Assign Easy

Inspiration

With social distancing, students can no longer sit one next to another and it is of utmost importance to make sure they maintain social distancing when attending classes. Therefore, how might we create an airtable block to make it easier for teachers or teaching assistants to assign seats.

What it does

We designed and developed an airtable block to make assigning of seats easy and quick for teachers! Our target audiences are teachers and teaching assistants. Assign Easy lets teachers to assign seats to their students with 6 feet distance and further mark their attendance. This is done by importing the list of students (names and their respective student ID), assigning seat numbers to the students, and finally sending out an email regarding the same.

How I built it

I built it exclusively using Airtable components. This was done to reduce the block’s dependency on more packages.

Challenges I ran into

The RecordCardList does not render if there is no Box component wrapper around it. This took quite some time to debug. It also took me some time to grasp the differences between useRecords and selectRecords.

What I learned

To trust the documentation, test fast and to have some sort of a higher level outline before starting.

What's next for Assign Easy

If given more time, we would want to go beyond the idea of just assigning seats and further make this concept more concrete to work for several businesses such as restaurants, workspace, event management, and so on. We hope you enjoy using our concept as much as we enjoyed making it!