What is Mega Seating Plan?
Mega Seating Plan was created by UK school teacher Rob Cowen in 2015 to help fellow teachers focus on teaching and learning by generating their data-rich seating plans instantly.
It synchronises directly with your school's MIS using Wonde to import student data, photos, assessments and more. Mega Seating Plan uses machine learning to arrange students automatically, based on your requirements and student behaviour. It is compatible with all MIS/SIS systems in all countries.
A typical school with a Mega Seating Plan subscription saves over £16,000 per year in teacher time and is 52% more likely to be graded Ofsted Outstanding.
Behaviour management tools allow student conduct events to be viewed, added and analysed, right from your seating plans.
Mega Seating Plan's pricing is open and transparent: from £7.03 per teacher per year for a Platinum whole-school subscription.
All subscriptions begin with a fully-featured, no obligation 30 day free trial, so that your teachers can discover how great Mega Seating Plan is. Or, try the live demo right now to instantly see the benefits of Mega Seating Plan.
Book a call with Rob to find out how Mega Seating Plan can help your school.
Educational Impact
 Company | Business Name: Mega Seating Plan Ltd HQ Location: United Kingdom Founded: 2015 |
| Age Range | 0-4, 5-7, 8-10, 11-13, 14-16, 17-18, 19+ |
 Features | DataPhotosManual ImportAutomatic Syncing With Mis/sisSeating Plan GenerationReport WriterName Learning ToolDrag And DropAutomatic Seating LayoutsBehaviour ManagementBehaviour AnalysisSims Writebacks |
 Languages | English |
 Accessibility | Robust features |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy PolicyGDPR |
 Requirements | Internet - Low BandwidthInternet - High BandwidthDesktop - MacDesktop - WindowsDesktop - ChromebookDesktop - LinuxMobile - iPad Works on any device, but a larger screen is more suitable than a phone. |
 Set Up | Whole school subscriptions are usually up and running within 24 hours of placing an order, including generation of all teacher accounts and import of all student data (via Wonde) |
 Training | Live OnlineDocumentation Step-by-step guides to almost every feature are available at https://help.seatingplan.com |
 Support | EmailFAQs/ForumKnowledge Base24/7 Live Rep All support requests are dealt with same day, most within hours, some instantly. Support is available via live chat and email, supported by a comprehensive online knowledge base. |
| Home Learning | School must create the account. Coming very soon: Parent access to students' achievement and behaviour analysis. |
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Mega Seating Plan PricingPricing Plans Free TrialPaid Subscription Mega Seating Plan pricing starts from £5.63 / per-user * Platinum plan (automatic data import via Wonde): £12.50/teacher/year 25% discount for government-funded schools. 25% discount for three year commitment. Further discounts are available for multi-school purchases (e.g. academy chains).  Optimised for a quick response | |
 Special Offer | Use voucher code EDTECHIMPACT to save 10% off your first year |
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Mega Seating Plan Reviews
from 43 Verified Reviews
User rating
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Oct 2024
It's saved me hours of work, and once you've mastered it, the system is fast and efficient.
Tim found Mega Seating Plan:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“So easy to redesign a plan. Can instantly adjust when asked to keep students apart, or conversely if I want to pair up weaker students with higher attaining students.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Pairing of weaker students with higher attaining students. Enables pupils to teach eachother, boosting confidence and oracy.”
- Significantly improves school processes“Initial requirement is boy girl seating, then adjusting for SEN. Done easily.”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Can use avoid mode. Can quickly design a new arrangement of desks when necessary.”
Paul Cancellieri
Science Teacher/Technology Contact
Used Mega Seating Plan daily for 7–12 months
Oct 2024
This product has every single feature that I have been looking for for the past decade. It's easy to use and incredibly affordable. On top of all that, Rob is super responsive to questions. He fixed a minor issue for me in a matter of minutes.
Paul Cancellieri found Mega Seating Plan:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Shortens the time to make seating plans that are fair, organized and provide the best learning experience for students.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“My students are more engaged with learning because I can more easily place them in locations that foster attention and focus.”
- Moderately improves school processes“Communicating seating plans to students, colleagues, and substitute teachers can be challenging. Mega Seating Plan streamlines it incredibly.”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“By using the color-coding system, I am able to mark which students are best-suited to be separated and which can handle seating near one another. This has made my classroom a more active but simultaneously peaceful place.”
Mikayla
Secondary Science Teacher
Used Mega Seating Plan weekly for 1-2 years
Oct 2024
I already have - our new Chemistry teacher just purchased the Silver plan last week after seeing how it was working for me. Last year I recommended the free version to everyone at my site, and this year I have already recommended the paid version to my department.
Mikayla found Mega Seating Plan:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“The district provided seating chart creator (through our SIS) is terrible. MSP allows me to change a name to a nickname, have more than one arrangement for seats, and so many more things. The biggest one is being able to have the proper name for a kid show fully on the seating chart when I print it.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“When I print my weekly seating charts, I don't have to go through and white out and make other marks on the page, because I have the names kids use in my class already on the paper, and their full name shows. On the district provided seating chart maker, kids with long names are truncated (often not in the preferred location for the kids), so not having to alter the printed seating chart every time I need to print one is a huge time saver.”
- Significantly improves school processes“It's easy to create new working groups for my students - they learn how to work with new people. At the same time, I can easily make sure my students with IEPs/504s are at the front of the room and I can make sure that kids sit with other students or avoid other students.”
- Moderately improves behaviour or wellbeing“Definitely has eased my mind over creating seating plans. Since I have been a teacher, I have felt it necessary to make sure that my students learn how to work with a variety of other people, and MSP makes that easy to make sure I am ALSO following 504/IEP accommodations.”
Divya
Secondary Mathematics Teacher
Used Mega Seating Plan occasionally for 3-4 years
Sep 2024
Divya found Mega Seating Plan:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency
- Significantly improves school processes
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing
Karen
Second in Maths Department
Used Mega Seating Plan monthly for 1-2 years
Sep 2024
Karen found Mega Seating Plan:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“seating plans created and amended in seconds with or without detailed information”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“all required info can be found in one place”
- Significantly improves school processes
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing
John
Subject Leader Psychology
Used Mega Seating Plan occasionally for 1-2 years
Sep 2024
A great resource but wasn't available at the start of term due to an IT problem connecting SIMS to Mega Seating Plan. This was the one day in the year when all staff needed it!
John found Mega Seating Plan:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Saves me doing manual plans as students names, photos and classroom layouts are available,”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“No”
- Moderately improves school processes
- Does not significantly improve behaviour or wellbeing
Hekmat
director arabic and islamic
Used Mega Seating Plan monthly for 1-2 years
Sep 2024
Hekmat found Mega Seating Plan:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency
- Significantly improves school processes
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing
Monica
Teacher
Used Mega Seating Plan daily for 5 years+
Sep 2024
Great features in "pay"-version.
Monica found Mega Seating Plan:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“I can easily see who is absent each lesson”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Students know what to expect when they enter classroom, which makes the start of the lesson smooth, which is efficient.”
- Slightly improves school processes“It would, if all teachers used it...”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Same answer as a previous one: Students know what to do as they enter the classroom and this improves behaviour and wellbeing.”
Sep 2024
We've had a very posiitve experience with Mega Seating Plan. Rob offers great support with any technical issues and is always willing to take on feedback about improvements.
Jonny found Mega Seating Plan:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Mega Seating Plan's ability to sync with SIMs allows teachers to get straight on with planning effective seating arrangements without having to worry about time-consuming imports of data. Having a single platform that pulls through all the key aspects has been a significant time-saver for staff. The easy and intuitive pages support staff in just getting on with the task at hand.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency
- Significantly improves school processes“Mega Seating Plan supports our whole school expectation that all classes have a seating plan that the teacher leads. The ability to share classroom formats or to find other people's seating plans helps staff in practical ways daily.”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“The addition of a name learning facility to Mega Seating Plan has supported staff to take time to know who is in their class, sometimes even before having taught them! This is a great signal to students of their value and the priority we place on great relationships.”
Marium
art teacher
Used Mega Seating Plan daily for 3-4 years
Sep 2024
it helps us work in organised way
Marium found Mega Seating Plan:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“kids sits according to their ability”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“its easy to provide work with quality assurance”
- Significantly improves school processes“its makes teaching organised”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“students are placed on right places”
Jonathon Quinn
Head of Digital Services
Used Mega Seating Plan occasionally for 3-4 years
Sep 2024
Excellent value for money with top notch support from Rob, who obviously knows his own product inside and out. Additionally, there's always a new feature or development every year!
Jonathon Quinn found Mega Seating Plan:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency
- Moderately improves school processes
- Slightly improves behaviour or wellbeing
DANIELLE
Teacher
Used Mega Seating Plan daily for 1-2 years
Jul 2024
All the features at the free level give teachers an advantage in organizing where students sit. I wish that the seating chart can collect daily data, such as learning targets, that can be transferred to a learning management system.
DANIELLE found Mega Seating Plan:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Easily sort students 1) by quickly switching students 2)by organizing students into meaningful small instruction groups using the color features.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Students spend less time waiting for me to call them one by one to tell them where to sit. Instead, I post the Mega Seating Chart and students find their seat by using the provided land marks such as door, window, teacher's desk, etc.”
- Slightly improves school processes
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Students become worried when I open the Mega Seating website because they know how fast I can visually show them that their seats will be changed if their behavior is not adjusted.”
Jun 2024
It's so easy to use. I've already got the other members of my department using it
Tim found Mega Seating Plan:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Can create a seating plan in a matter of minutes and then it's extremely easy to adjust it. The transfer of pupil data is quite easy; just copy and paste. Really like the facility to colour code and also flip perspectives.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“I can just show the seating plan on the projector at the beginning of any lesson.”
- Moderately improves school processes“We share seating plans with cover supervisors and teaching assistants”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“We have school policies on seating plans. I can also use the "avoid" mode to keep pupils apart.”
Jun 2024
It saves hours of report writing as I am dyslexia and saves so much time structuring my phrases
Kirsti found Mega Seating Plan:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“report writing is reduced with magic reports”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“report writing”
- Slightly improves school processes“I cant think of any as we use adifferent seating plan software for lessons in the school”
- Slightly improves behaviour or wellbeing“my wellbeing in helping structure reports”
Jun 2024
Marcus found Mega Seating Plan:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Det tar tid att göra placeringslistor för hand”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency
- Slightly improves school processes
- Does not significantly improve behaviour or wellbeing
Lora
Teacher
Used Mega Seating Plan monthly for 3-4 years
Jun 2024
Mega seating is excellent for most of my needs. I would like some more flexibility/options for printing (i.e. format, shading), but it's great overall.
Lora found Mega Seating Plan:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Easier to plan/manipulate seating charts than other options.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Quickly see student data on seating charts”
- Slightly improves school processes“Meaning of "school processes" is unclear”
- Moderately improves behaviour or wellbeing“If I make a good seating chart!”
Stephanie
Mathematics Teacher
Used Mega Seating Plan monthly for 1-2 years
Jun 2024
Now that it is not free it is harder to use. The grid is very faint and hard to see sometimes for the seating.
Stephanie found Mega Seating Plan:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Nice to be able to paste names into a spread sheet and then be able to assign seats. Nice to print out sheet for record, quick to move students around if the information is saved.”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency
- Does not significantly improve school processes
- Does not improve behaviour or wellbeing
Jay
Science Teacher
Used Mega Seating Plan daily for 0–3 months
Jun 2024
Have already spoken to IT about this software. She was very much interested. Unfortunately, she resigned before the end of the school year. With her, she asked me to give workshops on this. I am not sure of the new leader now, and if Mega will be embraced by the school as a whole. Individually, I will still support this.
Jay found Mega Seating Plan:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“No.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Student attention increased significantly. I change seats every class time they walk into class. It is funny to see them to watch the screens to see where they will be seating that day.”
- Slightly improves school processes“No.”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Student attention focused. They are away from their friends or friends that will distract them.”
Paul
Teacher
Used Mega Seating Plan weekly for 4-6 months
Jun 2024
Easy to use, good value
Paul found Mega Seating Plan:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Rapidly change seating arrangements and print/share seating charts”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Better seating improves student engagement”
- Significantly improves school processes“Faster attendance recording, better attention to announcements”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Less arguments between students because they are easily separated”
Jun 2024
It does what it needs to do. Saves us time and is easy to use.
Julie found Mega Seating Plan:
- Does not significantly reduce teacher workload“Not having to draw seating plans and then having to update them. Mega seating plan is much quicker.”
- Does not significantly improve teaching efficiency“No”
- Does not improve school processes
- Moderately improves behaviour or wellbeing“Can move students apart easily on plan. Can separate students who want to be apart.”
Hayley
Head of Computer Science
Used Mega Seating Plan weekly for 3-4 years
Jun 2024
I have tried different only seating plan generators and this ticks all the boxes.
Hayley found Mega Seating Plan:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Data is prepopulated, allows easy creation of Data Rich Seating Plan. Can save templates for room layout and reuse every year. Easy to move students around, by just dragging them.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“I use it to random name generation when questioning students.”
- Slightly improves school processes
- Slightly improves behaviour or wellbeing
Jun 2024
fantastic tool - it is just a shame that they have severely curtailed the usability of it by limiting free usage. Get sponsorship. By limiting the number of classes that you can plan you are limiting the number of people that are going to use it - it becomes a pain in the backside to build, save, delete, build, save delete, etc. People aren't going to sign up for something that has limited short term use.
Kevin found Mega Seating Plan:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“time making seating plans”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“time saving”
- Moderately improves school processes“saves time”
- Does not improve behaviour or wellbeing
Meghan
Teacher
Used Mega Seating Plan occasionally for 1-2 years
Jun 2024
Meghan found Mega Seating Plan:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“I use to need to make paper maps or create moveable boxes to figure out seating plans. Now I can just move students with a mouse click.”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“Other than allowing me to move students to spaces more appropriate for their own focus, I haven't noticed”
- Does not significantly improve school processes
- Moderately improves behaviour or wellbeing“Though I can't program it so it avoids placing certain students together, it does allow me to easily move students to reduce disruptions”
Garry
Educator
Used Mega Seating Plan daily for 7–12 months
Jun 2024
Because Mega Seating Plan makes classroom management very effective and efficient
Garry found Mega Seating Plan:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Student are assigned seating by their performance”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency
- Significantly improves school processes“Students are more engaged”
- Significantly improves behaviour or wellbeing“Students are seated where they are less distracted”
Tanya
Teacher
Used Mega Seating Plan monthly for 1-2 years
Jun 2024
It’s easy to use and intuitive
Tanya found Mega Seating Plan:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Easy way to group students”
- Significantly improves school processes“Easy way to manage behaviors”
- Slightly improves behaviour or wellbeing
