Class Manager is a mobile application written by a teacher for teachers. It contains several tools for managing your classroom such as class rosters, seating charts and random picker. It serves as an addition to your Learning Management System.
- Add, modify, delete the students in a class
- Search for students by ID, first name or last name
- Create seating charts
- Randomly pick a student from a class
- Create groups based on group size or number of groups
- Ability to add notes to a student
- Bulk add students using a delimited file
Adding and Modifying Students
Each student must have a unique student ID. This field along with first name, last name and period are required.
A seat may be entered in the form of a capital letter followed by a single digit. The letter is the column and the digit is the set in that column.
Students can be deleted by tapping the “Delete” button on the student detail display.
Search
Students can be searched by first name, last name or ID. The search is not case sensitive. This can be useful in cases where you only have the ID or need to check which period a student is in.
Tapping the row on the results brings up the detail for that student.
Seating Charts
The dimensions of the seating chart can be changed in the Preferences tab. The default is 4 x 9 which is generally optimal for a phone. However, if you need more than 4 columns, the seating chart screen can be scrolled left and right.
Random Picker
The random picker selects a student at random. The app skips the last five selected by default. This number can be adjusted in the Preferences tab.
Groups
The Groups tab accepts a number that is how many groups you wish to create. The “Run’ button randomly assigns students in the period to groups and displays the results. After reviewing the list, you can save the grouping. The list can be found in your Documents folder. The file is named “G-<period>-<timestamp>.txt”. For example: G-7-1688898351.txt would be a group created for period 7. Any new save groups will have a higher timestamp.
Notes
Two notes can be added for each student. However, sensitive information should not be stored.
Bulk add and Export
The ClassMan app uses a database to store the information. It is a good practice to export the contacts periodically and copy them to a cloud account. In case your device is lost or broken, you can download that file to your Documents folder and import it using the “Load from File” button on the “DB Actions” tab.
Initial loading of the students can be a time consuming effort. You can bulk load them by creating a delimited text file using the vertical bar to separate the fields. The fields must be in the following order:
- Student ID
- First Name
- Last Name
- Grade
- Period
- Seat
- Preferred Name
- Note 1
- Note 2
Fields after period are optional.
110337|ANNE|SMITH|10|1|C8||Note 1|Note 2
In this example, Anne is added for grade 10 in period 1 but no preferred name is specified