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U-shape seating chart

A horseshoe puts every student in view of every other student, which is why discussion, seminar and language classes love it. The maker is loaded with this room: paste your own class, shuffle, then print.

22 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.

Front of room Teacher's desk

22 students in 24 seats · 2 empty · 1 rule kept

How to set it up

In a U-shape the open end faces the board and the teacher works inside the U. SeatSheet builds the horseshoe from two numbers, seats down each side and seats across the back, and treats the two seats on each arm nearest the board as the front. Keep-apart students are never placed side by side anywhere along the U, including around the corners. The teacher view shows the room as you see it from the board, with the back of the U at the top.

  1. Paste the names and choose U-shape.
  2. Set the seats down each side and across the back; 8 + 8 + 8 seats 24 students.
  3. Add keep-apart pairs and front-seat students under Seating rules.
  4. Make the chart, swap seats by dragging, and print the view you need.

Tips

  • For Socratic seminars, lock your discussion leaders at the two corners of the U, where everyone can see them.
  • Short on space? Fewer seats down each side and more across the back keeps the U shallow.
  • Empty seats fill from the front by default; choose "Spread out" to leave gaps around the U instead.

U-shape seating chart: questions

Which seats count as the front in a U-shape?

The two seats on each arm nearest the board. Students on the front-row list are placed there.

Does it do a double U or a circle?

Not yet: the free version makes one U with up to 13 seats down each side and 14 across the back (40 seats).

Pairs seating chart 22 students · Pairs · 24 seats High school seating chart 34 students · Rows · 36 seats Substitute teacher seating chart 25 students · Rows · 25 seats

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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