Clarify How to Select Alternate/Etc Seating

[cycomachead]

We shouldn't have to specify 'alternateseating' as an attribute to for the student when assigning seats

[Reimirno]

Currently, for alternate seating, we would need to:

1. Manually label certain seats of a room "alt" label.
2. Make sure all students prefer "alt" label.
   Which is kind of not convenient.

I hope there is an algorithmic way to determine alternate seating directly.

[cycomachead]

For 1, I think manually specifying the seat map layout makes sense.
For 2: Bulk edits and or a function which says "Assign with a default attribute" or something might work around this

[Reimirno]

For 1, I think manually specifying the seat map layout makes sense. For 2: Bulk edits and or a function which says "Assign with a default attribute" or something might work around this

That we already have. See #47

Is that feature sufficient? If so I will close this issue.

[cycomachead]

Hmm. I think but let me see

What I was imagining for ease would be:

• student prefs are persisted with the specific data (right, left, wheelchair, etc)
• data about a layout type is only applied when the assignment step

This would potentially make it easier to test out different layouts

[Reimirno]

Hmm. I think but let me see

What I was imagining for ease would be:

• student prefs are persisted with the specific data (right, left, wheelchair, etc)
• data about a layout type is only applied when the assignment step

This would potentially make it easier to test out different layouts

What about having a course-wide preferences/avoids? Instead of just student-level preference/avoids.
That course-wide preferences/avoids do not persist or link to specific student and needs to be entered before you click "assign". and those attributes are kinda just added to all students and work the same way as student-level preferences.