How Seats are Counted

Your membership includes a set number of student places, or seats. Knowing what does and does not use one avoids buying more than you need.

The rule

One student uses one seat, however many of your classes they are in.

If a pupil studies two subjects with you and sits in two different classes, they still occupy a single seat. Seats are counted as the number of distinct students across the whole membership, not the total of your class registers added together.

So a membership with three classes of 30, where 12 pupils appear in two of them, uses 78 seats and not 90.

Teachers do not use seats

Teachers, including everyone on your teaching team, do not consume student places. You can add as many colleagues as you need without it affecting the number of pupils you can teach.

Where to see what you have

Open the Classes page. The blue bar at the top shows which membership you are looking at, and the line beneath it shows the size of your membership and its expiry date.

When you run out

Adding a student checks the whole membership, not the individual class. If every seat is taken, the add is refused even though the class you are adding to may look small.

Two ways forward:

1. Remove pupils who have left. A leaver keeps their seat until they are removed from every class in the membership.
2. Buy more seats. See Adding Seats. Seats bought mid-year run to your existing expiry date, so you are not paying for time you already have.

A note on moving classes

Moving a class from one membership to another is also seat-checked. The class can only move if the destination has enough free seats for everyone in it. See Moving Classes.

Screens in these guides use a demonstration account, so your own school name, courses and dates will be different.