Seating charts that pull their weight

Build your room, set the rules — keep these two apart, front row for this one, never seated alone — and shuffle. Then take attendance, cold-call fairly, make groups, and print a whole-day sub packet from the same chart.

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RosterHelper has no accounts and no server — names, photos, accommodations, and attendance are processed and stored entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, tracked, or sold. Back up to a file any time.

One chart, a whole classroom of jobs

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Seating

Rules & accommodations

Keep-apart, sit-together, front row, near the teacher, near the door, must sit alone. Private IEP/504-style flags generate the rules for you — and no student is ever seated with zero neighbors unless flagged.

Seating

One-click shuffle

Honors every rule, flags what can't be satisfied, keeps pinned students put, and leans the class toward the front, back, or either side of the room. Undo covers every big change.

Daily use

Attendance in two clicks

Tap a name: blue here, yellow tardy, red absent. Print or export a day or week log with P / T / A per student — straight from the chart you already have open.

Daily use

Fair cold-call & teach mode

A projector-friendly view with a Pick button that spins the room like a prize wheel — nobody gets picked twice until everyone's been picked once, and nobody looks singled out on screen.

Daily use

Partners & groups

Random pairs or groups of 3–5 that remember past pairings and avoid repeats, honor your rules, save under a name, and print as a one-page handout.

Printables

Whole-day sub packets

Fill in your schedule and lessons once; print or download a packet — a typeset plans page plus every class's seating chart, charts in landscape, faces included if you want them.

Printables

Name tents & emergency lists

Fold-in-half desk cards for back-to-school week, and a grab-and-go class list with check-off boxes for drills — one click each.

Rosters

Paste or upload any roster

Paste names straight from PowerSchool or a spreadsheet, upload CSV/XLSX, or import eTac PDFs — including the picture seating chart, so student faces appear right on the desks.

Rosters

Periods, sharing & backups

Save a roster per period and reuse it across charts. Share a chart, roster, or room layout with a colleague as a plain link. Back everything up to a file, restore anywhere.

Set up your room before first period

No sign-up, no download, nothing to install — the whole tool loads as a single page and keeps working even on locked-down school networks.

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