Using a classroom seat map provides two distinct benefits for Learning Catalytics sessions:
For Instructor-Led Synchronous sessions, both classroom-based and online, you can use seating proximity as a criterion for creating groups for peer learning in that session.
Video: Adding a classroom seat map
Once a seat map is added for a classroom at your institution, it doesn't need to be created again. You can use a seat map added by someone else, and vice versa. And you can associate a classroom with an unlimited number of Learning Catalytics courses.
If you associate your Learning Catalytics course with a seat map, students see the seat map on their devices when they join a session, and they are asked to tap or click the seat they are occupying for that session. (They don't need to sit in the same seat for every session.)
Be sure to observe the back of room (top) and front of room (bottom) orientation when you create the seat map, and include space for aisles in the classroom so classroom-based students can easily locate their seats in the seat map.
If seats are numbered in the physical classroom, you can add those numbers to ensure that students identify their seats accurately.
At the top of the instructor console, click Classrooms.
Click Next step.
Tips:
On the Build Classroom Seat Map page, observe the back/front orientation in the editing space.
To add a seat, click + Add seat.
To add a block of seats, specify the block dimensions, and then click + Add block.
To move one seat, click and drag the seat to a new position.
To move a group of seats:
Click an unused area of the edit space and drag across the seats to be moved.
Notes:
Click anywhere in the highlighted group and drag the whole group to a new position.
Click x Remove, which appears above the editing space.
To help students identify their seat numbers in a large classroom with numbered seats, you can include those numbers in the seat map.
In the Seat number box that appears above the editing space, enter an alphanumeric identifier that students will see on the seat itself.
At the top of the instructor console, click Courses, and then select the course.
From the My Courses list, click the course name to open it, and then click Settings.
Important: Be careful not to delete a seat map that someone else might be using!
If you want to delete an experiment or trial seat map, follow these steps:
At the top of the instructor console, click Classrooms.
Student Help for Learning Catalytics (Click Back to return to Instructor Help.)