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TUGRAZonline is an instance of CAMPUSonline which is used for campus data management.

When you are organizing exams using this system, you might be interested in deriving randomized seating plans. This is for you :-)

Usage

(status of this output: 2018-02-25)

./GenerateSeatingPlan.py --help
Usage:
         GenerateSeatingPlan.py --lr KNOWN_ROOM STUDENTS.csv

GenerateSeatingPlan.py takes a CAMPUSonline CSV file including the students
attending an exam and generates a randomized seating plan for a specific
lecture room.

Several things can be manipulated according to your needs.

  :URL:        https://github.com/novoid/GenerateSeatingplan.py
  :copyright:  (c) 2010 and later by Karl Voit <[email protected]>
  :license:    GPL v2 or any later version
  :bugreports: https://github.com/novoid/GenerateSeatingplan.py/issues

Run GenerateSeatingPlan.py --help for usage hints


Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c FILE, --csvfile=FILE
                        CSV file of students in CAMPUSonline format. You can
                        add columns but original header line is required.
  --lr=NAME, --lecture-room=NAME
                        the short name of a known lecture room. so far,
                        following lecture rooms are supported: HS_i1 HS_i7
                        HS_i11 HS_i12 HS_i13 HS_i14 HS_A HS_B HS_D HS_G HS_H
                        HS_P1 HS_VI HS_I test1
  --sa=INT, --students_adjoined=INT
                        that many students are sitting right beneath each
                        other before the next empty seat(s)
  --ra=INT, --filled_rows_adjoined=INT
                        that many rows are being filled with students before
                        the next empty row(s)
  --fs=INT, --free_seats_to_separate=INT
                        that many seats are empty before the next student sits
  --fr=INT, --free_rows_to_separate=INT
                        that many rows are empty before the next row is filled
  -s FLOAT, --seed=FLOAT
                        sets random seed for shuffling students (default 0.0)
  -p, --pdf             generates a PDF file with alphabetical student names
                        and seating (requires pdflatex with savetrees,
                        longtable, hyperref, and KOMA)
  -t, --table           generates a seating plan in (HTML) table format.
  -u, --tableturn       Writes the table upside down (view for lecturer).
                        Might not work with all browsers.
  -v, --verbose         enable verbose mode
  -q, --quiet           do not output anything but just errors on console
  --checklist           creates a list of students orderd by seat
  --fff                 fills students to free seats beginning with the front
                        row

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