clipboard and the student view for the lab door.

  1. Paste the class list.
  2. Choose Groups and set the number of benches and students per bench (3 to 6).
  3. Add keep-apart pairs and front-bench students under Seating rules.
  4. Make the chart, swap partners by dragging, and print both views.

Tips

  • Lock one student who knows the equipment at each bench, then Shuffle the others for new lab partners.
  • Benches of three keep everyone busy: one reads the procedure, one handles equipment, one records.
  • Keep the printed chart with your lab safety contract so a sub knows who sits where during labs.

Lab tables seating chart: questions

Can lab partners rotate every unit?

Press Shuffle for a new random draw. A rotation that remembers past partners is planned for Pro, not built yet.

Do benches count as neighbours of each other?

No. Only students at the same bench count as next to each other, so a keep-apart pair is split across benches.

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See all 8 layouts → or start from your own class.

Pro · planned, not built yet

Planned: SeatSheet Pro for teachers with five periods a day

None of these work today. Everything above this section is free and works now. Join the waitlist and we’ll email you once if and when Pro launches.

Planned

Saved classes

Will keep several classes on this device so you reopen Period 3 in one tap instead of pasting the list again.

Planned

Class periods

Will share one room layout across all your periods, each with its own list, locks and rules.

Planned

Seat rotation

Will remember past charts and reshuffle so students sit with new neighbours each time.

Planned

Student photos

Will put a photo on each seat for subs, stored on this device only.

Planned

Bigger classes

Will seat up to 60 students and draw custom room layouts.

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