Seat Assign Tool
This tool allows you to download a list of seats for the fixed seating rooms that are most requested for exams so that you may assign students to seats. These lists can be shown at a variety of spacings and are accompanied by a schematic map of the seats. Preview features of the Seat Assign Tool or simply click a room below (see "Request header is too large" errors if you encounter that error below).
Fixed Seating Rooms by 25Live Location Name
Releases and Known Issues
Release 0.8 (9/28/26)
Goal: Create downloadable seat lists for 40 fixed seating rooms used most often for midterms in order to replace seat lists that have been informally maintained by instructors. Seat lists can be generated at various spacings (e.g. every other, every third seat). The accompanying schematic map visually represents the seat list at various spacing and can be projected for arriving students to help them find their assigned seat.
| Known Issue | Workaround |
|---|---|
| Wide rooms flow off screen | Use browser to Zoom out until whole room is visible (Cntl and -, or Cmd and -) |
| Usable seats inflexibly follows set spacing pattern | Manually adjust seat numbers in csv to shift seats over or to skip certain seats |
Schematic map update 10/9/26
Schematic map update 10/15/26
Release 1.0 (future)
Goal: Ensure all text above schematic map wraps if user zooms in or has smaller screen. Allow users to see larger schematic maps by scrolling horizontally rather than zooming out. Create a separate projectable version of the seat schematic that eliminates extraneous text, enlarges navigation text, and shrinks seats until the entire room is visible.
Release 2.0 (future)
Goal: Allow instructors to opt out of using certain seats for various reasons, including aligning students behind each other, or changing the ratio of right- and left-handed desks.
Release 3.0 (future)
Goal: A series of releases to allow instructors to randomly and manually assign students to certain seats in certain rooms, along with related functionality.
Contact Us
| Functionality Suggestions | Damaged seats or desks | Inaccuracies or broken functionality |
|---|---|---|
| See Releases and Known Issues above to see what's coming up, then visit Seat Assign Suggestions to log ideas. | Ask Departmental facility manager to repair furniture as a courtesy to other classes (will not be updated here). | If seat numbering or count is wrong for a room, or buttons or links are broken, email seatassign@lists.stanford.edu and we will update it as soon as we can. |