# Laying out a lab room

> Academium Surepass Help › Computer Lab
> For: School Owner, School Admin, Centre Owner, Centre Admin · Server Edition, Client Edition
> Web page: https://helpcenter.academium.com.ng/academium-surepass/article/sp-laying-out-a-lab-room
> Last updated: 2026-10-06

The layout editor shows the room as a grid. Make it match the real room.

## Seats

- **Click an empty cell** to add a seat. Give it a **Seat Label** (such as A1), a **Serial Number** if you like, its **Status**, and choose the computer under **Assign Device**.
- **Click a seat** to edit or remove it.
- **Drag and drop** seats to move them.

### Faulty equipment

For each seat, mark the **monitor**, **mouse**, **keyboard** and **CPU** as **Good** or **Bad**, and describe the issue in **Notes**. A seat with anything marked Bad becomes **Maintenance** by itself and is not given to students.

## Aisles and exits

- **Walkways** adds aisles at the edges or between rows and columns, and sets how wide they are.
- Hover over an aisle strip to place an **exit** on it.
- Click the **Front** and **Back** labels to rename them, for example "Teacher's desk".

## Other tools

- **Resize Grid**: change the rows and columns (up to 10). Seats outside the new size are removed.
- **Clear**: **Clear PC assignments** keeps the seats but unlinks the computers; **Clear seats & PCs** empties the grid.
- **Undo** (Ctrl+Z) and **Redo** (Ctrl+Y).
- **Full Screen** hides the side panel.

Click **Save** when you are done. **Unsaved changes** reminds you.

## Auto Arrange: matching computers to seats

The quickest way to link each real computer to its seat.

1. Save the layout first.
2. Sit at the computer at **Seat 1** (top left) and click **Auto Arrange**, then **Start Auto Arrange**. This computer becomes Seat 1. If there are no seats yet, the grid is filled with seats first.
3. On every other lab computer, the sign-in page switches to **Location Mode**.
4. Walk to each computer in order. Click **Locate** to give that computer the next seat, or **Skip** to leave the seat empty.

Seats go row by row, left to right. The editor shows the progress, then **All seats arranged!** Click **Stop Auto Arrange** to finish early.

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