Random seating generator
Press Draw for a seating plan
Paste the names and choose how many seats there are per row. The list is shuffled and laid out row by row, with any empty seats at the end so the plan reads like the actual room.
How to make a seating plan
Random seating is a blunt instrument and that is usually the point; it breaks up the seating habits that form in the first week without anyone having to be singled out. It is worth being clear about what it will not do: it has no idea who should be near the front, who works badly together, or who needs to be next to a window. Draw again if a row looks wrong; the tool has no opinion about it either way.
Questions
They are left at the end of the last row rather than scattered, so the plan matches how a room fills up.
Not automatically. Redraw, or place those two by hand afterwards.
Yes; use the seed box. The same seed and list always produce the same plan.
No, every row is the same width. Run it once per section for an irregular room.
No. It stays in the page and is gone when you close it.