Smart Seat is a paid app for iOS ($4.99) for your iPhone or iPad. It is one of my main classroom management tools, so I thought it worthy of sharing, especially at this time of the year.
Smart Seat is primarily a seating chart app. You can set up the layout of your room so it reflects the number and placement of your students and desks. But it does so much more! You can take attendance - and track it in a spreadsheet. You can take pictures of the students so it will show on the app. You can use the "Random" feature to randomly call on students. (They LOVE this!) You can keep notes on the students - running records, behavior infractions, reminders for calling home, etc. and export to email! And the seating chart itself can be printed or exported as a PDF to email or Dropbox.
The seating chart is very easy to use, with a drag and drop method. You can customize it to show pictures or not, first name, last name, even nicknames! This is so helpful in learning their names and faces. And invaluable when you have to leave a seating chart for a substitute!
My favorite feature is you can use this to create learning groups at random. Just select how many groups you need, and click on "Create". And if you don't like the grouping, you can keep clicking on create and it will continue to make new groups. Voila!
Very user friendly and in my opinion indispensable!!! It can be found in the App Store or click here for more information: Smart Seat. If you already have the app, check out these FAQ!
Be hAPPy!
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