From examination schedule to who sits where

Datesheets, hall allocation, seat plans and invigilator rosters built from the same examination the school already configured.

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What this usually looks like today

The datesheet is agreed in one spreadsheet. Seating is worked out in another. The invigilation roster is a third, produced by whoever has time, and the three are reconciled by reading them side by side.

Then a paper moves by a day. All three have to change, and whichever one is missed becomes the mistake somebody notices on the morning.

When all three come from the same examination, moving a paper moves everything that depends on it.

What it handles

Grouped by the job it does rather than listed as one long set of features.

Datesheets

Papers scheduled per examination, cloneable from the last session so nobody starts from a blank sheet.

Halls and rooms

Halls with capacity and dates, so a paper is never scheduled into a room that cannot hold the cohort.

Seat allocation

Automatic seating with manual override, including keeping candidates from the same class apart where you need to.

Invigilation rosters

Who is invigilating which hall on which date, drawn from staff availability rather than assigned by memory.

Printable outputs

The datesheet, the seating plan and the roster, exported for the noticeboard and the hall door.

Admit cards

Generated for candidates with their seat and schedule on them, from the same records.

Changes that propagate

Move a paper and the seating, roster and admit cards follow rather than needing three separate edits.

Published to students

Candidates see their own schedule and seat in their portal rather than crowding a noticeboard.

Coverage checks

Every paper has a hall, every hall has an invigilator, and the gaps are visible before the morning.

The cases most systems get wrong

The paper that moved. A date changes and three spreadsheets need updating. Whichever one is missed becomes the mistake discovered by a hall full of candidates.

The hall that cannot hold them. A cohort of 180 scheduled into a hall seating 150, because the seating plan was made after the datesheet was fixed.

The invigilator who is teaching. Assigned to a hall during a period they are timetabled to teach, because the roster was built without reading the timetable.

The candidate with no seat. A student admitted after the seating plan was drawn is not on it. They arrive to find no chair with their number.

These are the cases worth testing in a demo. Bring the messiest one you have.

Who touches it, and what they see

The same records, presented differently depending on the job.

The examination office

Builds the datesheet, allocates halls and seats, and rosters invigilators.

Invigilators

See their own duties and which hall they are in, without reading a wall chart.

Candidates

See their own schedule and seat number in their portal, and on their admit card.

Leadership

Whether every paper has a hall and an invigilator, before the morning it matters.

What it shares records with

The candidate list comes from the examination roll, which comes from the student record - so a student admitted in January is seated and one who left is not.

Invigilator availability reads the same timetable and leave records the institution already keeps. Halls are the same rooms the timetable uses. Admit cards are generated from the same seating.

That is why moving a paper is one change rather than three, and why nobody reconciles anything the night before.

Questions we get asked

If a paper moves, does the seating move with it?
Yes. The datesheet, seating and invigilation roster read the same examination, so moving a paper updates all three rather than leaving one of them wrong.
Can seats be allocated automatically?
Yes, with manual override, including keeping candidates from the same class apart where your policy requires it.
How are invigilators assigned?
From staff availability rather than from memory, so somebody is not rostered to a hall during a period they are timetabled to teach.
What about a student admitted after the seating was made?
The candidate list reads the current roll, so a late admission is seated rather than arriving to find no chair with their number.
Can we print the datesheet and seating plan?
Yes - the datesheet, the seating plan and the invigilation roster, for the noticeboard and the hall door.
Do candidates get admit cards?
Yes, generated from the same records with their schedule and seat on them, so the card and the hall agree.

Bring your seating rules

The classes that must be split, the hall that is awkwardly shaped, the invigilator who cannot cover period one. Test those.

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