Student Centered Class Asst Documentation
This is the App's main menu:
On top of the app's main menu, there is an option to select the active class - this is the current class you are working with while using the app.
"View Seating Chart" will display a non-interactive seating chart.
Attendance Tracking, Homework Tracking, and Fire Drill Attendance all display an interactive (tappable) seating chart where you can mark the status. You can see previous days entries, and you can see multiple day summaries.
"Add New Class" option lets you name a new class, which will have its own students and seating charts.
"Class Details" lets you rename the class or edit class (not students) details.
"Add Students To Class" lets you either enter one student name at a time or import from a list in a "plain text (.txt)" or "Comm-Separated Value (.csv)." If CSV, have a "First Name" and "Last Name" column heading (and optionally a "short name" or "nick name", "middle name", "prefix", or "suffix" heading). Otherwise, for the text file, you should have one name per line. The name format can be "firstname lastname" or "lastname, firstname".
"Edit or Remove Student(s)" lets you either change a students name (i.e. correct spelling), delete the student(s), or manage student photos (optional use feature).
There's a "Manage Seating Chart" option that let's you do the initial seating assignments, reassign seats (drag and drop to swap seating assignments), or change the layout of the seats (drag and drop to move the seats elsewhere on the seating chart freely). As a reminder, when customizing the seating chart layout, you "start" initially with rows and columns, but can drag to reposition the seats however you need. There is also a print seating chart option there.
"Delete This Class" will delete the class and all students/seating charts associated with it.
There is an option to backup to a file stored locally on your device - that file can be accessed from other apps (such as e-mail) for purposes of backing it elsewhere or transferring it to another device. The restore option replaces any existing data with the data in the backup file.
Interactive seating charts let you tap seats to change assigned color codes. The key is on the bottom, and the values are used in the multiday summary. There is now also a non-interactive seating chart.
" Pick a Student at Random" will display the name of one student, chosen semi-randomly. It's worth noting that this will (1) not choose absent students, and (2) try not to pick any students more than other students over the course of any one day.
"Group Students at Random" lets you optionally select whether to include absent students, and let's you decide whether you want some number of students per group or some number of groups. It will generate the groups, they can be printed or copied (for pasting in other apps) and are saved in the app if you want to go back to them. You can also edit any group by using drag and drop of the student names to swap places in groups.
